D800 official release

This is my next camera, the D4 is just way out of my price range and I think this will knock the D700 to backup camera status.

Not sure one the whole AA filter thing, not something I've read up on before.

Bit disappointing with 4fps continuous though, but really just want it for the video :)

£2k price tag for the 800E so 800 will be the same as the D700 was.
 
nope, other than the video and increase in megapixels I don't see anything worth upgrading for, but we shall see!
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it said that for high ISO the D800 would stop down from 36 megapixels to about 9?
 
Interesting reading through the previews... It would seem that although the MP have been increased there won't be many lenses that can cope with it so you'll have to reel back the MP?

USB3 is nice I guess :p
 
According to previews so far, its now Nikon's best DX Camera if you shove it into DX mode

Not sure if thats good or bad, or is there a D400 coming?


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Few places with D700 stock left also will have to bomb their price down, surely? £1800 vs £1900, i know what i'd be buying
 
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Alpherah said:
According to previews so far, its now Nikon's best DX Camera if you shove it into DX mode

Not sure if thats good or bad, or is there a D400 coming?


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Few places with D700 stock left also will have to bomb their price down, surely? £1800 vs £1900, i know what i'd be buying
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I wouldn't be so sure about prices going down...many people would like to stick to d700 and not go for extra Mpix and video if (if! ) noise will be worse...
to PP 36Mpix you will need a powerfull machine and not everyone will be looking to upgrade their PC at same time...
 
sbi5ar said:
Interesting reading through the previews... It would seem that although the MP have been increased there won't be many lenses that can cope with it so you'll have to reel back the MP?

USB3 is nice I guess :p
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What do you mean, not many lenses will cope with it?
 
MikeHunt79 said:
What do you mean, not many lenses will cope with it?
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It was just sparked by one persons comment which I followed up and it lead me to this article.

Some people believe that the lens might not be able to properly cope with the new "high sensitivity" of the sensor (in the form of more MP).

As you can see from there article above it is very complex! and I don't fully understand it :p Regardless... I'm a canon user so it does't affect me :p
 
maybe Im wrong but you may have to use fast lenses? the brighter the better ?

when I used 5d2, I only had F2.0 and F2.8 L lenses and never had problems...
I kow 36 is a lot more than 22 on 5d2 but still....it would be stupid to make a camera that you wont be able to use in full ( in terms of quality of photos it can take) without having leses that are worth silly money...
 
MikeHunt79 said:
What do you mean, not many lenses will cope with it?
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A lot of lenses won't resolve enough detail for a 36MP sensor, especially not when stopped down.

36MP just seems a bit obscene really. What is anyone going to do with it apart from make Empire State Building sized prints?
 
Lens sharpness really doesn't make anywhere near as much of a difference as people make it out to. Fine, you won't be outresolving a 36MP sensor any time soon, but that's not the point of having 36MP sensors. 36MP is used for absolutely massive prints; Nikon are gunning for the 5D2's fashion/commercial portraiture market with the D800 as 36MP is usable for billboard shoots.

For internet photographers the D800 might not offer too much, but then nobody is really making their money off of the internet and people buying the D800 for the moment will generally be at least semi-pro.

ISO is likely taking too substantial a hit for the high resolution, but then it's not a camera targeted at low-light work. Wouldn't be surprised to see this becoming a studio workhorse in years to come given the resolution, depending on what Canon bring out as a 5DMk3
 
olv said:
A lot of lenses won't resolve enough detail for a 36MP sensor, especially not when stopped down.

36MP just seems a bit obscene really. What is anyone going to do with it apart from make Empire State Building sized prints?
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A soft lens causing a lack of sharpness in a print is a million times more desirable than pixellation causing it.

It also makes it very plausible that the D800 could be a wildlife camera; something that Nikon really lacks at the moment as all of its full frame cameras bar the D3x are very low MP which is fine at full frame, but limits cropping ability. At the moment a lot of Nikon wildlife shooters are using D7000s with nothing in the full frame to draw them away.
 
jonneymendoza said:
i wished i had gone with nikon. Canon has crap choices of bodies!
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Not at all. The crop cameras are perfectly serviceable, the older 5Ds and 1DSs provide a much cheaper entry point to full frame photography than exists on Nikon (those Kodak ones don't count) and while the 5D2 isn't a high ISO beast, just look at its userbase; it's been a massive success. They lack somewhat in the high ISO stakes at the moment, but this D800 announcement should hardly be the camera that makes you moan about that.

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How much MP will be apparent when you crop a typical 36mp shot to a 1.6 crop?
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I don't know off the top of my head but I'd guess somewhere around 15MP?
 
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