OnSite Photography ca wrote:
The D810 was just released today and I went out to a local camera shop to test one out. Everything seems to be improved, but the thing that I noticed first and really like is the larger grip.

Just two years after the release of the D800?? This is probably what the D800 was SUPPOSED to be.

LUNA_PHOTOGRAPHY  wrote:
Just two years after the release of the D800?? This is probably what the D800 was SUPPOSED to be.

On the other hand, many companies like being able to sell something to the same customer every 2 or 3 years.

I would not mind checking one out, but I doubt I could get enough out of my D800 to make such an upgrade reasonable or feasible.

However, if they had some way that if the viewfinder went full-screen in DX mode instead of being just the rectangle in the middle, that would sell me on it (in addition to dampening, etc)

StromePhoto wrote:
Does that mean it needs another battery grip that isn't compatible with the D800?

You can still use the MB-D12. The only difference between the 800 and 810 models is it's slightly larger, it's 1 fps faster, and the ISO has been bumped to 51200.

J O H N  A L L A N wrote:
Noticed that they permanently removed the anti-aliasing filter this time (glad I bought the E)

The reason why I bought another D800. I've had sufficient aliasing problems to want to keep a D800 handy.

That said the new D810 is better than the D800e regarding the anti alias filter. The D800e has a sort of anti alias filter that filters and then reverses itself. I think this was done so as to keep body and sensor placement, AF module and all the same in the D800 and D800e. With the D810 there is no AA filter at all or filters to make it compatible with an AA model.

Call it natively with no AA filter, while the D800e has a sort of AA filter place holder.

Regarding Aliasing and the D810. I have sen aliasing with the D810 raw files developed in Photoshop that did not show up in the D800 files. Still worth having both if you can

J O H N  A L L A N wrote:
They brought down standard ISO from 100 to 64 (yeah!).
Increased resolution on the back display
Faster processor

There is more to it than that.

Sensor is quite different. It's a bit early to say so with more precision, but so far I have found the files from the D810 to be even more robust than from the D800 and D800e.

Shadows are significantly improved and the flexibility of the files is significantly better and this was with a ISO 100 to ISO 100 comparison. As I said it's a bit early to say, but it looks like a significant increase in dynamic range...

You mentioned the LCD improvements. Quite a significant difference for anyone that shoots liveview with an LCD loupe. Much clearer image for manual focusing.

Micro detail gains are better with the d810 compared to the D800e, but you'll need to be enlarging a lot to see it.

However there is an advantage that you will be using less sharpening so cleaner files over all.

Also Nikon had done dome brilliant AA algorithm work. The same algorithm in camera will spill over to Nikon's RAW processors.

I think that the more we see from the D810 people will appreciate the new Model update thing Nikon is doing.

The D810 update leads me to believe that Nikon is unto something possibly quite radical with a mirror less FF camera.

The improved live view and video readout from the sensor could be a hint of what we might see in a mirror less.