Probably. Ok....ok....I always error to caution and was thinking the D4 would be my camera. Something tells me that the D800 is going to be better for my type of work than I imagine.
I wonder how many of the enthusiastic early-adopter, wait-listers have the stellar lenses required for a 36MP sensor.
Oh, the wailing that will rise up in the land when they plop on their trusty Tamy or endearingly squeaky Nikkor 17-35 zoom and exclaim in multi-lingual horror, "Dude, where's my image? For €£$3000, this sucks!"
j.liam wrote:
I wonder how many of the enthusiastic early-adopter, wait-listers have the stellar lenses required for a 36MP sensor.
Oh, the wailing that will rise up in the land when they plop on their trusty Tamy or endearingly squeaky Nikkor 17-35 zoom and exclaim in multi-lingual horror, "Dude, where's my image? For €£$3000, this sucks!"
A cheap lens isn't going to be any worse on a D800 than it does on a D700 or D7000. Sure, the D800 will reveal more of the flaws when you pixel peep, but a lens that is adequate on a D700 certainly isn't going to become unusable if you attach it to a D800.
CRFTony wrote:
A cheap lens isn't going to be any worse on a D800 than it does on a D700 or D7000. Sure, the D800 will reveal more of the flaws when you pixel peep, but a lens that is adequate on a D700 certainly isn't going to become unusable if you attach it to a D800.
Indeed.
And then you have people like me whose camera body is one of the cheaper parts of the system.
I don't foresee a D800 giving the PC-Es or 70-200s any issues
CRFTony wrote:
A cheap lens isn't going to be any worse on a D800 than it does on a D700 or D7000. Sure, the D800 will reveal more of the flaws when you pixel peep, but a lens that is adequate on a D700 certainly isn't going to become unusable if you attach it to a D800.
I agree...unless you're regularly printing from 100% crops you're not going to notice anything on a D800 file you didn't notice on the D700 file.
I'd love to sell my D3s to get one, but by the time I added the grip I'd be under water on the deal, and wife says no more spendy spendy.
CRFTony wrote:
A cheap lens isn't going to be any worse on a D800 than it does on a D700 or D7000. Sure, the D800 will reveal more of the flaws when you pixel peep, but a lens that is adequate on a D700 certainly isn't going to become unusable if you attach it to a D800.
Don't think so.
Suggested reading from Lloyd Chambers' website, scroll down to the section about lenses:
He also discusses issues relating to sensor alignment as well. It will present the user with additional variables to consider and if you imagine a 36MP sensor will be as forgiving as a 12, you're in for a rude surprise. While the D800 may be a scaled up D7k in sheer pixel number, you now have to contend with corner performance and the appearance of diffraction at wider apertures, precluding stopping down as a cure for the other new ills.
