04-29-2012, 04:28 PM
Studor13: You obviously do not have a lot of experience with landscape photography.
Put a 10 stop filter on D800 and focus system will still work? Ha, ha... that depends on your light levels. If you are a landscape photographer working under pre-dawn and post-dusk light conditions, even a 3 stop filer is enough to turn your entire viewfinder black. Try it yourself.
Here is one shot taken with f/13 on an APS-C camera:
![[Image: IMG3202-L.jpg]](http://thw.smugmug.com/Travel/Our-Precious-Earth/i-NG2GV4P/1/L/IMG3202-L.jpg)
In this shot, at f/13, I can only get some of the foreground flowers in focus even with careful selection of focal points. The mountains at infinity are out of focus. Eventually, I used live view to capture several shots with different focal points and kept the one I liked best. Compromises had to be made.
PS: APS-C cameras have deeper DOF than FF. Also, I did not venture beyond f/13 because I did not want to deal with diffraction effects recorded by the APS-C sensor.
PS2: I do not know why you find it hard to accept the fact the D800 has poor live-view implementation. There's a simple workaround for RAW users: turn up the default image sharpness to max. Works well enough for live view manual focusing without affecting final RAW output.
Put a 10 stop filter on D800 and focus system will still work? Ha, ha... that depends on your light levels. If you are a landscape photographer working under pre-dawn and post-dusk light conditions, even a 3 stop filer is enough to turn your entire viewfinder black. Try it yourself.
Here is one shot taken with f/13 on an APS-C camera:
In this shot, at f/13, I can only get some of the foreground flowers in focus even with careful selection of focal points. The mountains at infinity are out of focus. Eventually, I used live view to capture several shots with different focal points and kept the one I liked best. Compromises had to be made.
PS: APS-C cameras have deeper DOF than FF. Also, I did not venture beyond f/13 because I did not want to deal with diffraction effects recorded by the APS-C sensor.
PS2: I do not know why you find it hard to accept the fact the D800 has poor live-view implementation. There's a simple workaround for RAW users: turn up the default image sharpness to max. Works well enough for live view manual focusing without affecting final RAW output.