Sean Esopenko

Visit to Banff

February 21, 2012

Click “Read More” to see more pictures.  My wife and I spent the day in Banff yesterday, cruising some of the back roads and eating chocolate in town.  The lighting was just crazy yesterday.  Yellow and yummy.  The other day I picked up a Nikon 14-24 2.8 zoom lens which has been quite nice to use.  A friend of mine lent me his D300 while I wait for my D800 to come in.  It’s turning out to be a nice lens to use on a crop sensor which means I should be able to pull off some nice “fake shift” by shooting at 14mm and cropping down to aps-c (21mm equivalent field of view).  This will let me move the horizon line a fair bit.  It’s like using a lens with a large imaging circle on a smaller sheet of film to get shift movements.  That’s all a shift lens really is.

I’m hoping that the Sony sensor inside the D800 resolves as well as the Sony Nex-5N I had for a while.  The D800 crops down to 16mp when shooting in aps-c (DX) mode which is the same megapixel rating  as the Nex-5N which was an incredibly sharp camera.  If the AA filter is as “weak” as the one that was in the Nex-5N I’m not going to be worried about whether I got the D800E model.  In my opinion the Nex-5N’s AA filter was the perfect balance between sharpness and artifact control.  It took images that were sharper than my 12 megapixel 5D classic.

I didn’t make the first batch of pre-orders so mine should arrive mid April.  So I’ll continue the waiting game.

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