I have been involved with photography for over 20 years - through various art courses and photographing my own work - large paintings - first on slide with a Minolta SLR and now with a D80 DSLR. So quite experienced in studio photography.
The images I take are not quite good enough for reproduction, the D80 and my 50mm lens don't quite meet the requirements of fine art printing.
I want to be able to make the sharpest and most detailed photographs of quite large paintings. Sometimes as big as 2.5m wide. I have done my home work and worked out a Nikon 85mm 1.8G - will give me the best results. (little distortion and good sharpness across the picture plane and I have enough space to get back and shoot this size with this lens etc)
Now I am looking for a body to match the lens. I am in the waiting list for a D800E (pre-ordered at Jessops) - but the rumours of the D600 - do make me wonder if that would actually be sufficient for me?
I want professional and accurate results of my paintings - so I have a really good record of them - for every need in the future, such as a monograph type book etc. e.g. top quality printed book.
Can anyone help?
What would I be giving up by choosing the D600 except 12mp less (24mp, will be more than twice what I have now, so probably plenty).
The D800E is quite expensive - but perhaps it is almost future proof for what i want to do?
