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It felt (in terms of autofocus) like a D4s in a smaller form factor. Having just finished a review of the D4s, I was struck by how similarly the D810 performed. The sluggish autofocus system has been replaced with the same incredible 51-point Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus system as found in the Nikon D4s, providing it with astoundingly fast focus and the ability to lock onto even fast-moving erratic subjects.
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How well the D810 performs in the face of moiré-prone scenes will naturally be a major point of attention, and I’ll address the moiré results in our image quality section below. Ultimate sharpness, but the risk of moiré occurring. Instead of tweaking the OLPF, the D810 has removed it entirely. The Nikon D800 included an OLPF, as did the D800E, though the D800E included technology to re-sharpen the image that had been softened by the OLPF. For a camera like the D800 where sharpness and resolution are the selling point, any reduction in sharpness is undesirable. The double-edged sword of reducing moiré by blurring the image is obviously that the resulting image is slightly blurred. In order to reduce the occurrence of moiré, digital cameras traditionally use an Optical Low Pass Filter (OLPF)-a technical name for a piece of glass that slightly blurs the light hitting the sensor in order to break up the sharp symmetry that causes the effect. Many common fabric patterns will create a moiré in an image as will common building elements such as bricks, grating and window treatments like Venetian blinds. For an architectural or fashion photographer, moirés are a nightmare. Moiré is visible to the human eye (usually occurring when someone wears a tight pinstripe fabric) but is accentuated by digital imaging sensors. Less is Moiréĭigital cameras are prone to an optical issue called “moiré” that’s painfully visible where closely spaced lines or geometric shapes appear to blend together creating an optical illusion of waves.
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The D810 is also one of the DSLR cameras on the market to have dropped the “anti-aliasing” filter that has been an integral part of digital photography since its inception, and have done so with great success, making the D810 a milestone camera in terms of image sharpness and resolution. A photographer that needed an occasional high-resolution studio shot didn’t need to shell out $20,000 or more to buy a medium-format body and lenses. Still, the D800 and the simultaneously released D800E were breakthrough cameras because they provided super-high resolution images at a price less than the D4 (and vastly less than medium format) and gave photographers an alternative to medium format that maximized their lens inventory.
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The D800 rendered brightly lit scenes incredibly well, but as the light levels dropped and the ISO started to rise, the camera produced distractingly grainy images.
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The autofocus was slower than Nikon’s professional D4, which was released just a month earlier, and the buffer filled up after just a few shots, making it impractical for sports photography or other high-paced situations. It was not, many agreed, a fast or quiet camera.
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Thanks to its ability to use the full range of Nikkor and Nikon-compatible lenses, the D800 was a hit with portrait shooters, wedding photographers and architectural photographers everywhere. When Nikon introduced the D800 in 2012, it challenged not only the existing DSLRs of the time but also medium format digital cameras with a sensor that clocked in at over 30 megapixels.