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Every now and then a camera comes along that says – I'm something really special. Not just new, but newly conceived – a game changer of you will. I believe that theNikon D800 and D800e are just such cameras. The specsof the D800 models are well known by now, so I'm not going to repeat them here. As this is published in mid-March, 2012 neither model has yet shipped. The D800 is due at dealers within days, while the D800e is due in mid-April, about a month later.
For many photographers contemplating the purchase of a D800 series camera the question will be – should I get the D800 or the D800e?  Note that the  only  difference between the D800 and the D800e is that the "e" model does not have a low pass anti-aliasing filter.
What is an AA Filter?
It's worth taking a moment, for those who might be a bit fuzzy on the subject (joke) to explain that almost all digital cameras have what are known as an anti-aliasing (AA) filters, also call...

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