Nikon D800, 36 Megapixels and Blur

[Kayaker72]

I am just getting around to reading the manual....this line stood out to me:

"With the D800/D800E, you will notice that photos seem to have
less depth of fi eld than pictures shot with other cameras under
the same conditions, and that focus consequently requires more
attention."


This makes sense to me if they crop the image, but I am not sure I follow for an uncropped image. Sorry if this was already covered.

[HDNitehawk]

@Brant; it is almost as if Nikon wrote this guide for people who were upgrading from a crop camera to Full Frame. If you were coming from a crop body you might notice these things. The camera the D800 replaces, the D700, is a full frame camera so in that way it doesn’t make sense. So using a D800 somehow the DOF is going to be narrower than other similar FF bodies?

Of course it says “seem” to have less DOF. If they are trying to say that the high pixel count is going to exaggerate blur then I could see this statement would work. But I just don’t see how this should be, you would think that blur wouldn’t be worse than you would already have out of a D700. It should be at least the same.