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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 276991" data-attributes="member: 9240">Every tool has its uses.  I bought the D800 when I wanted to upgrade my D7000 for wildlife and birds.  I'd purchased a D600 and the difference in IQ I saw from the D7000 was significant enough that I wanted better high ISO performance for birds since I frequently need to shoot at 1/1000 for birds in flight, and the D7000 got noisy around ISO 800.  I was ready to pull the trigger on the D7100, but its buffer fills and the camera stalls after 1 second of continuous RAW shooting, an unacceptable stat for a bird photographer.  I did some deep deliberation (there's a thread here with the details) and decided the D800 gave me a better alternative as a second camera to my D600 - a camera that would shine in the studio and make for great high res landscapes, and a camera that would provide me the performance and IQ I wanted for wildlife, while allowing me to shoot in DX mode, with its added reach, when I need to and still get 16MP images.  The added bonus is that when shooting in DX, the reduced file size also increases the number of shots I can take before the buffer fills on the D800 (I can go about 4 seconds in FX and twice that in DX).  And while there may not be a lot of applications where you need 8 seconds of continuous shooting, an Eagle or Owl in flight coming at you, circling or coming in for a kill is definitely one of them.So yes, there are some of us who bought the D800 to use in crop mode.  Not all the time, but definitely some of the time.  Sure, you can crop later, and I often do.  But when I know I'm going to have to, if I can save time on import and space on my hard drive when all it takes is a quick press of a button and turn of a wheel, I'm going to.  Why waste time and space?</blockquote>

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