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Originally Posted by gregbradley
I don't see any downside to the 800E at this point and there is a slight gain.
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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.
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The main downsides to lack of an AA filter show up if you like to do video stuff. Moire is easy enough to correct on a single frame but with video downsampling and compressing the moire effect it becomes impossible to correct where it shows up. The BBC initially issued a memorandum about the 5DmkII for that reason, it had too weak of an AA filter and was banned for use by BBC productions without seeking special permission. Mind you I think the people who buy a still camera for video are
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I don't have an issue with file size from a storage point of view, and I should have an issue with beasty computer either. I have 16GB of RAM and DSS gets no where near this limit before it complains about being out of memory. Actually it doesn't even approach the 32bit limit of 3.5GB either so at this point I'm putting it down to a bug in DSS. My best effort so far has been 100 odd frames after a fresh reboot with only DSS running. It crashed at the end but left itself enough time to save the Autosave file
Also TIFF won't help you:
Typical NEF lossless compressed: 25-45MB
NEF uncompressed: 54MB
TIFF: 105MB
The problem is TIFF works at 8bit or 16bit so there's quite a bit of waste compared to NEF which records the native 14bit.
My girlfriend is an Olympus shooter and she's drooling over an OMD at the moment.