Originally posted by Corto-PA I don't understand this craze about the IIs moire. Since we still have very little to show that.
It is not a 200MP sensor, so you'll see moiré. No need to wait for user reports. The D800e has the same pixel density and one can already look at examples showing moiré. As a matter of fact, when considering equivalent images, the 16MP K-5 IIs will show moiré more often than the 24MP D800e.
I'm sure many users will report back that they aren't getting moiré in practice. These users, however, should
ask themselves whether they are really exploiting the potential of an AA-less camera.
Originally posted by Alizarine I just hope they do something about it through software.
Not possible, in general. Moiré is the result of spurious information being recorded (that should never have been recorded in the first place) and there is no way in which the destroyed information can be recovered.
The cleverer moiré fixing software will become, the better it will be able to patch things up so that it looks inconspicuously, but in general nothing short of content-aware filling will be truly satisfactory and I don't see that coming to standard software solutions anytime soon.
Originally posted by Alizarine I'm not sure how Nikon did it for the D800E, since it's not technically an "AA-less" camera, they just created a workaround for it, but there's still something in front of the sensor.
The "something in front of the sensor" are two birefringent plates that cancel out each other (rather than two birefringent plates that scatter in two orthogonal directions).
This is just a particular solution to not have any "AA filtering" effect, but it is equivalent to having no filter at all. Completely omitting the filter would require a different sensor alignment and this is just more difficult/costly to handle compared to choosing between two part types.