All the gear and no idea! (D810)

[Pennyyong45]

.... that's me!

Can i trouble you for some advice please......I recently bought a D810, I haven't been able to upgrade the lens yet so i've been using the lens that came with my previous camera (Nikon D80) a 18-135mm DX lens. I'm finding when i review the images on the back of the camera (or the computer) and zoom in they aren't very sharp, at first i thought it was because i was using the wrong shutter speed, so i fiddled around, but i don't think its that i think its the lens.

The lens is a DX lens not a FX lens, which i understand means it has a smaller sensor, do you think this could be part of the problem? can DX lenses be used with the D810?

My old camera is a D80 a 10.8 megapixel camera this ones a 36.3 megapixel but the image quality doesn't seem any better, do you reckon the camera could be faulty?

[Pennyyong45]

Hi andy, yes the lens and body autofocus works, well it sounds like it does! it makes all the usual noises and allows me to take a picture

[Pennyyong45]

Thanks NTEL for the article i shall have a read!!

I now know that DX lenses can be used, just checked settings on my camera auto DX crop is on. I'll have a little fiddle around with settings/ try a friends lens to see if i can fix the problem. Somethings wrong either with the lens or camera because it should be sharper!

[Pennyyong45]

Thank you for your replies everyone, K12beano i will try your suggestion this weekend....to be fair I'm pretty sure its something I'm doing and not the camera.... but I'm still going to blame the camera.....

Budfox/ Simpo Two In my defence I did say i had no idea haha.

Saving up for a new lens!!