the D700 runs circles around the latest and greatest full frames. Nikon got it right at that time. It was downhill after that. Get the D700 and you will have a camera that you could practically keep until it breaks.
The D700 cannot render any of the detail the rest are showing. Youre also viewing them all at 1:1, view the rest at a 12MP size and they'll look much better.
look at the blue feathers above, the D700 is rendering them as a blur, the rest are picking up individual strands.
yeah, look at them at the same viewing size:
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Which sensor is running the circles? One of them has signicantly cleaner noise and more fine detail.
I can make any image look cleaner by stepping backward a few inches. The question is, what's the largest print you ever did with your camera? A 2Mp camera can fill a billboard. Fact.
I only care about how it looks viewed on screen.
and the D700 looks bad compared to modern FX sensors.
Viewed on screen the D800 and D600 look awful compared to the D700. Look at the comparison I originally posted. Night and day.
I posted the exact same comparing in a scenario that people will actually view two photos at. The D700 looks worse -- it's turned details into blury mush.
Your comparison is purposefully flawed to achieve your desired result. Why would I look at two photos, but one larger than the other?
That would be like comparing how a D700 and D600 prints, but printing the D700 image a 4x6" and the D600 at 11x17".
You said you only wanted to pixel peep on screen. I gave you pixel peep output straight from DPReview. I did not fabricate that data.
So make up your mind. Do you want to print or do you want to pixel peep?