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review: High-ISO performance – Nikon D4S / D4 / D3s / D610 / D700

June 10, 2014 Neil vN 15 Comments

review: High-ISO performance Nikon D4S / D4 / D3s / D610 / D700

Judging image quality between different cameras, is most often quite subjective when we have equal glass with each camera. The reason for this is that the pixel count has an effect. For example, how do you compare the high-ISO noise performance of the 36 megapixel D800 vs the 12 megapixel D3? You can't just simply zoom in to 100% and go by that. You would have to print to a specific size, or at least down-size the D800 image to 12 megapixels to fairly evaluate the images. So there's a bit of a murky area here in fairly  Read more inside...

review: Nikon D4S auto-focus / AF performance

April 24, 2014 Neil vN 19 Comments

review: Nikon D4S auto-focus / AF performance

The Nikon D4s  (B&H / Amazon) updates the already-awesome Nikon D4. The short summary lists some improvements, which while they may appear incremental, overall make for a solid new release by Nikon: - a newly designed sensor, offering better high-ISO performance, - an additional AF mode has been added - Group Area AF - for more accurate subject tracking, - 11 fps continuous shooting with continuous AE/AF (compared to the 10 fps of the D4) - 'small' Raw size of 8 Mpx, - 1080/60p video - faster processing with the new  Read more inside...

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