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Candra ᠌ photo
Lives in Jakarta, Indonesia
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Review on High-Resolution Nikon D4 16.2 MP CMOS FX Digital SLR - Full 1080p HD Video (Body Only) - Old Model by Candra ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Cool product, happy with the purchase, maybe Ill buy it again.

I won’t talk about weight, because I’m already used to heavy cameras and I look at light ones as toys. The best camera I considered and will consider D3 / D3s. Yes, there is only 12MP, but how much more convenient and functional that camera was different from this one! Shooting a dark subject? Please. Do you need a white bunny in the snow, and not that twig? Please. A horse is rushing at you and you want to determine where its eyes are on the priority of the nearest object? Please! The balance of the white walks, it is unrealistic to shoot a black dog or a horse in the snow - it will fill up the white one. Always fails white. I was expecting great features from a camera of this price. I think the camera will be ideal for wedding photos - after all, it really detects faces without problems. Works great in any lighting conditions (with manual settings). As a studio camera, it also proved to be great - the picture is clean, do not find fault. Working ISO up to 2022 is easy, no noise, photos can be sold on microstocks without problems. I have been shooting with Nikon for 12 years, I started with film. For me, even despite some roughness that you get used to, cameras have not yet been made better. Almost any lens digests, on all frames where focusing has taken place, ringing sharpness. White balance, flare and all the blockages in black are easily and unobtrusively obtained from the source, you can even pull out a black man shot by candlelight in a huge black room. Detailed. I recommend the camera, really high class. And advice - buy a spare battery. After discharging, the focusing speed drops by 50-60%. And the battery charges quickly, which pleases.

Pros
  • It fits comfortably in the hand, the sane number of megapixels, excellent dynamic range, copes well with continuous shooting, writes to the card quite quickly - buffer overload is almost not felt (I shoot NEF + JPEG). I can’t find fault with either the screen or the viewfinder - everything is visible, everything is informative. The menu is logical and practical as usual. The battery really lasts for a couple of days of active shooting. For four hours of shooting in the cold at -20, about 25% of the charge was spent.
Cons
  • Where did you remove the priority of the nearest object? Where is the ease of switching between tracking and static focus? For these functions, Nikon was so dearly loved and I was deprived of this! It’s inconvenient to change the focus point in general, the joystick is tight and it’s not always possible to really move it where you need it when wearing gloves. Tracking focus and auto focus do not work as they should. Automatic bb has a tendency to walk. Exposure metering was tested in different modes and no difference was noticed - everything is done as if by spot metering. Badly digests magenta, you have to crush with Photoshop. Video shoots with loss of focus, fidgets for a long time to restore - it's better to buy a camcorder The Sony card slot is disgusting. Instead of quickly swapping one CF card for another, you are forced to depend on another format that can only be read by your own card reader! The new card does not fit into the hyperdrive, so a quick backup on the spot in the field will not work, you will have to carry a laptop and a card reader for this card with you.