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Hi guys, Shawn here from digiDIRECT. Today
we're going to be checking out the new
Nikon d850. Now, I'm sure you've heard a
lot about this camera, there's been a ton
of buzz around it and it literally flew
off the shelves when it came out earlier
this month. This is really aimed
squarely at the working professional -
there's a lot of high-end performance in
this camera. It also takes a lot of cues
and features from the very popular at D500,
which Nikon came out with recently
as well. We'll go through all these features,
but without any further ado
let's start with a look at the body of
the camera. Form-wise there's not too
many surprises here, it looks very
similar to a lot of full-frame cameras
Nikon have put out in the past. It's a
fully weather-sealed camera and it has a
very solid feel to it - a nice weight to
the camera. There's a really nice deep grip
that's very comfortable to hold even if
you've got larger hands. Even if
there's a weighty lens on the
front it's going to give you some
nice leverage, so that's
excellent.
One unique point, here we have the
addition of a tilting LCD screen which
is going to allow you to shoot
from high or low angles. This is really
nice, and very hard to find on a
full-frame DSLR. It's also a
touchscreen, which is also something new in
this range for Nikon, so that's a nice
addition. We also gain a joystick - we saw
that on the D500 but it was not on the
D810. This allows you to quickly and
effectively change your AF point. The
viewfinder is also very nice and large
and it features a 0.75x
magnification - it looks really nice. Other
than that we see a lot of similarities
here in the button layout. We've got a
couple customisable function buttons, the
top LCD screen, our drive selector - all
things that we're used to seeing on Nikon
full-frame cameras. On the side we have
an HDMI and USB port as well as a
mic and headphone jack, and on the front
we have a remote and a flash port. On
the other side we have slots for an
XQD card and an SD card, and you
can of course save your files to these
separately. At the bottom we have
our EN-EL15a battery, and that's rated
for 1840 shots on
this camera - that's quite a good battery
rating. Note there is also a battery grip
you can get for this camera. We also do
have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability on
this camera and therefore Nikon SnapBridge
capability, which is something that we've
seen in a number of recent Nikon cameras.
So the first thing spec-wise
Nikon has done here is up the sensor
resolution game. This camera has a 45
megapixel sensor inside of it with no
low-pass filter. That's a ton of
resolution, and that's approaching
the top of
what you'd be able to get without going
to a medium format camera. That's going to
be great for a lot of different styles
of photography - landscape photographers
in particular are really going to like this
because you always want more resolution
when you're shooting landscape. It's
going to allow you to crop in
quite a bit with your files so you can be
a lot more flexible with them. It will also
allow you to blow up huge prints if you
need. So a lot of different uses for that
extra resolution, although it is going to
mean that the file sizes coming out of
this camera are going to be quite a bit
larger than on a camera with
a much lower resolution, so it's going
take up more space on your SD card or in
your computer. Luckily Nikon has included
a half RAW mode that actually shoots
a 25 megapixel shot or even
lower if you don't need the
full resolution you want to save on some
space. They've also added an electronic
shutter mode on here which essentially
gives you a silent shooting mode if
you're somewhere where you have to be
quiet like perhaps of wedding ceremony.
It also means that you can shoot
without having any mirror shake at all.
Now don't get me wrong, the mirror
damping on in this camera is quite good,
you're not going to see a lot of shutter
shock. BUT, with 45 megapixels, if you
really want to make sure you're
getting the absolute most out of that,
chuck this on a tripod in electronic
shutter mode and you're going to make sure
that you're maximising that
resolution. They've also given a
low ISO mode of 64 on this camera, so
you can shoot at a very very low ISO.
That's great if you're shooting in a
bright environment - especially if you're
shooting video and you want to maintain
that 1/50th shutter speed or thereabouts
when it's bright outside and you maybe
don't have ND filters. It just gives you
a little bit more flexibility, which is
always handy to have. So let's talk about
the autofocus system here because
this is where this camera really gets
serious. It inherits the 153
point autofocus system that
was on the D5 - this is just hands-down
one of the best and most effective auto
focusing systems on the market. It's a
definite upgrade over the 51-point
autofocus system that was on the D810.
It also gains the 3D Tracking
functionality that was in the D5 and
the D500. This system is fast, its
responsive, and it's accurate - it's almost
impossible to take an out-of-focus photo
with this camera. Take a look at some of
these bird shots. Now, these are not good
photos, but what I was doing here is
basically shooting from the hip
without looking at the viewfinder - quick
drawing the camera up and just pointing
at the subject as it was flying past
just to see how fast it could grab focus
and keep it. You'll notice, all of these shots are in
focus! It's amazing at keeping
focused, amazing at tracking focus.
