Mark, you've had the body for some time now. Do you have any other thoughts or feelings about the camera?
Everything that I said in my original post still stands true about the ergonomics. Functionality is seamless. VERY easy to get used to, and very easy to use. I've found very little times where I've had to take my eye from the viewfinder to adjust settings. Video is off the charts amazing. Photos have outstanding detail and, well, everything else is superb. I've still got to get used to the apparent, inherent texture to the photos. At 36MP, it looks a bit different than at 12. It's got a texture to them. I'll see if I can dig up some samples of what I mean. ISO seems perfectly usable to ISO6400. That's the top of the native range, but I can't see any problems with using that in a pinch. Sorry, I don't have a D700, or any other camera besides my IR D60, to compare it directly with. I'm still growing with it, but I honestly can't see me needing anything else for a very long time. I'm interested in seeing how it fares a wedding-type scenario as well. I can't foresee any problems.
OH. And about the 36MP, you better have prettyyyy good technique. They're not very forgiving to camera shake.
goddamnit... now i have to save up 5 grand... first for this camera and a 24-70 2.8... Also i will probably have to wait a year and nikon will most likely up the price of the d800 as well. This seems like am amazing camera. I've got crazy gear lust for the d800 and 24-70 (and 16-35, 85 1.4, and 50 1.8g. Although i could probably get by with just a 16-35 and a 50 1.8 which is the equivelent of my favorite setup on dx.
How are you finding your computer in keeping up with the new image sizes? what kind of computer do u have? i've got a macbook pro with an i7 but if i get the camera i would most likely upgrade to a solid state drive and up the ram to 8gb as well.
The other thing holding me back is, the price of the camera is roughly equivelent to a european holiday, i could get much better images by traveling with my d7000 than buying a d800 and being stuck in suburbia...
Yepp. That's true. But, technically speaking, photo per photo, the photos being popped out of the D800, even in suburbia, are going to be better than the ones popped out of your D7000.
As for the lenses, I'm wrestling now with the idea that I'm going to have to upgrade each one of my lenses. 24-70 Sigma->Nikon 24-70. Nikon 80-200->70-200II. 50/1.8D->Sigma 1.4. Tokina 11-16->Nikkor 14-24. Of course, you could also go the 16/17-35 + 50 + 70-200. But, as an event photographer, I feel it's better to have the first setup.
I have a 15" Macbook Pro with the i7 as well. I don't have any problems editing RAW files in ACR6.9. I'm going to pick up LR whenever they accept the D800 RAW files (maybe they already do?) for editing. Every once in a while, out of the blue, I'll get the swirling rainbow of death. But, that only lasts maybe 2 seconds, then goes right back off. It takes longer, for sure. But, not
much longer at all.
Thanks for the questions everyone! If you have any more, or would like to see specific photos taken with the camera, or certain settings, please let me know! I'll be happy to oblige.
Mark
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