A question for D800 owners

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I appreciate the answer may already be somewhere in this forum, but I've had a quick shoofty and nothing jumped out at me so....

Does anyone actually produce prints (30" x 20") from their D800 and is the difference noticeably better than a lower resolution F/F camera?
 
I have an alloy-box print that measures 31.5" x 22" - it was an already cropped D800 image and it turned out great. It gets admired every time someone comes into the living room. Now, that may be as much to do with the shiny metallic finish, but I'm proud of it :)
 
I recently had a 30 x 20 acrylic done by DSCL, (has to go back due to a failure in the glue or something - proving long-winded!), from a D800 image and I have compared it with a 36 x 24 sealed canvas from a D3S image.
Now I suppose it isn't really fair to compare an acrylic with a canvas and they are both good, but the D800 on acrylic is much sharper and clearer than the D3S canvas.
The D800 would be my choice now if I was planning a large print like these again.
 
I did wonder the chances of someone having two identical prints from different cameras to see the difference, were a bit unlikely :-)

My D3s does produce great large prints, but you often don't know what you're missing until you've seen it!
 
All I know is, I wouldn't have printed as large from files out of the D90 - especially pre-cropped images. I think 16 x 12" was the largest I printed from that.

From the D800 I have also printed fairly large, poster size prints of gigs I shot st higher ISO. But, I think with any camera, the print is going to look cleaner than the file on screen in that situation. The ink tends to 'blend' out the noise.
 
I do my own printing at home and only up to A3+ so haven't got any 30x20s but I have got some A3+ prints from substantial crops from the D800 that would be getting pixelated on D700 prints.
 
We printed a set of images lat 3.5m x 2m. They were pin sharp and we were very happy with the results. Cannot say if a smaller sensor would have been ok but I am sure the D800 helped.
 
Whilst I haven't got two identical prints I have printed at A2 from a D800 and a Pentax K20d.
The K20d shot is a shot in the mist and I do not have a direct comparison but I am quite happy with the result.
Having said that, the A2 prints from the D800 are quite stunning
 
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