anthony_decarlo1

<p>Eric, <br> Sorry I quoted a single test point (not a statistic, that's for politicians and sales), but not sorry you commented. In the DxO measurement area there are sets of full SNR plots for 9 or 10 different ISO values. As it turns out, the D750 is roughly a bit over 3 db most samples for each location on each of the 9 graphs. 3db would be 2x, a bit over 3db is somewhat over 2x. You correct, it tells me nothing about how this holds at different shutter speeds but is does tell me that the D750 will give me better noise performance at any given ISO. I am willing to believe that a greater than 2X value in DxO's test results have noticeable results in the real world. Since they don't fully disclose their test setup and testing procedure, you should of course remain skeptical.<br> Personally, I am willing to trade a higher resolution shot for some ISO. This causes me to carry a lens with a larger aperture or settling for a slower shutter speed; I usually carry a monopod to help the slower shutter If quality telephoto lenses were made for crop sensor cameras, they could be faster at the same size and weight, then there would be much less reason to even consider a full frame.<br> Tony D</p>

<p> The reason I keep buying DX SLRs is to use for sports and wildlife, for me they are specifically for birding. A true comparison for me would be a D7X00 versus the D750, but with the D750 using a 1.4x multiplier, it would need that to keep up. That would get me almost as close but of course that's halving the light at the D750 sensor. Considering the D750 sensor is 2.4 times bigger, it should still show some small advantage, about 1.2x.<br> If there was a full frame Nikon with a similar pixel pitch, 57 Mpixels, I'd go for that.<br> By the way the DxO ISO rating for the D750 (with a sensor 2.4 times the size of a DX) is 2.35 times higher than the D7100, makes sense right?<br> Some people claim the D7XXX cameras are small compared a professional model, I don't want a large heave camera dangling off the back of my lens. I'm usually holding one hand on a large heavy lens, the other hand is just spinning dials and snapping the shutter.</p>

<p>- earlier, the RAW converted to JPEG without pother processing was fine ... thanks again.<br> Tony</p>

<p>First, thank you for taking time out to post, it's always good to a get first hand opinion and hard information from a user with photos to compare. Although to me the dark watch band is very telling, I tend to agree with another post or two, we can't tell to what extent this is due to updated in-camera processing. Sorry to be asking but if you could provide a crop of the raw images <em>without any processing</em> except the cropping, that would be great. If you would like the crops copied and returned after running DxO prime, I can run that for you.<br> Thanks in advance, Tony</p>