After 4 and half months wait, My D800E finally got here!!!

First impression, it's a pretty nice little camera, since I have been using those high resolution and professional grade full frame cameras for a while, so no earth shaking experience from this D800E so far, in fact, the built quality of this new toy feels much cheaper than most of the camera I have been using such as the D3, 1Ds MK III, 1Ds MK II, , 1D MK II.... the hand grip on this camera SUCKS big time comparing to all those camera I have, even slightly worse than my 5D MK II which I don't really like it that much, the Live View implementation on this camera is simply retarded when compared to the Canon, even the crappy T2i I had before worked much better especially when shooting at night, Live-View 10X zoom in focus with this new Nikon is absolutely painful to work with if you have been spoiled by the Canon LV operation, so good luck to those night photographer shooting manual focus Zeiss primes, better set up your stuffs and tape your lens before the sun goes down if you don't want high resolution OOF pictures, LOL......

But then there is the superior AF that makes my 5D2 feels like a point and shoot, I mean a AF system actually works no matter which 1 of the 51 AF point you selected, unlike my "single working center point AF" 5D2. And now the 36MP of details which provides so much potentials for cropping and wall size print job, oh, and of course I have some pain to work with some as big as 70MB files from this new camera too, LOL; And now the most important part for a landscape shooter such as myself -- the Dynamic Range, first time I feel like leaving my GNDs at home when I head up the mountains, just kidding, still need them, it's not a MF film camera DR yet. also gone is the ugly low ISO shadow noise and banding found on every recent generation Canon DSLR including the 5D2, 1D MK4 and 7D....shadow recovery capabilities on this new camera is unbelieveable, I can now just expose after the highlight and lift up the shadow in PP, no need to worry about those "ugly Canon shadow", a really HUGE relieve !!! , also gone is the blue sky artifacts i found from my D300 and D3, one the main reason I got rid of the D300 at te first place. Also the amount of customization is just unbelievable, I configured every important button and control wheels the way it works best for me, and after only a week I can change those important setting in dark without even looking at the camera and LCD screen, and now if they allow me to re-assign the stupid ISO button from the top left mode dial to the Exposure Compensation button or a button somewhere around there would make that a even better camera in terms of control layout as I shoot manual 100% of the time so that Exp. +/- button is a total waste sitting in that prime location.

So far it seems like a pretty cool landscape hiking camera and that's exactly what I am buying it for, of course still by far not a perfect camera, but its pros out-weighted its cons by a huge margin, definitely a keeper.