I'm envious! I'm going to Woomera on Sunday for 3 nights then Alice and Uluru the week after for 7 nights and I'm hoping my 800E will arrive by the second trip at least! Will be a shame to 'waste' those dark skies.
Nothing too wrong with the D7000 though! Work wants me to do a timelapse of a demolition at Woomera too - double damn the D800 isn't here with its timelapse function!
I'm first in line for an 800E at my camera shop so that's a plus, considering that they only got 3 D800's in then 2 more after 'abusing' the supplier. Haha. They sold the same day apparently. There are 5D mark III's sitting on the shelf even after selling a few each week. Looks like the demand for the D800 everywhere has restricted supply dramatically, or they just aren't making enough yet (compared to the 5D). My shop also said the D800 is absolutely amazing and predict it will become the best selling camera of all time! They said the detail and sharpness in heavily cropped images is stunning. Can't wait to test that out on wildlife!
I've also ordered/about to order some new pro quality glass - Nikon 500mm AiS f4, Nikon 80-200 AFS f2.8, Nikon 14-24 f2.8, Nikon 105mm AiS macro and probably get a Nikon 50 1.2 or 35 f1.4. Should keep me going for a while! All second hand but appear near perfect condition, and apart from the 14-24, so much cheaper than the new release lenses, and not that old really! Most of these were made in the early 2000's. These have no VR but I've found it of little use in the lenses I've used, plus back in the old days they still took great images without it! Guess I'll need sme new filters too though...
Also looking at an Astrotrac, or something a bit beefier to put most of these on.
Hopefully this will be a good setup! Can't wait to update my signature too!
