If "suckers" like me didn't buy these cameras that we don't need, I believe they wouldn't be able to make enough of them to recover the tooling cost without charging much more money for them.

I sometimes use a tripod. I sometimes don't. I walk around with it most of the time when I want to take a camera. I'll take along a couple of lenses. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for so much hardware and take a compact Canon. I've taken hand held pictures with this camera that show astonishing detail at various apertures, including f11. The problem with small apertures is image degradation due to diffraction, and that varies somewhat depending on the lens used (In my experience. Let's not pull out technical articles on the subject to keep this simple.) The bottom line is that I like the camera and would buy it again. It's rather large and heavy, but not heavier than the Nikon FTn I had slung over my shoulder for many years.

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You fell for the oldest con in the digital world. UHH is full of amateurs who bought an 810 for the same reason as you. Those members will do or say anything to justify their ill informed purchase.

You bought a camera that must be on a tripod and must be used at large apertures (f6.3 or larger) in order to realize its sensors capabilities. For instance, at f11 it is no sharper than a 16mp sensor. Amongst the many Nikon bodies I own is an 810. It is a great studio camera.

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