Nikon Japan issued a statement today that the amount of D800 pre-orders have greatly exceeded the amount of produced cameras. They also confirmed that the D800 is scheduled to launch on March 22, 2012. It’s interesting that Nikon did not make such statement about the D4. Amazon and B&H still have the D800 release date […]
A month with the Nikon D800: Interview with Jim Brandenburg (he made the statement “I think the plan was to have it released sooner” – if you remember, the D800 was supposed to be announced earlier). See the full version here.
If you did not get the new iPad today, here is something else to fill your weekend – the Nikon D800/D800 user’s manual is now available for download. Enjoy!
According to Nikon USA tech support the Nikkor PC-E 24mm f/3.5D ED lens cannot be used with shifting and tilting on the Nikon D800. This discussion has been going on for few days now in the NR comments section and on Twitter and Nikon USA has not updated their response online which makes me think that this […]
Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the first D800 books – “Mastering the Nikon D800” by Darrell Young (publisher: Rocky Nook): Mastering the Nikon D800 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D800 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often […]
The Nikon D4 camera is again open for pre-order on Amazon with a release date of March 20th, 2012. Amazon stopped taking pre-orders just few hours after the D4 announcement. They probably now know how many cameras they will get in the first shipment and started taking pre-orders again. Update: Nikon D800 and D800E pre-orders are also […]
This is another high ISO comparison between the Nikon D700 and a pre-production D800 (see also this related post). Here are details from the reader who shot the images (click on samples for larger view): Here are some noise comparisons I have made in all ISO levels between D700 & D800 from ISO1600 to ISO […]
Here is a quick specs comparison between the Nikon D800 and the new Canon EOS 5D Mark III:
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