D700 (high??)ISO banding

Rutgerbus · Mar 13, 2013

I was out shooting the Orion nebular 1.44 lightyears away.

I used the D700 + 300mm AF-s f/4 and shot at ISO 800-1600-3200 and 6400.

Then I observed in the final image after stacking that there was some strange banding going on in the image.

First thought it could be some contrail or airplain flying through one of the shots. The chekced the single frames and seems that there is some banding occuring in the higher (3200-6400) ISO-range.

You can see it in the picture below, just running horizontally through the top of the nebula. When adjusting the collor in lightroom to more greenish, you can even see it better.

Can someone please tell me if this is normal???? Otherwise I bring my camera in to see if they can repare it....it should be still under warantee because I bought it brand new in September 2012.

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coudet · Mar 13, 2013

Rutgerbus said:
Rutgerbus wrote:
Can someone please tell me if this is normal????

D3/D700 sensor has that, sort of, blooming issue.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/38081579

Svetoslav Popov · Mar 13, 2013

Yup, that's the shitty sensor of the D700.

Imagine my anger after i decided to upgrade from D300 to D700, never seeing anything about it in all the forums i frequent (everybody praised it for its low light abilities), then sold all my DX stuff cause i had no money, then emptying my bank account to get the D700, and finding out the hard way that it's unusable in Hi-ISO hi-contrast situations. I tried 2 samples of the D700, talked to Thom Hogan, found some evidence on the net suggesting that there is quite a sample variation with the sensor and that some bodies don't show it to that extent.

With no camera gear and 2 booked weddings 2 months later i was forced to overdraw my account and get a D800 for over 1000€ more. Almost a year later i still suffer financially. Had i known about that "bloom" problem, i would have kept the D300 for much longer (and now we have a D600, which is affordable for a freelancer like me.)

I feel sorry for you. But not all is lost. You could try removing it with Nik Dfine, it has banding removal that works quite well most of the time (the D700 has readout banding as well, which @ 12mpx is quite visible, even at lower ISOs).

BTW, i had this "blooming" issue with 2 different D700s starting @ ISO 1600, *without* any exposure or shadow corrections in the RAW (in Lightroom and Capture NX).

nathantw · Mar 13, 2013

Svetoslav Popov said:
Svetoslav Popov wrote:

Yup, that's the shitty sensor of the D700.

Imagine my anger after i decided to upgrade from D300 to D700, never seeing anything about it in all the forums i frequent (everybody praised it for its low light abilities), then sold all my DX stuff cause i had no money, then emptying my bank account to get the D700, and finding out the hard way that it's unusable in Hi-ISO hi-contrast situations. I tried 2 samples of the D700, talked to Thom Hogan, found some evidence on the net suggesting that there is quite a sample variation with the sensor and that some bodies don't show it to that extent.

With no camera gear and 2 booked weddings 2 months later i was forced to overdraw my account and get a D800 for over 1000€ more. Almost a year later i still suffer financially. Had i known about that "bloom" problem, i would have kept the D300 for much longer (and now we have a D600, which is affordable for a freelancer like me.)

I feel sorry for you. But not all is lost. You could try removing it with Nik Dfine, it has banding removal that works quite well most of the time (the D700 has readout banding as well, which @ 12mpx is quite visible, even at lower ISOs).

BTW, i had this "blooming" issue with 2 different D700s starting @ ISO 1600, *without* any exposure or shadow corrections in the RAW (in Lightroom and Capture NX).

Wow, sorry to hear you had such a terrible problem with the sensor on the D700. When I first purchased the camera and was playing around I had a yellow band that showed up on white areas. However, there was goop on the sensor (grease?) and that went back to the store. The next one didn't have the yellow banding. So, it might have been the camera. I haven't really experienced any type of blooming since.

yray · Mar 13, 2013

This type of artifact I have not seen on D700. What I did see at ISO 6400 and above is a grid-like pattern across the very dark areas of the image. It is not common enough, however, to bother me much, but I do look for it now, after I came across it a couple of times.

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