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IN THE FIEld Testbench The D5 puts in a strong dynamic range performance, with a decent amount of scope when it comes to pulling back detail from the shadows lots of different focusing capabilities and settings, but I’m old-school and still like to select my focus point for every shot. I can’t really explain why I still shoot like this, rather than trying out 3D focusing, for example, but I think I’ve just used this technique for so long now that I simply don’t want to change. I got back home from the wedding just after midnight and downloaded all the files onto a hard drive, then onto a back-up hard drive, before heading to bed. Having never seen an XQD card before, let alone used one, I was impressed at how quickly 32GB of files were transferred onto my MacBook. By the way, I had already filled the 32GB card up twice, and downloaded during the day. The following morning, I woke up and felt a click in my shoulder, a pain across my back, and soreness at the bottom of my back. It was the same pain I got as a sports photographer, and I hadn’t felt it for a long time. Later that day I went for a six-mile run and I’ve never heard my shoulder click so much as it did then. Pre-wedding shoot A few days later, and I was back on the road. First stop, a pre-wedding shoot in Norfolk. I normally travel pretty light for these sessions, mainly because they can involve a lot of walking. Unlike a wedding, I actually have a lot of time to work with the couple on these shoots, and can experiment more. I always take two cameras, my 35mm and 58mm lenses, and a tilt-and-shift lens so I can experiment with a few different arty shots. It was a gloriously sunny day and the D5 performed exceptionally in the harsh light. Shooting with the manual-focus tilt-and-shift lens is always hit and miss, so I tend to fire off a burst of frames, being safe in the knowledge that at least one of them will be pin sharp. With the extra frames per second the D5 gave me over the D750, I noticed a few more pin-sharp images than usual. A trip to Durdle Door A couple of days later I did another pre-wedding shoot at sunrise, this time at Durdle Door in Dorset. I left Nottingham at 11pm, drove through the night, got to Dorset at 4am, and managed to grab a 90-minute snooze in the car. I met the couple and we headed over the cliffs from Lulworth Cove to Durdle Door. It ‘With the quicker focusing in the low light, together with the rapid frame bursts, it felt as though I was shooting a lot faster’ turned out to be one of my best pre-wedding shoots in years. There was the lovely couple and a beautiful sunrise, of course, but even using the D5 seemed to make the shoot more interesting. With the quicker focusing in the low light, together with the rapid frame bursts, it felt as though I was shooting a lot faster and moving on to different poses and ideas more quickly than usual. When I reviewed the images later that day, I struggled to find a single out-of-focus image. Even with the portraits I shot at f/1.4, the camera nailed it every time – and I’m talking about shooting directly into the sun as it crept over the cliffs in the distance. The D5 was very responsive and consistent. Meanwhile, we must have walked about three miles in total during the coastal pre-wedding shoot, and not once did the weight of the camera bother me. Maybe I was adjusting to the size of the D5. I only started using the Fn button on my Nikon cameras a couple of years ago, and I always set it (the one near the lens) to activate spotmetering. With the extra ones on the D5, I think I would programme them to activate something useful and helpful on a wedding day or engagement shoot. I’m not sure what, but I bet if I’d had more time with the D5, I would have found more than just a few functions that I like to access quickly. Conclusion After spending a few weeks with the D5, I believe it fully justifies its £5,200 retail price. I shoot 30-40 weddings each year, not to mention a lot of pre-wedding and engagement shoots. I’m a subscribe 0330 333 1113 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I 14 May 2016 47
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