Thanks for the quick Pro/Con review. I've tried out a D800 and found it to be huge and loud, but extremely fast to focus and with great metering. Your experience fills me in on the D600 that I was wondering about, to some degree. Oddly enough, I haven't been tempted to try out Canon's full-frame since I sold my 1Ds (the "classic" v.1) many years ago and picked up a K10D.
Just the other day a tourist who didn't speak English (or French, so I was SOL) handed me his 5D (mkIII, I think) with a 70-200/4 lens on it to take a photo of himself and his girl (@70mm/4). It was massive, but not as heavy or ungainly as I expected, and not terribly loud. When I showed him my K-5 and FA 43mm, he nodded and smiled but didn't understand that I could take another, almost identical shot of them (focal length and DOF) with that diminutive combo!
Originally posted by rawr I had never heard of a 'noise blimp' until you mentioned the term. Looking at the commercial ones on B&H they run to about $1000
and seem rather ungainly.
If you can do without the LCD, there is always
something like this. (Also something I had never seen before that post!)