If you're shooting with a 500mm lens with a 1.4x attached, at dusk, do you have enough shutter speed to take a clean shot with the lens barrel resting on a bean bag over a rock? The (global) exposure chosen by the camera is certainly scene-dependent (but for your tests that doesn't matter because you are interested in the shape of the curve, not its precise location on the horizontal axis), so, I am wondering whether the the global tone curve could also be scene dependent (if one goes to the trouble of doing local adjustments, as the in-camera processing does, a seasoned HDR image editor, as in human editor, will certainly adjust global and local tone curves depending on the scene). Also, what is a Normal Photographer? Amazon Marketplace occasion. As this page is copyrighted and formally registered, it is unlawful to make copies, especially in the form of printouts for personal use. Probably the biggest benefit of Expeed 4 is a wider ISO range, which now tops out at a whopping 409,600 (this is the Hi4 setting). I shot film for decades, and was glad to put it aside and take up digital. The D4S offers a number of improvements over its predecessor including a new image sensor, new image processor, new battery, improved ergonomics and expanded ISO range. I have a D3s and have shot above 3000 in low light conditions and the results are clean. Also allows more batteries to be put inside the camera for longer shooting before running out of juice. Who considers buying a D4s cares much about any of this? I want to preface this by saying that I am only going to show off one noise test that was photographed in my apartment against a wall – every other image will be on location, in various types of light, at various ISOs. EV and dynamic range are not 'bull' or 'maddening' as long as you understand what's being tested in each test. If the need arises for a more demanding situation, RAW is but a button press/command dial spin away. All content, design, and layout are Copyright © 1998 - 2020 Digital Photography Review All Rights Reserved. Is there a Reason why the fresh Nikon D4S has less DR as a 6 Years old FinePix S5 Pro ? However in attempting to assert the empirical'ness' of their tests results they go to length to state the nature of the data. Furthermore, it can focus with a 200-400 plus a 2x converter at F8 under any condition, lighting fast and with razor sharp fidelity, a tough test which the D800 can do about, at best 50% of the time at best. Nikon D4S Review – Features If you’re a professional sports photographer, the performance of your camera when shooting at high speeds is always going to be an area of focus. Who doesn't know not everything is free. Optional EH-6b AC adapter and EP-6 connector. Once a year it's serviced by Nikon Osaka and it's stil working like since the day I bought it. The D4S will allow ISO adjustments during video shooting. ya.. what do the staff do all day? No I don't claim to have used every feature of every Nikon. No? End of story. Nice first impression review on the Nikon though. The dynamic range is thereby decreased in 0 and 255 areas. I don't believe your claims about the Panasonic, flash or no. MTF Services is selling already-converted lenses at the moment but plans to offer a conversion service for existing lenses next year. Tamron has announced its 17-70mm F2.8 Di III-A VC RXD lens for Sony APS-C bodies. 5) Place a tripod at the distance so the face and the resolution table would cover 80% of the height of the frame in portrait orientation at 70mm-equivalent at the closest point of the carousel's rotation. @LukeThe problem with throwing around DxO tests as evidence of this or that, is you have to understand what they test first. (NOT two CF slots). Le capteur amélioré de lappareil photo D4S offre une qualité dimage exceptionnelle. They supply the lenses use in Kodak cameras. The Nikon D4s's 3.2" screen is larger than average and its resolution is up to the class standarts. The D800e will be better for landscapes also but if your main focus is sports, then the D3s and D4 are the best choices for your camera and you will still be able to get pretty good landscapes. Just spend your money on a camera you feel comparable with and have a bunch of lenses with it and have a good time. It's not just ten frames or more; the D4s can keep this up longer than you can, running for up to twenty continuous seconds, making 210 full-resolution images in a burst. Going from a pro body, to the smaller bodies for me was a let down in many respects. You have had possibility to that for years with Olympus bodies, probably from early 2000. i read that on here once. Even the optically best Canikon lenses just aren't very good. Baby's first cry out of the womb? And then done a tiny bit of street shooting with the Nikon D800 separately. I believe we'd essentially need to place a wedge (or some other easily quantifiable test chart) with tones covering the entire DR of the sensor in the scene itself, for various scenes. Please quote me accurately. Once again, the D4S employs a system used in the D4 – in this case, Advanced Multi-CAM 3500FX autofocus, which has 51 points and 3D tracking. You can purchase the 56mm F1.4 now, while the 33mm F1.4 lens is available to pre-order. In the getting ever shorter term NONE of this matters as smart phones continue