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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 314208" data-attributes="member: 8705">Not really. A D800 used properly can produce perfectly sharp high quality 36mp images. A D4 cannot produce images of that resolution and that's a fact. Use the D800 in other situations and it will let you know just how bad you technique was if you didn't take care. Down sample the D800 to D4 or D700 pixel size and it will look much the same as those cameras because the errors disappear when you go low res. So in simple terms, the 800 can do things a D4 can't in the same way that the D4 can do things the D800 can't. Personally I like having the option to take the high res image and reduce or crop as it suits my purposes. Also, I don't pixel peep those 36mp images unless I know I took them properly in the first place. It's all horses for courses, but it took me a long time before I appreciated and understood what the D800 was doing for me.We are spending 3 weeks in various US national parks and city's over the coming month. I know which camera I want for the parks and fortunately I already own it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 314208, member: 8705"] Not really. A D800 used properly can produce perfectly sharp high quality 36mp images. A D4 cannot produce images of that resolution and that's a fact. Use the D800 in other situations and it will let you know just how bad you technique was if you didn't take care. Down sample the D800 to D4 or D700 pixel size and it will look much the same as those cameras because the errors disappear when you go low res. So in simple terms, the 800 can do things a D4 can't in the same way that the D4 can do things the D800 can't. Personally I like having the option to take the high res image and reduce or crop as it suits my purposes. Also, I don't pixel peep those 36mp images unless I know I took them properly in the first place. It's all horses for courses, but it took me a long time before I appreciated and understood what the D800 was doing for me. We are spending 3 weeks in various US national parks and city's over the coming month. I know which camera I want for the parks and fortunately I already own it :-) Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD, [/QUOTE]

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