Hi Dave,
Thanks for your encouragement - it is greatly appreciated. The D800 is 32 megapixels as opposed to the D700 and D200's 12.1, and as a full frame sensor among other things, at that resolution it provides far better potential for cropping while retaining good resolution. The on-camera processing at sensor level is much less in the D800 than in the Nikon semi-professional range, allowing more control to the photographer in Photoshop Camera Raw.
I have just read your post about the wickedness of the St George's Hotel - terrible that!. I hope they are prepared to pay for your wonderful image. That is the trouble with the internet though - it is a honey pot for copyright theft and although there are the beginnings of a fight back from professional musicians, film makers and artists, it is still very much like the 'wild west' online at the moment. I think it will change in time.
PS: I edited this post because I originally wrote W W W instead of 'internet' and it appeared as a devil icon instead - although strangely appropriate in this context I thought....
The D700 is full frame, makes a big difference! A new set of FX lenses was nearly £2000 but well worth it, I have the 50mm, 15-30mm, and my favourite, the 28-300mm. The extra megapixels on the D800 are sort of nice, but larger and larger file sizes are playing havoc with my file storage. I'm already using 2TB drives as I have well over 100,000 images dating back about 8 years.
To be fair to the St. George's, I think it was a genuine mistake on their part.
