Nikon D800 ::

I've been shooting with the D800 for a couple of months now and I'm still learning my way around the menu, which is a bit different from the other Nikons that I use, but I'm gradually getting used to it. The first thing that I found was that continuous shooting is much slower than the D700, but it is adjustable, to some extent, in the custom menu choices. The highest rate is still 5 frames/second. I'm going to have to check the continuous shooting rate on the D700, but the 700 is much faster. I attribute most of that to the fact that it just takes longer to process a 36 meg raw file, especially with the 8 gig cards that I'm using right now. I have a 24 gig high speed card ordered which should be in very soon and I'm hoping that will make a difference.

I shot a panorama of the Marshall Space Flight Center last week from the top of a building facing north and I was very happy with the results. I also shot a conference last week and, as usual, the lighting was challenging so I shot almost the entire event at an ISO of 5000 and I was very happy with the results. There was some noise, but, for my purposes, it was not excessive. I'm getting ready to order some noise reduction software which should alleviate this situation. All in all I absolutely love the D800. The raw files open up to 16x24 at 300ppi so I would have no problem interpolating up to 96 inches although I haven't tried it yet. That may be my project for later this week with the panorama I shot last week.

I would have posted the panorama here, but it is living on a server at work right now and I didn't think about bringing the image home with me. Not to mention that, in my experience, panoramas generally don't translate well to the web!