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Some Answers
In reply to Old Ed,
6 months ago
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I want to go FX soon. The question is: D600 or D800.
I suspect you'll be happy with either. Both offer excellent image quality. The D600 doesn't have as much resolution, but is faster when shooting in full FX mode. I personally have a D600.
But wait, not so fast. DX lenses look ugly through the D600 finder. I heard somewhere that the D800 finder masks down to DX when using those lenses. True or False?
Both the D800 and D600 will mask out the unused part of the finder in crop mode, but only if you turn off AF point illumination.
Also, I know that the D800 can shoot lower mp images. But I don't know whether the D800 is just throwing away pixels in those modes, or making good use of all pixels through some kind of averaging or binning. Could someone please tell me? I wouldn't feel at all bad shooting lower-mp-but-lower-noise images while saving up for my 100 TB supercomputer.
If you're shooting JPG, I believe the camera does use binning or averaging. But if you're using a crop mode to bring down the pixel count, you're just using fewer pixels.
I also see the 4:5 aspect ratio choices as a huge advantage. (3:2 is nasty to my eye, and losing the 3:2 "shoulders" would be a perfect way to lose some unwanted mp.) Can anyone comment on whether 4:5 works well? And does it mask the finder in some way?
On the Nikon D3, it does mask. I'm positive that it'll also mask on the D800, as long as you turn off AF point illumination.
Lastly, I wasn't too happy with the recently published D600 "teardown." It's construction seems more unserviceable/disposable than I'd like. I'd like to believe that the D800 is more serviceable, not just heavier. Does anyone know? Has anyone seen a D800 "teardown?"
Other D800 pluses include more/better controls, USB3, and maybe a few more. So the D800 is definitely in the hunt.
Yes, I'm aware of the whole left-AF issue, and Nikon's poor response. But I don't know whether there is any hard evidence that this problem is resolved in current production. Do any of you know? (Guessing won't help me.)
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