D800 Extreme crops

[Linwood Ferguson]

One should not crop more than needed,
One should compose correctly instead of using post processing,
But....

I'm loving all those pixels in the D800. This image is 2.2% of the full frame.

Just in case you think that's a typo, it is 1/45th of the frame. It's the head of a burrowing owl in Cape Coral Florida, taken today in light drizzle (you can see the feathers are a bit wet), NIkon 200-400 @ f4 @ 400, ISO220, 1/250th.

It wouldn't hold up to a large or even medium sized print. BUt it is rather nice when one doesn't compose fully in the frame to have enough pixels to get a tight crop.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Thanks for posting this, Linwood. To add some context, do you mind posting an uncropped out-of-camera JPG resized to 1024px here as well?

[Dan Brown]

Outrageous! Would love the see the full frame, just for kicks!

[Linwood Ferguson]

Travelling next two weeks will when I return.

[Linwood Ferguson]

Here's a shot showing the relative size of the crop.

[Dan Brown]

Simply amazing!

[Harshad Barve]

Mind Blowing

[ericbowles]

I was stunned by the resolution and image quality from the D800E. It truly is far better than I expected - even at 100% crops or more.