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D800E Full Review *Video Review*
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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 141321" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>There is <em>so much more </em>to an outstanding photograph than resolution or sharpness. In portraiture, super high resolving power is <em>not </em>an atribute, quite to the contrary, especially when photographing women, and I have been doing it for over 25 years. When photographing women with my Hasselblad and a very high resolving film like Kodak TMAX-100, I have to print through a<em> Cokin diffusion filter </em>because the images are <em>too sharp</em>. No woman wants to see every single little peach fuzz hair on their chin or above their lip. The same is true with the D700. The portriture I do with it is usually blurred slightly in PS using gaussian blur for the very same reasons. One of the things I have seen come out of digital photography is a near obsession by so many people on the technicalities of their equipment rather than the art or aesthetics of the final output. Back in the days when there was nothing but film, the emphasis by serious photographers was on the aesthetics of final print rather than how many megapixels their camera's sensor had. That is something I still adhere to, but as you said, to each their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 141321, member: 12827"] There is [I]so much more [/I]to an outstanding photograph than resolution or sharpness. In portraiture, super high resolving power is [I]not [/I]an atribute, quite to the contrary, especially when photographing women, and I have been doing it for over 25 years. When photographing women with my Hasselblad and a very high resolving film like Kodak TMAX-100, I have to print through a[I] Cokin diffusion filter [/I]because the images are [I]too sharp[/I]. No woman wants to see every single little peach fuzz hair on their chin or above their lip. The same is true with the D700. The portriture I do with it is usually blurred slightly in PS using gaussian blur for the very same reasons. One of the things I have seen come out of digital photography is a near obsession by so many people on the technicalities of their equipment rather than the art or aesthetics of the final output. Back in the days when there was nothing but film, the emphasis by serious photographers was on the aesthetics of final print rather than how many megapixels their camera's sensor had. That is something I still adhere to, but as you said, to each their own. [/QUOTE]
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