[Leica] Comparison of DMR to Nikon D800E

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Gene,
That was very informative. Thanks
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:20 AM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Frank,
>
> No I have not seen any comparisons of the DMR and D800E.  Can't comment on
> the D800, but I do have a D4, and just off the top, the DMR does a fair job
> against the D4 for an 8? year old design.  Although I have not made a side
> by side comparison of images.  The D4 kills the DMR when it comes to high
> ISO, and kills just about anything else in that category.  The D4 is very
> waterproof, from recent experience, where the DMR may not be as good, as I
> keep it out of the rain when I am not shooting, but it has not had any
> glitches when it did get wet, but I worry about the motor to camera
> interface not being too water tight.  They are both heavy, pretty close
> actually, the DMR on the R8 is a bit shorter than the D4.  Turn on is much
> slower with the DMR, and so is write speed.  The buffer on the DMR is very
> small, where the D4 buffer is vast and you can shoot rapidly with no
> problem of the camera slowing down (great for bird in flight photos),
> although i would bet Doug would out do it
>   with the DMR and a single click ;).  The R8DMR is a bit quieter, noise
> wise, but the D4 beats the D800 or D700 by light years in this area.  I
> prefer the simplicity of the DMR controls over those of the D4, although
> the D4 controls are well laid out, when compared to earlier Nikon DSLRs,
> and definitely better than Canon DSLRs.  You can get D4 batteries, where
> the DMR batteries are rarer than Hen's Teeth, and must be rebuilt or use an
> external source if you cannot get them rebuilt.  The charge also lasts way
> longer than the DMR's batteries, although they are not cheap by any
> measure.  The auto focus on the D4 is simply AMAZING! It locks on very fast
> and no hunting at all, even in low light, MF with the D4 and older MF
> Nikkors is very good also, as it has a bright view finder (but not as quite
> as bright as the R8 I think).  MF on the DMR is getting a bit slow with my
> 64 year old eyes, but still works good in most light levels. Build for both
> is excellent, but would give the D
>  4 a bit of a nod here, due to the previously mentioned motor to camera
> body interface of the DMR.  I will go out this weekend and do a side by
> side image test of the two, probably with the 180/2.8 MF Nikkor, and the
> 180/3.4 R APO lenses (Similar vintage lenses), don't have any other similar
> lenses to compare.  But could do a comparison of my 35~70R zoom and my
> 24~70 AF-S Nikkor zoom.  Any thing I have not covered, that you would like
> to know?
>
> CHEERS,
> Gene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 1:22:20 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [Leica] Comparison of DMR to Nikon D800E
>
> Has anyone seen a comparison of the DMR and the Nikon D800E?  Using Leica
> glass, of course.
>
>
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
>
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