Well I broke the bank today after selling all of my older Canon equipment and replaced it with a new Nikon D800 and Sony NEX-7. I'm like a new kid in a candy shop.
How do you like your new D800? What kind of pictures are you taking with it?
I have 5 Nikon lenses from my previous film photography experience so the d800 is a good choice for me. I also have a Canon G10 for casual photo work so I believe our thinking is somewhat the same. There are some shots better taken with a DSLR than a small camera. I imagine that, in your industry, the detail available with that 36megapixel imager would be a great benefit.As a die heart Canon shooter from the past, I can honestly say I'm very impressed with the D800 image quality, and choose it over a 5D Mark III to collaborate equipment with my wife extensive collection of Nikon lenses and decided it made sense for us to go that route,and she refuses to shoot with Canon.
The D800 took some time getting use to. The grip and hand comfort level is not as good as the Mark III in my opinion. If you shoot in Raw with the D800, get use to dealing with large image sizes upward to 80MB plus.
If you're looking for an all round camera the D800 is not geared toward that market and that's the reason I added the NEX-7 my bag as a general purpose camera.
I primarily shoot the D800 for R&D photo documentation with in the Aviation industry.
As a die heart Canon shooter from the past, I can honestly say I'm very impressed with the D800 image quality, and choose it over a 5D Mark III to collaborate equipment with my wife extensive collection of Nikon lenses and decided it made sense for us to go that route,and she refuses to shoot with Canon.
The D800 took some time getting use to. The grip and hand comfort level is not as good as the Mark III in my opinion. If you shoot in Raw with the D800, get use to dealing with large image sizes upward to 80MB plus.
If you're looking for an all round camera the D800 is not geared toward that market and that's the reason I added the NEX-7 my bag as a general purpose camera.
I primarily shoot the D800 for R&D photo documentation with in the Aviation industry.
I think the D800 is fine for most purposes, but not the 800e for obvious reasons. I agree with you on comfort, the grip is not particularly comfortable for use over longer periods of time. I say that however, since I use a D3s as my other camera, and the shape of it is very good.
The D800e in particular is insane, the level of detail one can obtain with it is phenomenal. One outrageous thing with it is when I put the 300mm F/4 lens on it and photograph some planes flying over my place on the SID out of YSSY - I'm about 30km out from YSSY and I can clearly see the registration under the wing of the plane from the ground along with the registration on the side of the plane. This is at something like 30% crop, and it is pretty sharp too. Insane!
Congrats!
Why a NEX instead of a Nikon V1 or J1 that can share the Nikon DSLR lenses and give you extreme reach with the DSLR lenses via a 2.7 crop factor?
the 36mp of the D800 is simply amazing. but i went canon. and i dont think im going back
Cool. I guess I am too used to wanting max range to shoot wildlife. You will likely not go wrong with Leica lenses.![]()