Auto AF Fine Tune: Nothing, absolutely nothing to the subject, but hundreds of words around which address people entirely new to AFMA, not to speak about Auto AFMA. It doesn't appear to me this guy tried that function with many lenses, he just blows a can of (more) hot air into the cosmos. In my experience his "max +5/-5" is plain bullshit, I had lenses from Nikon which were off around 15. So, talking the need of AFMA down - I don't agree. Needing careful proceeding - I agree. Opening a can of worms - I agree, too, but that's the solution of the otherwise impossible to get FDAF-modules to zero tolerances.
Oh, and 3 million ISO are not the same as 400? how surprising... who says unusable? Marketing department was for sure very happy to put such numbers into the feature list :lol:
It would have been a miracle to me, if the early adopters would remain happy , people who want to find issues or "good - bad - ugly" combinations will find them - no matter if it's Nikon D5 or whatever else.
The DR can be an issue, but for as sports- and action camera I also would not put too much weight on that. Or to be more precise: I never will buy one anyway. On the other side, the way dpreview works on finding the DR is quite useful. Sure, one can always do the HDR-series of static subjects which users of less good DR capable bodies have to do because otherwise they get weak shadows and blown highlights. I'd be disappointed if the sensor of the D810 made less than 4 stops of underexposure possible. To me, great DR is a very welcome feature - 3 million ISO are not.
As the dust begins to settle around the D5 and it's foibles, I must say that for all the "raz a ma taz", the end result is pretty underwhelming.....low ISO DR is worse than their lesser cameras.....the AF is maybe a tad better, but only slightly against the D4S..............
..........the movie mode in HD is decent........ but has it's pants pulled down with it's three minute 4K.......and it's clunky LV/movie mode AF is as poor as it gets!.........
.....the fact that there are many D4/D4S coming up here S/H shows that some are upgrading........most haven't that many clicks on the shutter, so it's not because they are worn out........I guess they just have have the latest model!
The Camera Store wraps up the situation nicely here.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uHWVBLuaLg
To be quite honest I think the Canon will be the better pro body, TCS will no doubt be on the case..
It's also nice to know that the D750 produces images of better quality, for a 1/4 of the price.
If the three minute thing is about the sensor overheating then one wonders how could they get round it...... the up coming Canon has sensor cooling...........
As for "who cares"? ......I can't say I'm in tears about it, however, I still wonder why Nikon is making the D5 "such" a specialist DSLR?.......it's not great for landscape or portrait photogs..... productotogs.....streetotogs or generalotogs....and pro-togs taking video......
.........Nikon must be catering for sportotogs exclusively here......shooting in the dark.....
In fact my sleeping bag has a better "TOG" rating and it trumps the D5 by being machine washable!
