wildernesswanderer wrote:Fun trying to walk on to a plane with it though and not get sprung for the weight.
Yeah, I used to cram 20 kg of toys into my day pack, did it for years on flights. Got busted at Launceston, they insisted that it had to go in the hold. I shoved as much glass in my pockets as I could, gave up the least critical bits of kit, and carried my laptop as a "handbag".
I took the same pack onto a Dash 8 and it wouldn't fit anywhere inside the aircraft cabin- I ended up putting it behind my claves, and laying my jacket over my lap so the pack wasn't seen.
Just got a D800e last week have shot 2 jobs on it, got another wedding tomorrow. No moiré anywhere to be seen. Will continue to shoot paid work on my D700s, as there is a considerable difference in storage when thinking of a years' worth of RAW files. I really bought the D800e to use for fun- and yes, am glad for the suite of pro glass I own.
The moiré never was a concern- I shot for years on a cherry picked Kodak Pro14n, one of the best cameras I've owned. I wore out 2 shutters! The Kodak gave me moiré about two shots per wedding on a bad run- most of the time there was never any at all.
I have the 14-24mm Nikon lens, and just bought the 16-35mm f4 as a lighter alternative, for hiking, PLUS the fact that I can screw a filter onto the latter, for protection. I have done some harsh testing of the two lenses against each other... am really impressed with the performance of the "lesser status" 16-35mm.
If I can just hide a lens or two into wifey's pack pre-departure... then the d800e would go on every trip. It does become a question of weight, and end use of the images. If the files only ever live on a hard drive, and get looked at on an iPad, then all that resolution is not fully utilised.
But I do enjoy the simplicity of the P7700 compact, awesome files for what it is. For shooting in the magical hours of the day, the P7700 files when exposed correctly, yield excellent dynamic range.
There's a lot to be said for the impact of the image, as a photograph or work of art, long before pixel count comes into it. It's hilarious, when I run classes, all they seem to want to talk about is resolution.
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