Nikon D800 via B&H
Here’s some highlighted specs:
_36.3 megapixel, full-frame sensor (FX)
_up to 5fps still image shooting
_1080pHD video 24 or 30fps
_ISO Range 100-6400 (extendable from 25,600)
_Live View + External Monitor viewing for professional video applications
_Built in external microphone with audio monitoring capabilities via external headphones
_Twin card slots – one Compact Flash and one SD
_weight = 2 pounds 3 oz
The curve balls for me? The megapixels. There’s a lot of em. Also, this is geared a lot more toward video than I would have anticipated. But beyond that… Please note I HAVE NOT touched one of these cameras, and like the D4, NO I didn’t shoot the campaign. I haven’t yet spent time with the camera to tell you any gory details, although I’m assuming I’ll be able to chat more soon.
Aesthetics? Click thru a range of images of the camera via the above tabs.
So.. I (we) knew this was coming, but rather than me spouting off about having played with the system (I can’t – although some of you journalist types have I’m sure), or telling you what your feelings about this system should be (I won’t), I’m turning the tables on you.
What’s your take? Love, hate, indifferent? Insights?
[Reminder that Nikon plays close attention to this blog, so your comments on this post – glowing or otherwise – might help inform Nikon about what your thinking.]Link to all the Nikon D800 details and/or purchase here via B&H.
I’d like to try this one, although I’m not so attracted with the large MP thought, and decide for myself. On the other hand, I’m looking forward to D4S.
would be an awesome studio camera for sure =]
Dear Nikon, if you’re reading this PLEASE release a D700s!
A D700 body with the D3s internals would be the perfect camera for the large percentage of Nikon shooters who see the new 36MP D800 as overkill for their work. The D700 obviously ate into a lot of D3 sales, so it was wise for Nikon not to release a D700s before now – it would most likely have affected D3s sales in exactly the same way. However the release of the D4 and discontinuation of the D3s will hopefully quash that concern.
As others have said, while the D800 looks like a fine camera it’s certainly not a replacement for the D700 – and I think what most of us really want is that replacement.
Just to be more specific, someone at Nikon proposed the idea of the Low Pass filter modification, LOADS of people agreed or Nikon would never have spent the time, money and effort working up the second model, there is a definite benefit or it would never have made it to production, especially for a company hard hit by production issues since the issues in Japan and Thailand which virtually halted Lens and Pro-DSLR production, they have a back-order for production as is.
BUT, that justification which lead Nikon to set aside a production line for the 800E was definitely not as scant and fringing on a few paragraphs as us consumers are getting.
Personally, I love the idea of a ” medium format” camera that doesn’t require a lottery win, especially for landscape images and if you have seen Nick Brandt’s images at full size, some subjects do benefit from a large image size, better yet, ( Elephants on postcard sized images just aren’t the same) it cost the equivalent of one Kidney as apposed to both for the D4, I can live with that, not the D4 costing.
What DOES IRRITATE ME is the lack of in depth information related to the D800E, Nikon should really invest more effort in clearing up the benefit, WHY is it better for finer detail, WHAT should the criteria be when deciding between the D800 models, NOTHING would be worse than coughing up the extra spleen to add to the already sold kidney to pay for the D800E only to find that with NIK or Lightroom 4, you cant tell the difference between the 2 camera’s post RAW processing.