Is it safe to buy the D800 now?

rockwell reports I just realized Nikon's big deception: the D600, D800, D800E and D4 are all the same cameras designed and produced in parallel at the same time and all have the same insides, producing the same images with the same processing power, same LCDs, same green-shift problems and identical AF controls. They differ only in exterior packaging and when Nikon chose to announce them to make them appear different

... Thom Hogan, who you often like to quote from a personal email or facebook as stating privately to you that 80% of the alleged defective units are really user error, has recently stated - publicly by the way - that the number of effected units ranges in his estimate to be between 10 and 40%.

And it's still not safe to go into the water ... still defective units new off the line popping up, according to Thom.

In my 25+ years of experience on the manufacturing side of things, trust me on this: when it comes to defectives, more than a few percentage points - in total, all issues combined - is serious. High single digits is a crisis, recall time. 10% is a catastrophe. I would not want to be anyone connected with the D800 at Nikon HQ these days.

And this is all on just one issue, the defective left Af bank. On a precision instrument. A $3,000 precision instrument.

The other joke is that there have been far too many credible skilled professionals and amateurs, regular posters well respected by all, who have debunked your page 100 fixation.

You're claiming no one has shown you a valid picture of a forest on the basis that every photo you have seen has too many trees in the way.