Beautiful! I got my D800 last week and I'm loving it. I also got the chance to test video under a controlled lighting situation and was very happy with what i saw. Very clean even on a big screen.
I'm finding that with stills, I really don't need to do any more HDR work than I can do developing the RAW files in Lightroom 4. It seems like the sensor has HDR built-in, because it does.
David: Top icon (> Playback display options. 2ndly...that's all ya get in FX 4 lousy fps...5 in crop mode.
Wish they hadn't crippled it to consumer body #'s (for 3 freakin' K) but it is what it is and I've managed to work around it thus far. GL
lxdesign wrote:
Ok guys..... Stupid question. I tried googling it. How do I turn on the highlights review? And secondly......m why is my high only stuck at 4fps......
Add a Nikon grip (around $500) and you get 5fps FX and 6 fps DX. Speed isn't its thing. You have a camera with a small battery and buffer, so, no sense lamenting its fps.
trenchmonkey wrote:
David: Top icon (> Playback display options. 2ndly...that's all ya get in FX 4 lousy fps...5 in crop mode.
Wish they hadn't crippled it to consumer body #'s (for 3 freakin' K) but it is what it is and I've managed to work around it thus far. GL
I know that 4fps seems slow but do the math - 4 x 36 = 144meg/second. The D4 is 10 x 16 = 160meg/second. If the D800 was 5fps it would exceed the throughput of the D4! So I'm not sure it's crippled at all. When you think about it, 36 x 4 is a massive amount of data. Now, if the soon to arrive D600 is 24meg as the rumors suggest and has a frame rate of less than about 6 you might have a point.
4 lousy fps...5 in crop mode. 
That's DX 
(6 is possible using the right batts) FX remains at 4, regardless. 