Nikon D810 or D750
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Brian Padraig O'Connor
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I think this answer seals the deal for the D750. I want to thank everyone for their input. It has made it a lot easier to make a decision with good info and opinions. I am looking forward to participating on this forum to gain new information on shooting with great Nikon cameras.
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Brian Padraig O'Connor
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Brian Padraig O'Connor
Brian Padraig O'Connor
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I think if I get the D750 I will send it out right away and get the AA filter removed. I've seen some pics of the difference with and without the AA filter and I think it's for me.
Remember that you throw out your warranty when doing. First shoot it normal for a while until you know everything is fine with the cam.
Brian Padraig O'Connor
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Good Idea, Thanks
Horoscope Fish
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If you're going to have the OLPF removed you might want to consider buying a grey-market camera and a third-party warranty. You'll wind up with a better warranty and be hundreds of dollars ahead. Hundreds of dollars that could pay for having the OLPF removed.
I mean, I'm not saying that's what I did, I'm just tossing that out there as one possible path.
Yup... That's all I'm sayin'.
One possible path.
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Best advice from [MENTION=31330]J-see[/MENTION] and best suggestion from [MENTION=13090]Horoscope Fish[/MENTION], in my opinion. The grey market body + third party warranty is definitely the way to go if you're going to get the OLPF removed straight away. That's another sticky point thats slightly hanging me up from sending mine out for the service.
Brian Padraig O'Connor
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I've had a change of heart and will hold off having the AA filter removed. Like J-See said, I might like the results with the AA filter. It's $400.00 that I can hold to, so I'll shoot it for a while and see how I like the images.
Horoscope Fish
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Oh you'll like the images, I have no doubt about that. I sure did. But I also knew it could do better. I'm sure I'd like the images I got out of a D800, too, but I think there's a reason they came out with the D800e as well. If you're going to have it done you should really do your research and understand what you're having removed, why it was installed in the first place and why you want it removed.
I will say I notice sharpness is improved across the board and the need for sharpening is post is significantly reduced, but I also use some pretty top-end glass. If you don't your mileage will probably vary significantly. One big difference I notice comes at lower apertures (e.g. f/16, f/22) where diffraction becomes a very real issue; I now use f/22 with reckless abandon, but that's me and my shooting. You should also consider how long you think you're going to have your D750. Are you going to be switching bodies in a few years or do you plan on holding on your D750 for several years?
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Brian Padraig O'Connor
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Thanks for the info Paul. I have good glass and I will probably hold on to this camera for a couple of years. I'm planning on buying some Primes for Night Photography and just walking around. If money wasn't the object, which would you have bought, the D810 or D750? One minute I say I want the D750 and I'll have the AA filter removed, the next I want the D810 and the extra megapixels. I'm gun shy about the D810 because I bought the D800 the minute it came out. I had it two weeks and half of my pictures were soft and I couldn't figure out why. I had a VR lens and they still came out soft so I returned it. It wasn't till much later that I heard about sensor blur. No one said a thing about it when the D800 first came out. I'm just concerned because I hand hold the camera for 95% of my picture taking. The Nikon rep at a camera show I went to said just shoot focal length=shutter speed.
Brian Padraig O'Connor
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I don't do a lot of Night Photography bur when I do I don''t use High ISO. I usually stay around 100 ISO. I'm going to a camera store today and look and pick up both models. I want to buy once without buyers remorse. That's why I'm still considering the D810.
They're both very capable cams and in term of quality are pretty close throughout most of their range. The D810 is at its best when you stick to 64 ISO. The moment light forces me to go three stops beyond 64, I switch to the D750. Also keep in mind the D810 isn't an amazing burst-cam. The buffer fills up quickly when shooting bursts at high quality. And you have some serious files to upload and process which can be time and memory consuming.
Horoscope Fish
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Money wasn't the deciding factor, the camera was. I've been waiting for Nikon to release the right (for me) FX body for a while and the D8xx series were not what I wanted; the D750 was. Once that decision was made, finding the best deal and extended warranty became the next priority.
One of the reasons I decided the D8xx series was not the camera for me. I consider them rather specialized and I'm not a specialized photographer, at least not yet; I'm what I call a "generalist" in that I don't have a specific type of photography that I do, or a legitimate photographic "style" I can call my own. The D750 serves me well for those very reasons. Remember also that, "Content is King". Always has been, always will be.
I'm sure you'll be happy with the camera you settle on, regardless.
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Brian Padraig O'Connor
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Thanks Paul for your input. I think you are right that the D810 is a more specialized camera. I went to the camera store and compared the D750 to the D810 side by side just to see the difference and the D810 suits me better. I guess I would be more of a specialized shooter since 95% of my time is spent on Landscape Photography. So I have decided it's going to be the D810. I have a back-up camera that has fast shutter speed for sports so I will be covered across the board. Now I will need to buy a bigger external hard drive for the bigger files.
Horoscope Fish
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Pics, or it didn't happen.
All kidding aside, congats! lucky you, being able to compare both bodies in your hands like that, side by side. The D810 is a beast of a camera and if I was a pure landscape shooter, I'd own one, hands down.
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Whiskeyman
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Unless it is already maxed out, you'll want, no, make that you'll need more RAM to go with the camera and hard drive. Just going from a 12.x kMP camera to a 24.2 kMP proved that to me...
That's no lie! I built my current computer about 5 years ago now and I decided then to put 16gb in it, darn good thing I did too. When you've got PS and LR both open with multiple RAW files I can use up all 16gb's if I try!
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I love my D750. I joined the D810 club to use for my fashion/editorial shots, portraits etc. For any low-light shooting I will use the D750 Get both if you can I sold my back-up Fuji Xt1 and some other stuff I did not use much to fund this purchase.
I just love Nikon too much.
Get both if you can I sold my back-up Fuji Xt1 and some other stuff I did not use much to fund this purchase.I just love Nikon too much.
Craig Rogers
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I'm not so sure I agree with that statement, I'd say the D810 is much more of a versatile camera and the reason I chose it over the D750.
My photography is a mixture of Wildlife and Nature which includes both landscape and night time.
I have the extra pixels for flexibility with cropping, the high pixels for very detailed landscapes, ISO64. I do sacrifice a little on the high ISO that the D750 gives, but not enough of a concern to drop the number of dots for the wildlife. I do shoot up to about ISO4000 without having to worry and DXO Optics makes life a lot easier.
Personally for me, it wasn't the fact that the D810 didn't perform well at high ISO, it was the fact that Adobe's RAW converter isn't great at processing them, any shot I do at ISO1200 and above, I always run through DXO Optics as it comes out clean. Adobe (LR and Photoshop) really fails as a D810 converter.
I agree though, it was a real tough decision against 2 amazing bodies, but it was the number of dots that made me go for the D810.
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