On 11/22/2012 2:35 AM, Me wrote:
On 20/11/2012 12:21 p.m., Rob wrote:
On 15/11/2012 4:31 PM, Me wrote:
On 15/11/2012 2:21 p.m., Savageduck wrote:
On 2012-11-14 12:37:38 -0800, Me said:

On 15/11/2012 4:16 a.m., PeterN wrote:
On 11/14/2012 1:05 AM, Trevor wrote:
"PeterN" wrote in message
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According to some comparisons I read, the differences between the
600
and
the 800 are not that great. Indeed, because it has less pixels, the
low
light noise level of the 600 is less than the 800.

But not when the D800 image is averaged down to the same number of
pixels!
You simply get a choice with the D800 you don't have with the D600.
Both would more than satisfy most people however.

Yep!
For me that's the tipping point in favor of the 800, plus the fact
that
I can be pretty rough on my equipment. And I strongly prefer using
the
CF card. (Harder to loose.)

Pity the selling price of the D800 has increased here lately so
as to
make
the D600 competitive (or it wouldn't be!) Aided of course by the
fact the
Canon 5D3 was more expensive, allowing Nikon to increase their price
:-(




At PC Expo in NY they were selling the D800 for $2,600, really
narrowing
the gap.

http://www.adorama.com/INKD800R.html...ce=rflaid63773





Note

the word, "refurbished". I suspect this means inventory which has had
the focus fixing firmware update.


...which I haven't been following very closely, but my understanding was
that as it was an AF sensor module physical alignment issue, there were
differing opinions on how successful firmware re-calibration was.
Buying a new later serial number "generally regarded as safe" D800 might
be worth the extra few hundred $ for peace of mind.
I might not be the only one thinking this - that $400 discount "refurb"
deal has been on offer from Adorama for a while, so either they've got a
huge pile of D800s to dispose of, or they're not selling very fast.
Meanwhile, there seem to be grey market D600s appearing for sale here
(NZ) at an equivalent price including tax indicating that they're being
procured (in Asia) for well below US MSRP. Perhaps there will be good
discounts on the D600 in the US after Xmas, that also coinciding with
the Canon 6d shipping.
I want either a D600 or D800, I'm a bit ambivalent about which one would
suit my needs better. I want the D800, but I know that I probably don't
need it.

Yes you do and don't be afraid to get the 800E

One of my concerns about the D800 was raw file size and dealing with
them on PC.
I've been playing around with D800 raws on a relatively modest core i7
3612QM laptop with 8GB RAM (connected to external monitor). It actually
handles D800 raws much better/faster than my previous C2D machine with
D300 raws, using CaptureNX2. The C2D machine was really state of the
art at the time I bought the D300. More cores plus hyperthreading seems
to suit CaptureNX, 8GB ram seems ample.
I don't want a desktop any more, and did not want to spend the kind of
$$$ than some of the losers on DP review forums insist that you
"absolutely need" to deal with the raw files. It's completely not true
- except perhaps for machine-gunners who batch process files by the
thousand - and video of course.
That's one objection to the D800 - raw file size - that I don't have to
worry about.

I process them easily on a three year old quad core i7, with 8 gig of
RAM. It takes a lot longer for Bridge to assemble the viewing
information, than the time for my D300 files. I anticipate even longer
times when I start shooting 14 bit color depth.


--
Peter