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The Nikon D800 is a professional grade full-frame digital single-lens reflex camera produced by Nikon. It was officially announced on February 7, 2012 and went on sale in late March 2012 for the suggested retail price of $2999.95 in the U.S., á2399 in the UK, and €2892 in the Eurozone.

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Buy Nikon D800 Online. However, Nikon honored the original price for all pre-orders placed before March 24, and added that no price changes would be made in other markets.

Buy Nikon D800. The DSLR line from the two biggies in the camera world, Nikon and Canon, has seen important updates recently. While Nikon is hedging its bets on the 36-megapixel D800, Canon responded by releasing the flagship EOS 5D Mark III.

Design and controls

The D800 isn’t as massive as the D4. One benefit of using the D800 is that is only slightly larger in size than a regular DSLR. The controls are also fewer and using it isn’t very complicated. Not all the aspects of the camera have been picked up from the D700; some components come from the D4.

For example, the mode selection is done via the left dial, which is almost identical to the D4. There is a control button and a small dial that can be turned to choose from among the basic shooting modes such as timer, single shot, and burst mode. Four primary controls for the ISO, bracketing, quality settings and white balance can also be found on this dial, at the top as buttons. This means that there is hardly any need to browse through menus to select controls; it can be done in seconds. The eyepiece on the camera appears massive. A small slider dial lets you put on a protective cover over the eyepiece.

One unfortunate exception to this is the focussing in live view mode, which employs the usual contrast-detection method and is quite slow, especially in low light, although to be fair I have seen a lot worse, and it does suffer particularly in comparison to the viewfinder focussing.

Another chunk of D4 is found in the 3D Colour Matrix III metering system, which is a fairly bonkers bit of kit. It features a 91,000-pixel RGB metering sensor, a massive boost from the 1,000-pixel sensor in the D700. It is apparently much better at scene recognition and has full-time face detection. The test of this is in the results, and I didn't find a lighting situation in which it failed to produce perfect.

The Blue Man Group performance is just one of many tests we are putting the camera through this week to find out how the D800 performs. So far we’ve been on a boat, and taken in a special Blue Man Group performance in some of the worst light we’ve ever seen - we don't get to the theatre much.

We’ve learnt a lot so far, not all of it specific to the D800 either. We’ve learnt that on-the-fly lens changing is still a real pain and that, at least for video, you need a way to support your SLR when you’re recording, otherwise it starts to look like you're drunk.

But we’re also learnt that this new generation of SLRs can handle lower light in stills and in more adverse conditions than ever before. We really think that the lack of noticeable grain in this image is remarkable. Given that this is a very densely packed sensor with 36.6-megapixels of image to produce, it’s actually staggering how well it copes in low light. This is something that high-resolution sensors often handle very badly indeed, so it's important the D800 does a better job of it.

Nikon’s D800 is the best camera in the world, according to camera and lens rating supremo DxOMark. Or rather, it has the best sensor DxOMark has ever analyzed. With a score of 95, it even beats out its big brother, the Nikon D4. It even has an “unmatched quality-to-price ratio,” being the cheapest of the top eight cameras on DxOMark’s charts.

The D800’s sensor has 36.3 megapixels, and it seems every one of them is good. The camera was tested shooting portraits, sports and landscapes, and even scores close to the best medium-format cameras. DxOMark even said that the sensor has “no weak points.”

The score is a composite that reflects three attributes: dynamic range, which is the breadth of the span between an image's full black and complete white; color depth, which gauges the vividness and accurate color; and low-light performance, which is the ability of the sensor to capture images in dim light without too many of the photo-degrading speckles called image noise.

For a look at the D800's impressive real-world photo performance, check CNET's D800 review and D800 sample image gallery. For the camera itself, be patient: Nikon says the D800 is in short supply, and one customer I know who was told he'd get his this week just learned that it's now due in April.

The DxOMark score is based on how good an image looks when converted to an 8-megapixel size. A camera with more megapixels can use that resolution to overpower noise if a photo is viewed at a given size.

D800 has a built-in two frame HDR option within one shutter release. The two exposures can be at two different levels at upto 3EV apart. The in-camera HDR tone mapping provides nicely blended saturated results. This is one of the coolest features of D800.

Nikon claims that the noise performance equals that of the 12.1 megapixel full-frame D700 despite the sensor including exactly 3x as many pixels. This probably comes from the camera sensor being several years newer in comparison, as originally announced with the Nikon D700 in 2008.

The D800 is the highest resolution DSLR out in the market with a superb price point of around US$ 3,000, making every photo astounding and every video dazzling. This is quite impressive when one considers that the previous highest resolution full frame camera from Nikon was the 25 MP Nikon D3x with an MRP of around US$ 7,500.