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olaf

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D800E and video quality?
« on: February 10, 2012, 01:43:04 pm »

Hi folks
I hope Chris Sanderson or another video expert can help here. I read that if video is important then buy the D800 because the lack of an anti aliasing filter on the D800E will mean that the video quality will be poor. It sounds odd (surely Nikon would have thought of this) but I'm a newbie to video so I have no idea if this is common sense or nonsense.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
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Re: D800E and video quality?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 04:29:59 pm »

This from Phillip Bloom:


"Oh…one last thing, any video shooters out there AVOID the D800E. It has no low pass filter which means aliasing and moire hell! It is designed to give more detail and resolution. We don’t need it!"

http://philipbloom.net/2012/02/07/d800/

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Re: D800E and video quality?
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2012, 04:33:07 pm »

This from Phillip Bloom:

"Oh…one last thing, any video shooters out there AVOID the D800E. It has no low pass filter which means aliasing and moire hell! It is designed to give more detail and resolution. We don’t need it!"

Did he actually try the D800E and see issues?

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Re: D800E and video quality?
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2012, 05:16:54 pm »

Did he actually try the D800E and see issues?

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Bernard


My reading of his post says NO and when questioned about the E he did not respond, even though he responded to a later question on another subject.

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Re: D800E and video quality?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2012, 11:04:35 pm »

No, he hasn't used it yet.

He did write an anti-moire filter for Final Cut Pro for the 5DII.

Here is a bit more:

"More megapixels for video causes these issues: Image size needs to be drastically reduced to get down to the 1920×1080 full HD video image, and to do that in the Canons has meant line skipping, information binning, which gives us moire and aliasing. Not nice. In fact, very ugly. I am not sure how bad the binning is on the D800 but that is a lot of information to throw away. The image is 1.6x larger than the 5Dmk2, so that worries me. I have noticed some image issues on the video below, but never judge image quality based upon a compressed web video. I need to see the original, or better still, shoot with the camera to form a proper opinion."
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Re: D800E and video quality?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2012, 12:29:05 am »

Hi,

I don't think the lack of AA-filter affects video at all because it would be optimized for stills anyway. For video the AA-filter would need to be much stronger.

Best regards
Erik


Hi folks
I hope Chris Sanderson or another video expert can help here. I read that if video is important then buy the D800 because the lack of an anti aliasing filter on the D800E will mean that the video quality will be poor. It sounds odd (surely Nikon would have thought of this) but I'm a newbie to video so I have no idea if this is common sense or nonsense.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
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