Nikon D800 with 36 Megapixel sensor image leaks

Three years after the Nikon D700 was launched, it seems Nikon is finally going to launch a successor. What you see below is supposedly the upcoming Nikon D800, leaked by the folks at Nikon Rumors.

According to the purported specifications, the D800 will have a 36 megapixel sensor. That is 7,360 x 4,912 and 1/3 the resolution of the D700 12.1 megapixel sensor. This comes across as a rather strangmove as I thought we had finally gone past the megapixel craze and were concentrateing more on the low-light performance, something high resolution sensors are not very good at.

Along with the high resolution image capture, the D800 will also be capable of 1080p video recording in 30, 25 and 24-fps and 720p recording in 60, 30, 25 and 24-fps.