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This camera is without doubt the most exciting camera on the market bar none. I have seen comparison photos of its real competition which is the Pentax 645 $12,000 medium format camera. The D800 is very close to it. The Pentax is a tad better hardly noticeable and the D800E probably is much closer.
High ISO performance in RAW is much the same as the 5D mark iii. Jpeg performance high ISO performance goes to Canon by a stop or so thanks to aggressive noise reduction in the Canon which also reduces red clarity and increase smear and loss of detail although still very good. The real competition to this camera is not really the 5D mark iii but the medium format cameras.
Its a bit early to tell if the video capabilities will match the 5D mark iii though which no doubt will be excellent.
So overall its a medium format camera with top notch autofocus and top of the line metering for $3000 in a market of Medium Format that was just a few years ago selling cameras for $25,000 to $50,000.
Seeing as a high number of medium format camera makers fail in the market I would not buy shares in Phase One etc.
Greg.
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