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Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Discontinued

Discontinued — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:09:06 +0000

As long as I get my D800E before May …

Well, I guess not but one can always hope.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by PhotoPaddler

PhotoPaddler — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:02:01 +0000

The NPS crowd probably prefers to use both memory slots for their more serious work (redundancy,etc.). Rich amateurs are probably less concerned about paying $6k for a camera that isn’t fully ready to go compared to available products.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Royster

Royster — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:54:23 +0000

You don’t need both card slots to get the camera working.
I would much rather have the camera now and get the XQD card when it becomes available.

Comment on Nikon D800 vs. D4 specs comparison by Allison

Allison — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:47:30 +0000

Can someone please tell me when Nikon is going to start shipping the D4? I pre-ordered mine back in January. B&H has no updates. I’m getting impatient! This is a huge upgrade. You guys don’t even want to know what camera I’ve been shooting with since 2005.

Comment on Amazon thinks the Nikon D4 will be delivered on February 17th by Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:46:33 +0000

A full time working professional who switched from Canon to Nikon when the D3 came out (who said he is not switching back) said that Canon had much better, and friendlier, support than NPS. Room for improvement?

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by KFA

KFA — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:45:08 +0000

Cyperphoto, dealer in Sweden comfirmed a few days ago the deliverys may be delayed until mid march.

Thats where i bought mine. Damn.. :/

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by SkiPiggy

SkiPiggy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:41:57 +0000

Off topic: anyone know the size of the video files? i.e. how many minutes fit on a 32gb CF card? Do you need a fast card for video? i.e. 600x (90mb/s) or will 400x or less do? I suspect buffer is not an issue with video, but there must be a min speed of the ard to keep up.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Alex

Alex — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:34:04 +0000

Nikon wants to deliver the first batch of D4 bodies exclusively to their NPS members first and they simply have too few units available in stock thats why they want to produce another 4-6 weeks before they actually start to ship. thats what a nikon rep told my dealer when i visited him yesterday. anyways…i have been waiting for close to 9 months for this body and i personally don’t give a sh** if i have to wait another month

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by CaryTheLabelGuy [NR]

CaryTheLabelGuy [NR] — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:28:08 +0000

Great D800 samples shots! The D800/E impresses me every time I see a new high-ISO sample. The grain is very film-like. There is hardly any chroma noise and the luminance noise is very fine, which makes it easy to melt-away in post.

Can you confirm what Noise Reduction settings were used for these shots? Are these JPEGs straight from the camera?

Comment on Nikon at the 2012 CP+ show (pictures, D800 hands-on, D4 demo videos) by Hendog

Hendog — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:07:26 +0000

So where is the d700 replacement? It’s been asked a million times, but I need 12-20 mp (no more) with great low light performance, FX sensor, $3000. Why are my requirements being ignored Nikon? I’m very interested in the D800 for video, but every day I’m getting closer to just going for the D700. Seems such a shame to have to go for older technology simply because there is no other option available.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by PhotoPaddler

PhotoPaddler — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:43 +0000

You won’t have very happy customers if they can only use one of the two memory slots.

B&H and Adorama have neither the XQD memory cards nor the card readers for the XQD media.

Comment on Nikon at the 2012 CP+ show (pictures, D800 hands-on, D4 demo videos) by Mock Kenwell

Mock Kenwell — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:32 +0000

Of course it matters how it looks. But the new look doesn’t put me off.

Comment on Nikon at the 2012 CP+ show (pictures, D800 hands-on, D4 demo videos) by roberto

roberto — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:45:46 +0000

Good quote from Marianne Oelund. from OP’s previous thread:

“If the eventually released D800 is 36 mp wouldn’t you need to either be extremely steady or need a tripod to gain the full benefit of 36mp.

Although 36Mpix sounds like a huge increase over 12Mpix, it only means that the photosite density along each axis is 73% higher.

Increase your shutter speed by 73%, do everything else exactly the same, and you will satisfy a 36Mpix sensor as well as you do a 12Mpix sensor now.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Royster

Royster — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0000

That makes no sense.
Best to deliver the stock you have and get the waiting list down.At least then you have some happy customers and cameras in the public eye.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by shawnino

shawnino — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:41:45 +0000

Rock-solid post; no need to apologise for anything.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by jodjac

jodjac — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:36:23 +0000

I wonder how many people have placed orders that they do not intend to fill- as I read through these posts I see quite a few people casually mention that they intend to cancel one of their orders.
I wonder if we did a poll- do you intend to cancel one or more orders of your new Nikon camera- how many would respond: yes.
The great unknown is the D800e and is it going to behave in the field. I wish Nikon had been more generous with the D 800e samples- showing an unedited shoots from different situations (as opposed to the polished samples chosen as successful). I want to see the contact sheet! I want to know how much moire it will show in real world situations.
Isn’t it a great unknown? Has anyone that tested the camera talked about experiences with miore? The sample on Nikons website with the Japanese woman in a black costume looks like a strong candidate for miore. If they shot that and didn’t have any that would be quite a feat, or did they shoot it and remove it in PP? We don’t know! I want to know! Are we to assume there was no post processing, just conversion from raw to jpg? Did they get lucky? What did the rest of the shoot look like?
The samples from the D800 look pretty damn good! But I love the idea of ditching the AA filter. I can imagine shooting a wedding and havin to remove miore from hundreds or dozens of images. That would be frustrating.
I preordered from Amazon. Is there any way of finding out where one is in ‘line’? How do they keep track of that!

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Royster

Royster — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:35:56 +0000

No delay on the D800 at the moment.

Comment on Nikon at the 2012 CP+ show (pictures, D800 hands-on, D4 demo videos) by emy

emy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:32:15 +0000

Actually, people are going to be surprised at how much better their technique is going to have to become after they get their hands on something like the d800. Prepare for a rash of “why are my shots soft, I spent 3 grand on my D800E and what’s wrong” type of posts in about 2-3 months, guaranteed…

Comment on Nikon at the 2012 CP+ show (pictures, D800 hands-on, D4 demo videos) by roneo

roneo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:29:53 +0000

Rob Van Petten, who shot the Nikon sample photos, mentions this on his blog…

‘The high density sensor is sensitive to motion blur”, causing him problems that he needed to use a tripod when using the 200 f2 with flash in the studio.

So this is just a warning for all you new D800 owners that intend to do a lot of hand held shots!

We are entering a new Hi-MP era and new problems will come with it.

Comment on Adorama estimates the Nikon D4 delivery as “late March 2012″ by Dan

Dan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:24:03 +0000

If you need a D7000, let me know. Like I said in earlier post, there is a palette-full of them at my local costco. I think they’re in the same row as the twinkies.