Nikon D800 with Sony’s 36 Megapixel sensor announced

Nikon’s latest monster the D800 and its amazing 36Mpix CENSOR. Offering a body as small as the actual D700, the D800 comes with stunning specs including an ISO Speed expandable to 25,600, 1080/30p or 720/60p AVCHD limited to up to 29’59” of continuos video recording with linear PCM Audio, HDR, Active D-Lighting and a six frames per second burst mode in DX mode.

Its advanced scene recognition system incorporates a 91,000-pixel RGB sensor which can detect human faces even when only using the optical viewfinder. It can also recognise a scene’s colour and brightness more accurately.

The camera has Nikon’s Multi-CAM 3500FX AF system with selectable and configurable 9-point, 21-point and 51-point coverage settings. This has improved the low-light acquisition sensitivity abilities of the autofocus sensor module and algorithms down to -2 EV.

Its start-up time is 0.12 seconds and release time lag on is about 0.042 seconds.

It can film Full HD footage which can be recorded at frame rates of 30p, 25p and 24p. At 720p resolution, it can shoot at a frame rate of 60p, 50p and 25p. Full HD recording is also possible in both FX and DX-based formats.