to kill off camera sales…. The Nikon D4 features a 16.2MP sensor and great low-light shooting capabilities. I disappointed to the point of not coming here for information anymore when the new top Nikon gets all the space and the 1DX gets nothing. There are Swarovski 35mm camera lenses? There's been no improvement in whatever limited the D4 to 20 minutes of video recording: the D4s hits a similar limit, with high bitrate 60p restricting the camera to just 10 minutes of footage capture. There you go again, opining on things you haven't used. Correct. That's the buffer choking after only 3 seconds… so let's think real-world; you have 5 people in rapid succession coming across the finish line (you get the point). Does anyone know if the full review will have picture comparison with the older versions (D3 and D3s) or have they updated the pics/scene so it's not doable? Low res high sensitivity, great balanced 24mp offerings and hiRes 36mp models. They themselves state that the data they use is the raw file directly off the sensor before any in-camera processing. "S" models have never been anything about which to get excited; they are the Same thing (why Nikon uses an "S") as the previous model with a few added tweaks which you may or may not find life-changing. Flagship Nikon D4S DSLR may just be the best to date. With a CIPA rating of 3,020 images per charge (up from the D4's 2,600 shots), it has a more than respectable battery life. Il améliore considérablement le rendu dimage et la sensibilité et permet lobtention de cadences de prise de vue supérieures lors de la réalisation de vidéos. In the hands of the pro for whom it's designed, it will crank out more great photos faster than anything. The D4s is light years ahead of the 5d3 as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps we could be better about not only explaining what our test is but also what it isn't. @noirdesir: I'm having trouble seeing how testing this would be 'relatively easy' - would love to hear your thoughts. @HowaboutRAW:High ISO is just a gimmick. Give this camera what I need, absolutely. High ISO performance, speed, continuous shooting, built like a tank, focus ability, battery life. Both are DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that are equipped with a full frame sensor. Check out more of his work and peek inside his camera bag. In JPEG, it's roughly within our margin of error. These are distortion corrections you can't even undo in ACR (b/c ACR honors them), only by using dcraw... so there's some merit to desiring DxO to include these corrections in their tests. As expected, the D4s runs for thousands of shots on a charge. takes forever if ever to review or do testings? Both cameras have Full frame sensors but Nikon D5 has a 21.0 MP and Nikon D4s has a 16.0 MP resolution. There is no comparison to the amateur D800, D800E and Canon 5D Mark III, which will only become apparent as you draw the D4s and shoot it for yourself in the field. It costs you nothing, and is this site's, and thus my family's, biggest source of support. Digital Life, The Straits Times. I forgot to mention - even though ADL Extra High 2 digs down to a RAW value of ~1 and maps that to 5,5,5 in the JPEG, the SNR at a RAW value of 1 was ~0.8. Nikon D4S review – Autofocus. Find out if Nikon's new full frame shooting D4S fits the bill. The D4 was a step back from the performance of the D3s. The D800 is not a serious high ISO camera. But it isn't anymore about fast situation. I use middle one, what gives me that in typical hars shooting environment I only get blown out sun circle on the sky, all shadows possibility to recover to expected values as exposure range is so wide and dynamic range stay very wide in each ISO step. Shooting at 11 frames per second is something of a revelation when you’re used to the D800 clunking along at just 4 frames per second. EG: Sony and Samsung aren't getting much better high ISO performance out of 1 inch sensors with BSI than Aptina gets out of normally built 1 inch sensors. Nikon D5 Review | D5 VS D750 VS D4s. Nikon D4s + Nikon AF 135mm f/2D DC – AF-C 3D Tracking – f/2.0 1/1600s ISO 100. Here is your score. Well, DxO aren't journalists, they are a company that measures cameras and lenses to generate the data they need to provide the best raw conversion and lens corrections in their raw converter. It seems as if Nikon is following Apple's iPhone naming methods. But NE1 stating in ABSOLUTE terms that a JPEG is EVER better than a RAW post processed by a very skilled individual is showing a fair amount of ignorance of the Raw process and the Artistic and creative art of Raw processing. page as helpful as a book you might have had to buy or a workshop you may 3200 ISO doesn't give you that much latitude when you're shooting at dusk with a 300mm lens or longer, trying to coax as much shutter speed as you can possibly get from the camera. How many use the photos direct from the camera WITHOUT post processing (except perhaps for removing effect of dust specs or straightening)? The new D4s is Nikon's new flagship DSLR camera for professional photographers. In Dp review dynamic range above, it seems the opposite. review: Nikon D4S auto-focus / AF performance. LOL.... Yep. In this buying guide we’ve rounded up all the current interchangeable lens cameras costing