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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Nikon D800 - New King of DxOMark with the Highest Score of 95!

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/News/DxOMark-news/The-Nikon-D800-is-the-new-king-of-DxOMark-with-a-score-of-95

Via Digicame-Info (Japanese)

There is also an useful quick comparison table for comparing other FF DSLRs for their DxOMarks and sub-scores.

Actually, the DxOMark and sub-scores of the D800 exceed even those of the 645D! :-o


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bandymelis · 680 weeks ago

Actually, "pixel quality", they say, is the same as K5 and D7000:
"there has been no significant progress with respect to pixel quality since the D7000 and the K5 first appeared back in 2010…."
I can affirm that after comparing noise performance results of D800 against the K5 in the dpreview.
7 replies · active 679 weeks ago
Pixel quality to be the same means that the overall image quality per picture frame will be of huge difference for APS-C against FF. See my detailed reply to Ying below.
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bandymelis · 680 weeks ago

I do not care about theoretical calculations, but comparing the noise performance in dpreview clearly shows to me there is basically no difference FOR HIGH SENSITIVITIES. And for low sensitivities (that is what I care about) there is no difference at all. You word "huge" is most unfitting here. "Huge" is huge. And here if there is any difference, it is minor at most. That is from what my eyes see.
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bandymelis · 680 weeks ago

Actually, when looking at the 3200 images (RAW), for example, the D800 looks clearly noisier. But the image is large. I downloaded the samples to check when enlarged to the same size. Then the images of K5 and D800 are identical. And certainly not a "huge" difference!
How did you look? At the pixel level again? You was told it's an idiotic approach, you can't compare 36Mp and 16Mp directly.
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bandymelis · 679 weeks ago

I simply looked with my eyes. (They do not calculate. They see what they see.) It does not matter for the looker, how many pixels a picture contains, but how it looks. So, when D800 is enlarged to 100 percent, its clearly noisier on the screen in comparison to a Pentax K5 image enlarged to 100 percent. When D800 is enlarged to 69 percents, the visual size is similar. And then the noise in what one can SEE is equal. Maybe someone who looks at a printed image and does not calculate pixels is an idiot?
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bandymelis · 679 weeks ago

I am not anymore a reader of this site.
Good bye, crybaby!
Maybe 5DMkIII will beat it
2 replies · active 680 weeks ago
Possibly not. DxO normalises SNR by pixel count, e.g., the D7000 and D800 shares the same process for the same pixel size and density. So, their this rationale is substantiated as for the same pixel noise level, the overall picture *frame* noise levels are actually different, i.e., the full frame noise is finer and less visible. Unless the per pixel quality of the 5D3 is much higher than that of D800 so as to counteract the pixel count difference, it is unlikely to win.
I checked RAW images from 5DIII available on internet and it seems that ISO 25 600 equals 5DII ISO 6 400.
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justmy2cents · 680 weeks ago

A "Mercedes vs. BMW" discussion it is - I'm actually looking forward to see the glass that can make full use of those sensors, perhaps most/all lenses made of CaF? And when they're there, and cost 3-5 times the price of today's ones, how many will be able to afford them? I'm aware it's pro gear, but even the pros have budgets

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