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<p>I've been having the same dilema as to the D600 vs. the D800 and I also own the D7000. I've decided on the D800 for these reasons:</p>

<p >1. Sync terminal vs having to buy a hot shoe adapter on the D600 - not a deal breaker since I own pocket wizards, but could come in handy if I didn't have the wizards with me or I want to mount my flash on a bracket. Of course, either camera will with work with Nikon's Creative Lighting System.</p>

<p >2. 10 pin remote terminal vs. MC-DC2 port under the side flap door on the D600 - this is an issue as I prefer to use an L-bracket when shooting on tripod and having to plug in the remote under side door has not worked well for me on the D7000.</p>

<p >3. 2 - 9 frames bracketing vs. only 2 - 3 on D600 - I have only 3 frames now on the D7000 and have wished for more when shooting HDR landscapes.</p>

<p >4. 51 focus points vs 39 on D600 - and spaced over a larger area - I fear the D600 is the same AF system as on my D7000 but more compressed due to it being on a full frame.</p>

<p >5. More durable and weather proof body - I hate shooting in the rain, but here in the northwest, it's inevitable.</p>

<p >6. Dedicated AF-On button. On the D7000 I had to go into the menu to change the function of the AF/AE-L button to to work as an AF-On button. Then I had to go back in to change it back when I didn't want it. A big pain, especially when I forgot it was on and couldn't figure out why the shutter release button wasn't working to focus. duh!</p>

<p >7. And now after reading this thread, I'll add face recognition. I think that will be very handy for portrait work.</p>

<p >I shoot mostly landscape and wildlife, but do some portrait work as well. My 2 main concerns with the D800 are that it only shoots 4 frames per second and then those giant file sizes. But I think I can work with those issues. I have a 1T drive and 12gb of RAM on my iMac and plan to add additional storage as needed. I'll try adding a battery grip to increase the frame/second rate if necessary.</p>

<p >The perfect solution for me would be a camera that had the body of the D800 but 24 megapixals like the D600 and a much faster frame per second rate like the D4 - all for about the same price as the D800. Maybe call it the D800x (Are you listening, Nikon?)</p>

<p >If I could afford a D4, that would be my choice!</p>

<p>Cliff: I have the same 80-400mm Nikon lens and I also could not find the serial number, even after reading this thread. Then I looked again, and sure enough, it's there - barely readable opposite side of the apperture ring.</p>

<p>We are using the 5000 ED on a netbook running XP. We scanned about 750 slides with no issues. Now I cannot get another one to scan. If ICE is on I get an error that says "There was an error in performing a post processing". But the other problem is I also cannot get a scan with ICE turned off either. I'm wondering if it could be a problem with dirty optics/mirror. This was a used machine, so I don't know how many slides it has actually scanned.<br>

The only thing that changed as far as we know is that Windows downloaded some updates, but I sure wouldn't think that would change anything with the scanner.<br>

What about the optics/windows - could it maybe need a cleaning. I know our slides were certainly not the cleanest and same thing for the previous owner.</p>

<p>We just bought a CoolScan 5000 knowing we couldn't use it on our Intel Mac, but thought we'd run it on our Windows 7 laptop. But that didn't work either. So we tried it on our little Acer Netbook running XP and the Atom processor. Wonder of wonder - it works flawlessly. And what a great way to keep it working in the background while we still have use of our regular computers. We're saving to a remote drive that I can easily move over to my Mac for importing into iPhoto.</p>

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