Nikon D800

Director Guillermo Arriaga and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, ASC, collaborated to shoot a “beautiful horror movie” entirely with Nikon D800 DSLR cameras. Arriaga, screenwriter of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, wrote and directed “Broken Night,” a tense and unsettling short film. On an empty stretch of desert road after a car crash, a mother and her young daughter find that the accident is the least of their troubles.

Filmmaker Matt Hopkins' documentary video essay series England Your England documents the lives of ordinary folks to explore British identity. Hopkins shot most of it with a Nikon D800, telling DSLR News Shooter, "I prefer to work alone with the subjects shooting on DSLR, keeping it low-key and grabbing the moments wherever possible."

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Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski just earned his sixth Oscar nomination this morning for his work on Lincoln. Now see what a DP of his caliber can do shooting on a $3000 DSLR. Short film "Broken Night" was shot on the Nikon D800 and written and directed by Guillermo Arriaga. Watch it here.

Evan Luzi of The Black and the Blue is now offering his popular camera pocket guides for five new cameras: the Panasonic GH2, GoPro Hero 3, Nikon D600, Nikon D800 and Ikonoskop A-Cam dII. Luzi has also updated all 20 of his other guides.

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After introducing the award-winning D800 to critical acclaim earlier this year, Nikon Inc. proudly announces that the multimedia HDSLR with groundbreaking cinema features has started  to make a name for itself on Hollywood’s A-list. In addition to landing leading roles in upcoming major motion pictures, the Nikon D800 and NIKKOR optics have also been tapped by Showtime to help capture their hit television series Dexter.

Setting a new standard for the use of HDSLRs in professional video production, FX's Wilfred is currently the only television series on any major network to shoot exclusively on HDSLRs.

Nikon boldly jumped into the HD DSLR market in 2008 with the D90, which was able to record 720p video. Four years later and Nikon’s D800 leads the pack with more megapixels than any other camera in its class and the option to shoot 1080p video at an affordable price point (MSRP $2,999.95).

As a leading manufacturer of professional camera accessories, Chrosziel develops solutions for the latest product innovations. In keeping with this tradition, Chrosziel presents two accessory kits for the brand-new Nikon D800, which already has found widespread acclaim even before market release.

At this year's SXSW festival, the Bui Brothers combined a DSLR workshop and a music video shoot into one event that also showed off the new Nikon D800.

Philip Bloom has finally posted his shootout with the Nikon D800, Nikon D4 and Canon 5D Mark III. Watch below as he demonstrates resolution, low-light comparisons, each camera's features and more. Read more here on his blog.

To show off the HD capabilities of its new D800 DSLR camera, Nikon produced the short film “Joy Ride,” which was directed by the high-end still shooter who goes by the moniker of Sandro and shot by cinematographer Anthony Arendt.

Check out this three-way low-light, high ISO test between the Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 5D Mark III and Nikon D800.

Dan Chung of DSLR News Shooter does a real-world test of the video capabilities of the Nikon D800 and Canon 5D Mark III, using the same lenses, framing, ISO, shutter speed and aperture on each camera.

Gizmodo pits the Nikon D800 against the Canon 5D Mark III in terms of shooting video, declaring winners in battles like low light shooting, sharpness, moiré, and rolling shutter. Ultimately, they say, "Clearly both have their strengths and weaknesses.

Nikon is running a free HDSLR workshop at SXSW next week with The Bui Brothers focusing on how to plot and shoot a music video. Workshop attendees will watch and interact as The Bui Brothers shoot a video for rock band The Statesboro Revue using the Nikon D4 and Nikon D800.