If you have a subject coming
towards you, which is traditionally very
difficult for cameras to keep track of,
it's just with it the whole way. If
you're shooting any kind of sports or
action this camera is going to absolutely
do it for you. For low-light shooters the
autofocus system is effective at up to
negative 4EV, so if you're shooting in
dark environments like a wedding
reception hall or a concert,
that's still going to work for you. It has a
7 frames per second burst shooting rate -
that actually goes up to 9 frames per
second if you have the battery grip on
there - so it's a quite fast burst
shooting rate. You have a buffer of
51 RAW photos, so you can shoot for
about seven seconds straight before you
fill up the buffer. That's pretty
impressive considering that this is
shooting 45 megapixels shots. Obviously
if you jump down to half RAW or JPEG that
buffer size is going to increase. So
it's excellent for action, lots of
fast shooting options, and excellent auto
focus tracking. The only area where it
falls a little bit down from that is
when you're auto focusing in live view.
There is a noticeable performance
decrease when you're shooting
in Live View, which includes
the electronic shutter or also autofocus
for video. It's not quite up to snuff for
those capabilities. But for most of these
situations where you're shooting a lot of
fast action you're probably going to be
using the viewfinder anyway, so that's
not a huge thing but just be aware of it.
But overall an exceptionally high
quality autofocus system here on the D850.
Looking at video now, the D850 is
actually a surprisingly capable video
camera. I say "surprisingly" because
Nikon is not generally well known
for their video performance. But the
camera can shoot 4k video with a full
sensor readout, which is excellent.
You also can go into a crop mode which
can still shoot full 4K video - that's
handy if you need a little bit of extra
reach, maybe you have a prime lens and you
can't move the camera, chuck it into
crop mode you'll get a little bit extra
telephoto reach out. Both regular and crop mode
are 4K, both of them are really
nice, crisp, high-quality video, so that's
excellent.
It also can shoot 1080p at up to 120
frames per second. Now, like most
cameras, as you increase the frame rate
the video gets a little bit softer, but
even at 120 fps it's still pretty good. This
let's you get some nice slow-mo footage
which is excellent as well and very handy to
have. The camera has 8K time-lapse, which
is great although I will note that in
this mode it does not put the time-lapse
together for you in-camera, you do have
to take the photos to your editor and
make the time-lapse yourself. It has a
mic and headphone jack, so you can attach
an external microphone and monitor that
audio with no issues, that's excellent.
They've added focus peaking in here but
strangely it's only for 1080p - you can't
use the focus peaking in 4K. That's a bit
of a strange gap in the feature set,
especially since in 4k you've got that
higher resolution and you really want to
make sure you're in focus……and you don't
have focus peaking. So that's a little
bit weird. It does have a flat picture
profile which will give you a bit of a
lower contrast image which is
better for grading, but it's not like an
S-LOG or a V-LOG profile. It's not a
profile that's ABSOLUTELY
really meant for colour grading.
Overall this is very strong performance
in video from a company that's really
not known for that, so I'm glad to see
them trying to up their game in that
area. If you're primarily a stills
photographer but you have to
occasionally shoot video, this
is going to be excellent. You can shoot
really nice high-resolution footage,
slow-mo, a nice feature set, time lapse as
well - really it's going to do it
for you. If you are looking for a camera
PRIMARILY for video though, I would still look
elsewhere as there's still other better
options on the market. But like I said, it
has come a long way and is definitely
certainly very competent. So there's very
little that I can fault the D850 for here,
and it's obvious why it's had all that
buzz around it. It's a well-built camera
that takes exceptionally sharp and
high-resolution photos, it has an
amazing autofocus system inside of it
and very good video features as well. I
think this is going to be a workhorse
camera if you're a working professional.
It's got something for all different
genres - landscape shooters,
wedding, portraits, sports shooters. Really
a well-rounded camera that excels
in almost every aspect. The one caveat I
will say is that this is obviously not
an inexpensive camera, so you're paying
for that performance. But for someone who
is making their living from their their
photography it's an absolutely a
worthwhile investment and I think it
will not disappoint.
As I mentioned the D850 is out
now, you can come into one of our stores
and give it a try - we have stores in
the Sydney CBD,
Bondi Junction, Miranda, Chatswood, the
Brisbane and Melbourne CBD, and
Cannington, Western Australia. You can
also get the Nikon D850 on our website at
www.digidirect.com.au.
Thanks guys, take care.
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