Nikon has officialy announced this week two full-frame DSLR cameras, after we heard a hundreds of rumors about it, now the things has been officially revealed. The first is the D800 that come to succeed the D700, a low-cost variant of the marvelous Nikon D3. Almost four years after the announcement D700, which was shared the same sensor as the D3, the newcomer is in turn complementary to the D4, announced just month ago. Nikon and Canon compete in the same area, with a box for reporters and another for the studios.
The D800 has a 36.3 megapixel (7360 x 4912) FX-format, CMOS sensor, the highest resolution sensor on any Nikon camera so far "first seen at demonstration of a CMOS sensor of a 33MP developed by NHK & JVC". The sensor’s size is 35.9 x 24mm, which is almost the same as the one on the D4, which is 36.0 x 23.9mm. But the D800 has more than twice the resolution of the D4′s sensor (16.6 megapixel) so the actual pixels are going to be half the size.
The D800 will feature the video recording Full HD 1080p at 30/25/24fps including the stereo sound, the ISO sensitivity range starts from 100 ( while it starts from 200 on the D700), but the maximum is ISO 6400 natively (expandable to 25600), 4 fps burst rate, Advanced Scene Recognition System with 91,000-pixel RGB sensor, EXPEED 3 image processor and a 3.2-inch, 921k dot LCD.
In case you are wondering about the D800E camera, it is almost identical to the D800, except for one difference. The D800E is free from the anti-aliasing properties of the optical low-pass filter (OLPF) found on the D800. This way the light falls directly on the sensor and what you see is the result of the raw potential of the camera without the artificial enhancements of a filter. This model is more suitable for studio work or landscape photography.
The D800 will be available in late March for 2,999 $ and the D800E will be available in mid-April for 3,299 $. You can find some sample images and videos in the link below. Unfortunately, none of them are particularly high resolution, so it’s difficult to tell the level of detail that the 36 megapixel sensor is resolving or how much noise there is in the photos. Hopefully, we’ll see some high-resolution images and videos soon.
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