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Peter, 800 or 800E is a common question on the DPreview Nikon D800 forum.
I don't see any downside to the 800E at this point and there is a slight gain. A bit more microcontrast, DXO sensor score was 1% higher, slightly better colour in dimmer areas, does not need sharpening most of the time.
D800 has a weak AA filter so many comments are its sharp enough and of course it is. But if its about moire then that is a rare phenomenon in my experience but if you image buildings, fabrics a lot then 800 would be better. Otherwise 800E is all good. 800 will show moire as well its just worse in the 800E. Moire removal tools work reasonably well and there is a good tutorial on the net about how to remove luminance moire (there's colour moire and there is luminance moire which is harder to remove).
Another handy feature is the virtual horizon. Tilted images are a thing of the past. It shows a plane like horizon ball in live view which you can turn on or off with one button once setup and also an arrow system in the view finder. Love that.
Auto ISO with minimum shutter speed is a popular feature as well.
What is the autofocus crosshairs at all apertures feature you mention?
Which medium format lenses are you referring to? Won't these also fit on a Canon?
That is another big plus for a Nikon. All earlier lenses will fit it. You get an autofocus assist when doing manual focusing where arrows appear in the viewfinder indicating which way to turn the focus ring and a circle appears when it is in focus on a manual lens. That is invaluable.
On the other hand you can get a Novoflex and others' adapter to use Nikon lenses on Canon cameras but not the other way around. Which is annoying as some Canon lenses are better than Nikon equivalents and vice versa.
Chris, file sizes are an issue. A RAW image is something like 40mb and it takes up a lot of hard disk fast.
An external hard disk drive is needed for this camera not that other cameras have tiny file sizes but the D800's are large. I haven't tried stacking images yet but I imagine you need a strong computer like an i5 on up. My FLI 16803 images are 32.4mb so I got a computer that could handle that. Its an i7. It will stack up to about 16 images at once at a stretch. Or I do 10 at a time and then stack the stacked images.
Greg.
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