Can someone point me to some great shots from the D810?
DR seems to be lacking from what I've seen overall online.
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Harry, could you perhaps be a bit more specific in describing what it is you see or do not see in the D810 files ?
For some years my personal impression has been that modern, digital high end cameras have
so much Dynamic Range (DR) that the files now and then look a bit flat, so that sometimes I have found myself adding some pop to the picture by adjusting levels and curves and making sure that the histogram curve hits both walls in the histogram and maybe adding an S-shaped curve if necessary.
I therefore wonder if perhaps that is actually what you are speaking about, that the D8xx files have so much DR that we need to add a more punchy contrast curve ?
In order to judge the DR for yourself I think you need to work with some RAW files, otherwise what you see is just other people's end results with post processing.
There are plenty of links to RAW files in the 'old'
Nikon D800 First Blush thread from 2012, and with regards to DR I doubt that it matters all that much if the files are from the 'old' D800 or the new D810.
Or maybe some D810 owners would care to share some links to D810 RAW files ?
I should add that I'm not speaking out of any sort of scientific knowledge here (I'm actually an ignoramus with post processing) but purely out of instinct and from fiddling with RAW files in my own trial-and-error way.
So perhaps I ought to leave this discussion to the adults
.