Basically I've notice that the "aperture" sweet spot is even more critical at such a high MP count.
When I migrated to Nikon I bought their best lenses (the holy trinity 14-24, 24-70, 780-200, ptus their 50 f1.4 & 85 f1.4). On the D700 I never really had any image quality issues with them. Those same lenses on the D800 are noticeably softer away from their respective "sweet spots". f5.6 - soft, f8 - shaper, f11 sweet, f16 - softer... Also the high resolution shows up flaws in your hand holding technique. The old rule of thumb of shutter speed being the inverse of the focal length doesn't really work any more. Double it to be sure, or use a tripod. The D800/D800E manual came with a series of instructions on how to maintain sharpness & detail. DS On 04/02/2013, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > How about giving us some more personal insights on 'diffraction issues > with most lenses.' > I'd like to know so I could get out in front of that issue. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: >> And loving it! >> >> ...except for the diffraction issues with most lenses... >> >> On 3 February 2013 12:30, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Poor Nikonians. Their flagship has twice as many pixels and then some >>> :-). >>> >>> On 2/1/2013 10:08 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >>>> >>>> Each RAW file is now larger than the first harddrive I ever owned. >>>> >>>> Nothing to be done for that, is there? I'm shooting DNG which I believe >>>> I >>>> heard is already stored in a semi-compressed state. >>>> >>>> -Charles >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >>>> Minneapolis, MN >>>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>>> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

