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Lexar 1000x CF cards are about all I use in the D800. I shoot lossless compressed RAW. 16GB says it will hold 199 or 200 (which is the uncompressed count). I typically get 300 to 350, depending on...

The D800e is my first Nikon. I still own a 1Ds III and a 1D IV. I don't use them often today, but I used one recently, and I was shocked how much I'd missed certain features. If Canon brought out a...

The Canon 135mm f/2L has been around a long time. The only calls for its replacement appear to be from those who want IS on it.

This was the first L prime I bought. I still use it. The other two...

Thinktank Retro 10 with a D800e + 24-70. It's a little shallow if you go for a 70-200, but it can be done. The grey cotton version doesn't look like a camera bag.

Yes, Australia has one (or two in summer) time zones that are on a half hour offset (+9.5 in winter, +10.5 in summer in SA; NT stays on +9.5 all year round) from UTC. India is another country with...

The firmware for the camera is not particularly large. A map database to support setting the time-zone from GPS coordinates would (almost certainly) be larger than the firmware!

I have a couple of the Sandisk FW readers lying around, but these days I use the Sandisk USB3 reader into a Windows box or on a Macbook Pro Retina - it's a lot faster than the FW.

Australian states have changed their rules for daylight savings time two or three times this decade - it's not as easy to track as you think. The borders between countries and states are not always...

Hard disk space is measured in powers of 10, not powers of 2. So 1TB = 1 000 000 MB. In my experience a D800E camera RAW in 14 bit lossless compressed can be any size from about 30MB to over 50MB....

Not the Lexar 1000x CF cards - they live up to the spec. I am using 32GB Lexar 1000x CF cards. I have Sandisk Extreme Pro cards, but they are not even close to the same speed.

Take a scientific approach. Start by shooting just RAW files to just one card, then to the other card. Check that your camera will record RAW files, and that you can handle them. Once you have...

Keep in mind that you are coming from a Canon APS-C body (600D) to a full-frame (D600). So the 10mm on the APS-C has the same field of view of a 16mm on the full-frame (Canon APS-C is 1.6x). The...

My inner pedant insists that I point out that you meant "take heed", rather than "take head" :) I hope you have more than one backup. The minimum considered "safe" is three copies - the main + two...

I have a high-quality Canon kit (many L primes, 1Ds III, and more). I bought a D800E and a variety of lenses.  I do not entirely agree with the OP's comments. Yes, the D800's ability to drag...

There seems to be a mistaken conviction that landscape = wide-angle (check the lenses Ansel Adams used in his landscape work). I tend to shoot my landscape work with a telephoto lens - I like the...

Yes, there was a battery recall, but that was a long time ago (about a year). All the bad batteries have been replaced.

My D800E (very low serial number, almost a year old) has locked up a few times (maybe ten times in all). Only ever happened with relatively low battery (under 25%), and more often with the grip...

Single pixel iframes are highly suspicious. I suggest you remove it (assuming you added it, and it's not a symptom of your site being hacked.

I haven't had enough trouble to be inclined to install the update (if it ain't broke, don't "fix" it). I have had maybe 10 lockups in 11 months, but only when the battery was low - these days I...

When the choice was between uncompressed and lossy compressed, my choice was easy - I don't want to lose any detail, even if the camera thinks it's "unimportant". I think that's why you'll hear...