Nikon D800 Nikon

Our friends over at Popular Photography got themselves a look at the new Nikon D800 DSLR, the followup to the well-liked D700 and the soon-to-be little brother to Nikon's newest Official Big Boy Camera (note: this is not an official term used by Nikon (though maybe it should be? Call us, Nikon)), the D4. The D800 is equipped with a whopping 36.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, a pumped-up image processor, and a 51-point autofocus system, but there's a new focus on video as well--this thing is head and shoulders beyond the D700 in the video department. Read more over at PopPhoto.

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Wow the mega pixs, but how much has the noise incressed?

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