around $2000 and recommended the best. I now take photos for my enjoyment, not for publication nor for money. Nikon's press release (development) January 2014. It's the episode you've been waiting for all year! This is a super heavy duty camera.. * wishlist *. It now shoots up to 59.94p or 50p video at 1920x1080, up from 29.97p. In truth, I admire the D4S as an awesome piece of engineering. Guys don't be suckered - BOTH Canon & Nikon could bring out VASTLY better cameras for the same or less money - but won't as they wish to DRIP FEED us improvements and get us to keep updating our kit. Try above 20,000. See Is It Worth It for more. I don't need a D4s but I think the technology involved in creating it is fascinating. Movie aficionados will also enjoy the ability to use Auto ISO when using manual exposure, audio range and level adjustment, and the ability to output uncompressed video over HDMI while simultaneously recording to a memory card. Shares. Post processing is important and changes depending on what you plan for the photo. But it surely can tame blown highlights in wide-DR scenes when light is plenty. I agree with David, my experience resonates with his. When was the Samsung NX30 announced and when fully reviewed here? Better than the yellow-green LCD of the old D4, the rear LCD is reasonably accurate. We're working on developing methodologies that can accurately measure it and also produce meaningful visualizations of it. Its an excellent camera,one of the best money can buy! It's cool how we can compare the flagships models from other manufacturers. You guys know who you are. That camera is the D4s which, on the surface, doesn't look much different than its predecessor. wt balance, buffer, focusing, bracketing, and a host of other features that a pro body makes seamless! The darker it is, the less people think you're actually taking pictures of any meaningful sort. Not the DR of raws. It sounds good, specs well - but it still handles, brakes, and corners like a Dodge Neon. All sorts of people have started to use ISO 6400 and above as the tech has improved over the last 10 years. Do you think I have the inclination to waste my money on camera gear? I am very happy with A7 and was happy with D600 and would have kept the Nikon had there not been the oil spill disaster. Big heavy bodies are useful for using big telephotos lenses and having lots of extra battery space. You took the words right out of my mouth. More detail can be seen in ISO25600 from the D4s pic. Overall there is only a small percentage of cameras for which DxO discovers NR applied to the raw data, and almost exclusively only for part of the ISO range. But they cannot stop people wanting to denigrate them (for their own satisfaction) from pretending that DxO's list of camera names shows the intention of DxO to pass of sensor rankings as camera rankings. The worst thing about the D4s is that Nikon put a video record button where the exposure mode button belongs, and moved the exposure mode button out of the way, further to the left of the shutter button. D4s looks to have nicer neutral colour for jpegs. Manufacturers often choose, at the cost of DR, to clip to black (which, in our tests, we define as RGB = 5,5,5 or SNR=2) well before the noise floor simply to render a JPEG with more 'pop' on typical low DR output devices (monitors/prints). And you know that. I didn't say anything about you spending money on either body. That makes them experts. @Mongoose777: Thanks for coming on here to defend your sponsor, I'm sure they appreciate it. Our results in these particular tests say nothing about the DR the sensors are capable of. Fuji caught up later though with higher dpi to 400 dpi. It's like taking a photo while handholding a desktop computer. . Good on them for the free revs. And the difference above is not vast - 1 stop at 6400. I am not saying it isn't useful (for JPEG shooters such as sports photographers and quite a lot of wedding/event shooters) but it is applying the incorrect definition to the measurement you are actually making. Much more research to do. Nikon D780 review. (SLR AF systems have never used the full speed of lenses; they look through anulii equivalent to about f/8 regardless of lens speed.). optically better than anything from nikon...? Nikon D4S review It's a great workhorse that can see in the dark, but you won't want to use ISO 409,600 very often By Angela Nicholson, Amy Davies 31 March 2014 Another pretty handy new feature is spot white balance. The D4s works great in low light and at high ISOs, but ISO 409,600 still looks like garbage. Well you chose to post a silly comment. It seems like you're comparing the two camera design teams' taste. The headline change is that the D4s can now shoot 1080 video at frame rates of 60p and 50p (at bitrates of around 48Mbps), but beyond that, there's not much that's changed. Image 6 of 6. Then came the D4s and Df which both do better lowlight+high ISO shooting than the D3s. The D4s is slightly faster and somewhat lighter than the D3, but the D4s removed most of the external AF controls and instead added video features. quite true. I own a D800 and can confidently report that this camera is superior in all respects except one resolution and its inherent ability to crop. 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