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Why no focus peaking on the D810?
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Testing123
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I would love to have focus peaking on my D800. If the new D810 had it (and it was both precise and accurate ;-) , I would buy it in a heartbeat!
Cliff Fujii
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I have a function button programmed to enlarge a live view image to the max for focusing accuracy. That's required in macro work. As for the OVF, Phase detect works fine.
DezM
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Agreed. I'd like focus peaking in my SLR. I use it on my Sony mirrorless and it's quite effective.
Could Nikon firmware be hacked to support it in LV? With the millions of Nikon shooters with manual lenses around, it would be quite a lucrative piece of software.
Agreed. I'd like focus peaking in my SLR. I use it on my Sony mirrorless and it's quite effective.
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sandy b
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http://diglloyd.com/blog/2014/20140627_0844-NikonD810-LiveView.html
and from Hardware zone:
Thanks to a new image sensor readout method, the D810’s live view monitor can now be used to more easily find the focus peak even when zoomed in, allowing you to quickly confirm that you’ve achieved pinpoint focus. Playback images can be magnified up to approx. 46x (Large-size images in FX format) for quick and precise focus confirmation.
and from Hardware zone:
Thanks to a new image sensor readout method, the D810’s live view monitor can now be used to more easily find the focus peak even when zoomed in, allowing you to quickly confirm that you’ve achieved pinpoint focus. Playback images can be magnified up to approx. 46x (Large-size images in FX format) for quick and precise focus confirmation.
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dojoklo
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For some reason, both DPReview and DXOMark say that the D810 has focus peaking:
On the video front, the D810 offers full HD recording at 1080/60p/24p with manual exposure control, focus peaking and zebra pattern, manual exposure control, and audio level adjustment.
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There’s also manual exposure control, focus peaking and zebra pattern display options for exposure warning plus audio monitoring while filming
Nikon D810 sensor review: New DxOMark leader
Nikon has enjoyed phenomenal success with both the Nikon D800 and D800E models, and particularly so with latter model with its unusual optical low-pass filter that cancels out the anti-aliasing effects. So it comes as little surprise to see the usual mid-term update, the D810, consolidates the...
www.dxomark.com
Cliff Fujii
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Those are not the only sites that say that the D810 has focus peaking. I wonder what Nikon calls focus peaking?
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dojoklo
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No, I was referring to focus peaking. It may not have been in the final press release or Nikon D810 page, but even the product description on Amazon still says :
On the video front, the D810 offers full HD recording at 1080/60p/24p with manual exposure control, focus peaking and zebra pattern, manual exposure control, and audio level adjustment.
If you google that sentence, you find it nearly verbatim everywhere, since it likely came from Nikon. DP Review used it (still on their D810 summary page), DXOMark picked it up, etc.
Perhaps somewhere along the line, some wording got jumbled from the Ninja/ Filmmaker Kit blurb.
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I asked a Nikon representative who told me focus peaking was proprietary technology. Nikon would probably have to negotiate with whoever owns the patents.
Well, gosh.
I am only familiar with focus peaking from using it on my NEX-7, and I must say, I was not really impressed.
The effect of focus peaking varies considerably on camera settings, subject composition, lighting conditions, and lens used. It is very difficult to get consistent results and to interpret the fringes. It seemed that the peaked distance was way too broad or the fringes difficult to see. Zooming in would alter their character. Camera settings to adjust the peaking seemed arbitrary and ill defined.
It just never really worked for me. I really only used it to get an idea of depth of field.
I find the Nikon focus confirmation dot much more helpful in pinpointing precise focus.
I am only familiar with focus peaking from using it on my NEX-7, and I must say, I was not really impressed.
The effect of focus peaking varies considerably on camera settings, subject composition, lighting conditions, and lens used. It is very difficult to get consistent results and to interpret the fringes. It seemed that the peaked distance was way too broad or the fringes difficult to see. Zooming in would alter their character. Camera settings to adjust the peaking seemed arbitrary and ill defined.
It just never really worked for me. I really only used it to get an idea of depth of field.
I find the Nikon focus confirmation dot much more helpful in pinpointing precise focus.
Rick Knepper
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Photoshop CC has a selection tool called Focus Area. This is so handy, especially for macros with broad areas of bokeh vs. in-focus subject matter. It's basically, focus peaking. However, the software sometimes just gets it wrong like when it selects the bokeh instead of the in-focus stuff.
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Daniel Villiers
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You can have focus peaking on cheap $ 200/300 chinese Monitor and a plethora of other camera and evf, So I don't think it is proprietary and secondly if it is how come those no name Chinese company license it and not Nikon.
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