D800 is here..

[Lance B]

Ha! Ha! Haven't used it yet - not even unsealed. And that's the way it will stay until I go to Peru again next month.

That makes sense.

[Xebadir]

Anyone else feel like some is telling porkies about actually having a D800 - no box no proof? :P.

[Chris G]

Chris, Interesting. I got a similar email from Camerapro so I am wondering when you made your order?

I ordered on 10 Feb and they said:



I think they have been very good keeping us informed and at the Canon 5DMK3 preview, they told me that they had received over 200 preorders. I reckon they must be as frustrated as we are....

I guess I could be bribed to swap positions in the queue...

Bahhahaha indeed its from camera pro but I didn't order until march 26th.. So yeh sucks for me and anyone else who has ordered after that date

PS: I have some baked cookies will that do as a bribe?

EDIT: Red didnt you say you had the D800 a couple of weeks back in this thread.. And YES you can atleast post a pic of the BOX you B*^#$)(& and all the rest that goes with that LOL

[Tommo1965]

hes the same bloke that reckons you can get a D700 for $1790 brand new...smells a tad fishy ..or is he a industry insider with special contacts ...who buys a new camera and leaves it in the box still sealed up after two weeks !!!

[Lazyshooter]

PS: I have some baked cookies will that do as a bribe?

I have to ask, what type of cookies.....?

[Xebadir]

EDIT: Red didnt you say you had the D800 a couple of weeks back in this thread.. And YES you can atleast post a pic of the BOX you B*^#$)(& and all the rest that goes with that LOL

Heh, he clearly doesn't know how to tease well enough. Now a real b#^@^$! would take a picture of the sealed box with the date and time next to it and put it up, updating it each day just to piss more and more people off, and then one day before a person who was getting the most frustrated got their opening his :P. Clearly he hasn't spent sadistic hours on this sort of thing like me though

[Chris G]

I have to ask, what type of cookies.....?

Haha um, ones I can't post a pic of...

[ricktas]

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[Chris G]

Sorry about that Captain Ricktas.. *salutes*

[rodw]

Rick, I forgive them all I have a very thick skin (and a long memory..)

Sorry, the only sealed box I got today was my free LR4 upgrade. I wish I had some of the inside running.

Chris, I dont think I have much good news for you and your delivery. CameraPro had over 200 preorders as at March 22, when I previewed the Canon 5DMk3 so you will need more than cookies to swap places!

If that is the number of orders from just one dealer in Austalia, I can't see how Nikon's production of 30,000 a month will go very far around the globe. I suspect Chris (and I) may be waiting longer than we expect. If you recall Nikon made their first cameras available earlier than expected. I suspect that Canon's release may have prompted them to trickle out a few just before they stopped for stocktake which was an opportunity for them to stockpile a few more. I really think that Nikon will increase prices in more markets than the UK with this crazy demand for the product once a few more are out in the wild.

Now I am home, I had a look at the cards I have. A Lexar 32 gb 400x Compact flash ( I think that is 60 mb/s) and a Lexar 32 gb 600x (90 mb/s) SD card. I recently purchased these from forum sponsor Cheap as Chips for $338 for the 2. I've also got an older Lexar 8gb (300x) card I bought from them a few years ago. All of these are listed in the D800 manual as being compatible. I was optimistic as I wanted the on hand in case I had the D800 by Easter. It was hard to find the right cards that were in stock when I ordered the 32 gb ones.

[rirakuma]

Just finished work and luckily someone was home to accept the D800 delivery. Some initial shots nothing fancy, I resized them smaller because I have slow net. Will be happy to answer questions if anyone wants me to test/check something.

[Chris G]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Here a question: Please tell me these photos are SOOC.

oh oh and what lens?

I just wet myself..

[I @ M]

Thanks rirakuma, you have just gone down in history as the first person to post an image taken with a D800 on AP.

There have been others claim to have the camera in their hot little hands but we all know what the net is like and without a picture it simply didn't happen.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Here a question: Please tell me these photos are SOOC.

oh oh and what lens?

I just wet myself..

Chris you really need to get an exif viewer mate.

Going by that handy little tool, the image has been through Lightroom 4.0 and the lens used is a Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF.2 at F/2.0 on the box image and a 105mm F/2.8 at F/5.6 on the other 2.

[Chris G]

Thanks rirakuma, you have just gone down in history as the first person to post an image taken with a D800 on AP.

There have been others claim to have the camera in their hot little hands but we all know what the net is like and without a picture it simply didn't happen.



Chris you really need to get an exif viewer mate.

Going by that handy little tool, the image has been through Lightroom 4.0 and the lens used is a Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/50 ZF.2 at F/2.0 on the box image and a 105mm F/2.8 at F/5.6 on the other 2.

Haha Cheers Andrew...

[rirakuma]

Thats right Andrew! For some reason ViewNX was so slow I couldn't even see the images that were in the D800, I had to extract them by clicking the d800 icon and navigating through the folder. I opened the .nef in lightroom and converted them to JPEG, these are SOOC.

[arthurking83]

which version of ViewNX?

if you have a 64bit PC, is your version of ViewNX v2.3 or greater and 64bit?
It does work than the older versions, and any version lower than v2.3 won't recognise D800 files anyhow.
Your CD(in the D800 box) should have v2.3 at the least ... possibly v2.3.1(latest version).

[Chris G]

In other news:

The latest addition to this site's database of camera memory card test data, now called the CF/SD/XQD Performance Database, is the Nikon D800. We put over 170 CompactFlash and SD/SDHC/SDXC cards from 20 makers through Nikon's newest digital SLR.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/cam...cid=6007-12451

[arthurking83]

Yeah, did you see the D4 performance data?

It seems XQD is the way to go in future(see other thread!)

[Chris G]

Yeh I did check that out, files where screaming across

I'm surprised Nikon didn't add the XQD to the D800 but I guess if they did it would of be counter productive for sales.. lol

[arthurking83]

On another note, check out the speed of the Lexar card at the top of the D800 list compared to the same card on a Canon 5DIII!!
Much faster than on the D800 ... so it seems that Nikon don't seem to have the camera to card interface as optimised as Canon seem to have got.

It'll be interesting to see how well the Canon D1X performs compared to the D4, as the Canon is technically faster(in ultimate FPS rates) yet it only has CF card slots.


Anyhow.. back onto the D800 topics .... The D800 was probably signed off on just before the quake/tsunami issue in Japan, and compounded with the Thai flood issue, the delay was probably close to a year or maybe more.... it was a very late update for the D700 even by Nikon's standard timing.
It seems that the D800 was never going to be fitted with a XQD slot, and as I remember, Nikon pushed hard in late 2011 to have the XQD format ratified by the Compact Flash Association.
They almost certainly did this as they planned from day one to have the D3 successor fitted with XQD, and some of the other members were tardy in approving the format.

So the D4 was barely lucky to have an XQD card slot at all, as in late 2011 the XQD format was finally ratified, and abotu 3 months later Nikon announced the D4!
It's rare for a totally new card format to be 'conceived' and a camera to have one in such quick time.

The XQD format was supposed to be the CFast card format, which is the successor to the CF format, but the CFast format obviously morphed and evolved as time went by, and we ended up with XQD instead.