Review D850 • Dynamic Range & Sharpness • BLACKS

[Kodiak Qc]

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Some results at pulling the maximum from the DR
and sharpness from the combo D850 attached to
600 mm ƒ4 after AF Fine Tune.
PP in Capture One Pro v11.

#1 SOOC
#2 Crop + PP
#3 100%

#1

#2

#3

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[Kodiak Qc]

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There is a nasty halo along the right side #3…
must be a jpg compression artefact.

 

[mike weeks]

It would be more beneficial to keep all the D850 threads in one instead of continually creating more threads IMHO

Mike

 

[ah5168]

I think these may be over sharpened also the blues look quiet noisy in 3 which may also be due to the sharpening, I would be interested to see crop 3 without and post production.

 

[holty]

i think 3 looks fine
think your striving for perfection which is probably unatainable
how many pixels are in the 100% crop pic can't be to many

 

[Kodiak Qc]

how many pixels are in the 100% crop pic can't be to many

A calculation would be useless as the final posted
picture is down sampled to 1200 px wide not reflec-
ting the actual resolution but giving an idea of what
can be achieve, Grahame!

Just by curiosity…
#1 is FF and, when converted to 100% jpg @ 300 ppi,
it would be (8256 x 5504 px) 27,52" x 18,35".

When published at a lower density… GINORMOUS!

 

[f/1.2]

It would be more beneficial to keep all the D850 threads in one instead of continually creating more threads IMHO

Mike

Or the actual D850 thread were they should go

 

[HoppyUK]

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There is a nasty halo along the right side #3…
must be a jpg compression artefact.

It looks like the kind of outline halo you often get with auto-masking. Did you use auto-mask to cut-out around the bird, and then a shadows lift? I often get better results by cutting-out manually with a thin feathering (haha ) and slight overlap. Depends on the subject though, and how much you push the brightening, can be hard to avoid.

Amazing quality from that camera though

 

[Kodiak Qc]

… always stay cool, Tommy!

 

[Kodiak Qc]

Did you use auto-mask to cut-out around the bird, and then a shadows lift?

Would one need to lift the shadows on the first file (SOOC), Richard?

 

[HoppyUK]

Would one need to lift the shadows on the first file (SOOC), Richard?

Is the halo outline also on the SOOC image? It's too small to see.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

Is the halo outline also on the SOOC image? It's too small to see.

I doubt it… as it was not down sampled so heavily.
OTH, brush haloing when masking or auto masking
are not so regularly thin.

Edit:
The halo is not there in the 100% crop CO Pro window!