Interestingly the D800 is competing in a different area to that which the D700 targetted at its release. While the D700 shone in low light situations and was the first affordable full frame dSLR the D800 has added broadcast quality video to the equation while blowing the megapixel count of existing Nikon dSLRs out of the water.
The enhanced MP count has been a cause for concern for some people who have been paying attention to the rumour mill. The overall feeling is that the increase in MP will come at the cost of image quality through increased noise and the ability of the camera's sensor to out resolve lenses that are placed in front of it. There is also concern over the size of the RAW files that such a sensor would be likely to generate.
While we will need to await testing to determine whether or not these issues have materialised it is my belief that the concerns around noise have been blown out of proportion. While the D800 will have a higher pixel density leading to more opportunities for noise to break through if the same image were captured on the D800 and a D700 and both images were produced at 12MP it is likely that the D800 would produce the better file. Always remember that Noise Nazis are Pixel Peepers. Their concerns occur at the smallest visible level of the file. What we should care about with noise is the smallest visible level of the print.
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