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<p>I just put together a few quick, unscientific outdoor examples comparing D750 to D700.<br> D750 showing the dreaded banded flare on top: <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p556513737/h187c2050#h187c2050">link 1</a>.<br> D700 doing the same: <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p556513737/h187c2050#h9431d44">link 2</a>.<br> Notice the colorful nature of the flare with D750 (in this case at least).<br> I think banding+flare at the bottom is better controlled with D750. Here is an actual D700 photo lost to bottom-banding and camera-induced flare (to the right of the vertical image): <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p862246007/hbb36d85#h1c1e2979">link 3</a>.<br> Putting the light source at the edge, D750 seems to do fine: <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p556513737/h187c2050#h63bd4a2">link 4</a>. But tilt the camera down a little, and we have: <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p556513737/h187c2050#hb2d422e">link 5</a>. So for a specific angle we end up with strong purple fringing. Except for this oddity I feel that sensor blooming is relatively well-controlled in general. Here is a sample of D700's response: <a href="http://www.delic.photography/p556513737/h187c2050#h96a778a">link 6</a>.<br> Personally, I am more worried about the color fringing since this may create problems in blue/dark hour photography. I'd be curious to hear opinions on this.</p> <p> </p>

<p>I have seen this sort of banded flare happen with D700, as well. In fact, today I was able to create more or less identical images with both D700 and D750. Shooting into low sun (minimal contrast, totally ugly set-up), the banding occurred just once. Tilt the camera up or down ever so slightly, and it is gone. In 5+ years with D700, I have lost only one image out of about 50K in actual photography to this. YMMV of course.<br /> Check out Nasim Mansurov's website for demos of the effect with various Nikon cameras. There are samples from Canon and Leica, too (need to scroll down to reader comments for Leica). I was not allowed to copy the link here.<br /> I wouldn't be surprised if all AF cameras exhibited this phenomenon.</p>