Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
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Exactly . It hit a tipping point that I could actually use it for commerce. This replaced my DF kit in many ways. It is good enough to let me sell that kit drop down from the 160 to 140 and use my tech cam. The crop factor actually gives me a little extra movements as long as I can get back far enough to equal the FF of the 160. Sure in some ways it's a compromise and a little less horsepower but I can stitch too. End of day I got a easier working setup and I always liked the 40 mpx sensor so really no lose except large print size. I'm happy with max 30x40 prints and my printer is 24 inches wide so really to do my own gallery or sell prints it would be 24 x whatever anyway. I made this call before the D800 hit the streets and sold my DF kit a week before the D800 was in my hands. I just guessed right. Is it better than MF no but it's close enough for commerce work. And frankly I'm sort of getting out doing commerce work anyway and working more with my wife's business that we bought in January. All I care about is doing workshops as that gives me the most pleasure and shooting for myself. The commerce work is a means to a end. LOLYou are right of course in that going from 24 to 36 is not revolutionary, but I think we still can see on all the MF forums that the 36 megapixel D800E has had a dramatic impact. I think it has broke some sort of psychological limit, we got used to 20-24 megapixels in DSLRs since a few years, but 36 megapixels still has that medium format sound to it.
It is also very close in resolution to the IQ140 and similar products. That little bump in megapixels has made comparison with MF systems much more interesting than before. We may also come to a tipping point where a large part would-be MF users find DSLRs to have high enough resolution. Time will tell, but the D800 could really be a revolutionizing camera... a little bit like when photographers shooting 4x5" film eventually went digital because it reached a tipping point when it became good enough (it was somewhere around P45+ for many it seems, i e similar resolution to the D800), but this time around it is MF digital shooters that may move down to DSLRs.