Is the picture quality of Nikon D850 improved significantly?

For Nikon D850, some changes have taken place in the design concept, instead of pursuing absolute low-sense perfect image quality, it pursues the balance between low-sense and high-sense. Therefore, on the one hand, whether low sensitivity can ensure the same purity as D8 10, on the other hand, how to increase 9.4 million pixels after high sensitivity D8 10 adopts back-illuminated mode has become a concern.

For low-quality images, Nikon D850 has increased 9.4 million pixels, so the improvement of details is huge. The resolution of Nikon D850 is absolutely perfect beyond D8 10. In terms of low sensitivity tolerance, D850 is slightly less than D8 10, but the difference will not exceed 1/3EV. However, the color stability of D850 is better than D8 10 after highlighting the dark details.

In terms of high photosensitivity, the advantages of Nikon D850 lie in the back-illuminated sensor and the new JPG algorithm of EXPEED 5. Therefore, in JPG, Nikon D850 is close to 1 before D8 10 in high sensitivity performance, but there is little difference between them in RAW files, but D850 can catch up with or even partially catch up with D8 10, which is a rare technical breakthrough.

For the promotion of high sense, D850 has another advantage: high sense of endurance. Due to the back-illuminated sensor, D850 has a better dynamic range under high sensitivity. Especially after ISO 1600, D850 can approach the dynamic range of 1EV ahead of D8 10, which is very useful for night scene shooting and starry sky shooting. It can be said that D850 is superior to D8 10 in absolute tolerance.

It can be said that Nikon D850 is definitely one of the best 135 cameras at present. In terms of detail performance, 45.75 million pixels bring the absolute advantage of high pixels, and the performance of high sensitivity has not decreased, but has improved slightly, which is very rare under the existing technical conditions. Nikon D850 is excellent in image quality, but objectively speaking, if we don't consider the extra 9.4 million pixels and only consider the image quality factor, the gap between the existing D850 and D8 10 is not that big.