Bill_Green
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I think this is worth repeating. I'm in the position of looking for my next camera/system. I got to spend a little time in a studio with a D800 and a couple MF cameras last week. I was amazed at the resolution of the D800, but I never really got the colors to look quite right. I would say that the difference between a D800 and 40 mp, 1.3 crop digital back is primarily in color fidelity, sync speed, etc. Going to a full frame sensor has a different look and feel and a D800 can not touch an IQ180 in any way, but that is a pretty silly comparison. Where I would be curious is to see how it stacks up against a Aptus 7 or P45+.One big difference in all of this is raw processing. If you really want the best out of your Nikon it requires more work than processing MF files. Its really that simple, you really have to be very good at it to get to the MF level in processing.
I'm on an interior architecture shoot this week shooting with a Canon and there is one shot we got last night that needed a 25 min exposure, and I don't think there are any MFD backs aside from a P45 that could do that. I was looking at an Aptus 8 and these two recent shoots have me reconsidering.