June last year I traded my Nikon D780 in and boought a Nikon D850 back. So far so good. After a couple of weeks using the D850, I noticed I did not have as many keepers as I had with my D780. Lens is the same: Sigma 10-600 Sports.
Pictures are not crisp sharp. Whatever I try, high shutter speed (>1/2000 for birds in flight), ISO limitted to 800, different Aperature settings, nothing gives me many crisp sharp pictures. Today I was confronted again. A Marsh Harrier approached me from the front. I started shooting till the bird was aout of sight.
I made about 80 shots, most are not usable. I attached one. Only edit is made it a JPG from the RAW. Used DxO Photolabs 7. DxO did only optical corrections,not further post processing. I had to resize it from 8256 px wide to 1980 px wide due to limit of this forum.
When needed, I can send the RAW file.
I am wondering what is wrong with this picture, what should I do to get more crisp sharp photo's from BIF?
Is it a hardware issue (lens or body), is it me, pix peeping or something else?
Please help, I do get some second thoughts on the aquirance of the D850 ....
Tino
As Eric said do a controlled test.
Make certain you settings are all correct especially focusing.
Check out Steve's tool on this how to set up your D850.
Your D780 is 24mp the D850 is 45mp, your using a
Sigma 10-600 must be a typo could you mean 150 600 Sports.
Check your lens VR setting, in cases VR sports setting is better than standard, also often if your going over 1600 ss VR it can impact outcomes in some gear combinations, try using the lens with the VR off, VR use and settings is a suspect often, your D850 will reflect any imperfections very quickly.
The D850 can be very unforgiving.
You say you bought a D850 back, so does that mean you have had one before.
Bottom Line, try another lens,
There are some very good points raised by very experienced members in this post.
Testimonial: I have had the D850 for years along with the Z9 Z8 D6 D5 D4s, in every case the D850 goes toe to toe (other than 3 D tracking of the Z9 Z8 D6 etc as you would expect), but for stills you can throw a blanket over them so to speak.
Its the best DSLR ever Never an issue or ever let me down, i know when i grab it i can relax knowing it will work and deliver, 100% issue free.
If all else fails stand in front of the mirror and go through every point and option carefully as up to 98% of image outcomes are user related.
Only an opinion