Nikon D750 Review

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Nikon D750 Review – Image Quality

Colour and White balance

Owing to the fact that the D750 utilises the same colour sensor as the D800E and the D810, the colour rendition is much the same. What this means in practice is well saturated colours across a wide range of subjects, and colours which are punchy and very rich.

The D750 is also now capable of performing spot white balance in live view, a feature which will prove a big benefit to videographers.

Exposure

The Nikon D750 utilises a 91k-pixel RGB sensor also seen in the D800E and D810. One nice feature it carries over is the Highlight Metering Mode which meters for the highlights in particular so that they’re not blown.

This setting is certainly effective, although it’s also worth noting that both spot and evaluative metering modes deliver accurate exposures across a wide range of conditions.

Resolution

While the inclusion of an anti-alias filter is sure to impact upon fine detail rendition in comparison to its stablemates which lack the feature, in general it performs well in this regard.

At the base ISO setting it resolves around a level you would expect for its megapixel count, and even at ISO 6400 the high resolution is generally sustained. At the highest setting of ISO 51,200 images begin to lose sharpness, although generally performance is still impressive at this point

Noise

General high ISO noise performance is also pleasing, with noise free images up to ISO 400 continuing up to ISO 1600.

At around ISO 12,800 both luminance and colour noise start to be more prominent, while at ISO 25,600 and 51,200 quality certainly suffers. That being said, those two highest settings are still certainly useable.

Raw vs. JPEG

While JPEG files do a great job at managing fine detail through noise reduction at higher ISO settings, to get the most detail from the sensor it remains sensible to shoot Raw files and process them yourself.

Of course, at high ISO settings this does mean more chroma noise in the original images at higher settings, although this can be easily dealt with in post-production