D600: Mirror vibration & AA filter

brianjb wrote:

So your questions/concerns interested me, so I decided to do a little test.  I mounted my D600 and 50/1.4 G on my Gitzo 1258 tripod with RRS BH55 head.  I set the camera to a 2 second timer (I do not have a remote release for this camera yet).  I took one picture with the mirror down, and another with LV.  The timer was active on both shots.  I took shots at the following shutter speeds:

• 1/50
• 1/25
• 1/15
• 1/10
• 1/5
• 1/2.5

I took a picture of a water bottle that had sharp small text.  The bottle was approximately 2.5-3' away from the sensor.  I used an aperture of F5.6 which I believe is the sharpest for the lens I used.  I manually focused the lens in LV mode zoomed in.
At 100% view there was a very slight difference between mirror down and LV.  I do not believe that the difference was significant enough to notice on common sized prints.  Here are the shots from 1/25.  All of the pictures were pretty similar looking all the way down to 1/2.5, so I am not going to bother posting them all.  The files were converted using NX2 and saved as 100% quality jpegs.