Recent content by Steve in Oz

I think you're right about the AA filter in the D750 vs no AA filter in D7200. The Z50ii with the same sensor as the D500 and no AA filter could be a good 'back for your bucks' body.

I have a D7200 and D750, both 24mp. With my aircraft shots, the more 'packed in' pixels of the D7200 give a slight edge on fine details such as rivets, pitots and lettering when compared to my D750... but you need to zoom in to 100% to really see the difference. The extra 'reach' of the DX...

Taking a slight detour on this... the D7200 has (I think) a higher pixel density than any Nikon FX, DX or mirrorless body currently available. Of course, there's more to camera performance than pixel density and at some point the D7200 will probably be overtaken - but an interesting little...

I’h going to the UK later this year but don’t want to lug my 70-200 f4 for one day of plane-spotting, so I’ll take my D750, 16-35 f4 and 24-120 f4… and my D7200 body but only use it for aircraft with the 24-120.

Circling back to this, I tried the 24-120 f4 with the D7200 again over the weekend in good lighting conditions - it performed really well. What I was doing wrong originally, I have no idea. Very happy with this combination.

No... I did consider that, but I'm not sure what then happens when I change lenses on the D7200 - all my other FX lenses are giving me good IQ on the D7200.

I have a D7200 and D750 and a number of DX and FX lenses and often use FX lenses (80-200 f2.8, 50mm f1.8G, 85mm f1.8G) on the D7200 for extra 'reach' and get good results. I tried the 24-120 f4 which usually 'lives' on the D750 on the D7200 recently and I found the results to be...

You're quite right: it would be an 'incremental' upgrade. I like the level of detail the D7200 provides, like on the nose wheel of that B787. The D750 falls very, very slightly short of the D7200 on that, but unless you're specifically looking for that level of detail it's not noticeable. Of...

I do okay...

I'm sure it's been canvassed plenty of times before... the D7200 has a pixel density of 6.62 mp/sqcm. That gives the D7200 a higher pixel density than the FX format D810 (4.22 mp/sqcm) and D850 (5.32 mp/sqcm). Putting aside things like low-light, high ISO performance, the D500 at 5.68 mp/sqcm...

My primary bodies are the D7200 for telephoto work and the D750 for 'corporate' use... but very little of my work goes to print of any kind - it pretty much all goes online. On that basis, is the 36mp of the D810 going to be of any real benefit compared to the 24mp I'm currently using?

I finally had some good conditions to use the 70-300 VR. I am genuinely impressed that a lens I bought for AUD150 can produce images of this quality. There a few caveats, for sure: a lens with a widest aperture of f6.3 will need plenty of light to really perform (these are both a f8), and...

Air New Zealand Boeing 787 in 'All Black' paintwork, on approach to Perth Airport, Western Australia. D750 with 135mm f2.8 Ai manual focus lens.

I today did a 'corporate portraits' photo shoot using the D750 with the 16-35 f4 and the D7200 with the 16-80 f2.8/4. Both were set to 14-bit raw with lossless compression. The client requested all images at full resolution and uncropped, so 6000 x 4000 from both bodies. Once I'd processed...

It's quite confounding. The image below is from the D7200, with matrix metering, and again straight out of Capture NX-D. The only difference is that picture control was set to 'standard'. In this case, noticeably (though not seriously) overexposed. A different time of day (and a different time...