Lightroom Classic’s AI Denoise Module exceeds Format Limits

My workplace. You start with this Nikon D850 shot, ISO 400, f/1.2, 50mm, 1/250

And you get this.

Nikon D850 Video Capture

Just a sample of the gear you need for a decent video recording with the Nikon D850.

A little update from being on call over the weekend in the hospital. In the downtime between patients, I set up the camera and the field recorder to capture 4 K video.

Smoking the Peace Pipe with Nikon

Café scene with new, old Nikon D850, photographed (with AI support) with iPhone 14 Pro. Post-processed the RAW file, but the result is still too harsh.

What do you call it when you buy a camera again? Stupidity? Tenacity? A vote of confidence? Whatever, after I got rid of my Leica SL2-S, I no longer had a full frame autofocus camera either. But I still have a few F-Nikkors, for example the AI-S 1:1.2 50 mm or the incomparable (also not with “Plena”) DC Nikkor 1:2.0 105 mm. So 3 years after selling it, I bought another Nikon D850 from Calumet Photographic in Hamburg Bahrenfeld. And look how much better it represents the café scene:

With AF-S Nikkor 24-70 mm 1:2.8E ED

No comparison, right? Here are a few JPEGs from the way back from the café:

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At home I found the NEF + JPEG setting, here I show a few further processed RAW images from the garden:

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And finally one that shows the exact focus on the beer bottle and the beautiful bo’keh:

The zoom at 28 mm and f/2.8.

Here’s to a beautiful and detailed rediscovery!

Nobody Expects Backfocus

Bad printing on your test chart, in focus, that’s what you want to see!

Took up bird photography lately. Using the 200 – 500 mm f/5.6 supertelezoom on my Nikon D850, I was getting good results, I thought. But when I reached for more reach,

Mirrorlessless

Vanilla ice cream, Apfelstrudel and a 45.7 megapixel beast

I’m being ungrateful and have been replacing the Nikon D800 that served me so well shooting the wedding with a new body. Ten days ago at Photokina, mirrorless system cameras were all the rage. I had a look through a Nikon Z7 and found the electronic viewfinder straining to my still blissfully good eyesight. Same with the other manufacturer’s EVIL (electronic viewfinder, interchangeable lens, that moniker should be standard!) camera proposals. Only the Leica SL stood out, but that one is a bit out of my price range, especially it’s autofocus lenses.
I kept the Sony alpha 7RIII for last and had a salesman at a big camera store in Nuremberg demonstrate it to me last Saturday. But when neither he nor his colleagues