SMS wrote:

It's a pretty good marketing move, to emphasize your positives, while
preventing comparisons against the negatives. Most people will be
content with 800 ISO, so the reviews won't ding the omission of higher
ISO speeds nearly as much as they would ding noise at the higher ISO
speeds. Nikon needs to avoid comparisons of noise, against their Canon
competition, as much as possible. We all saw what happened with the D2x
high ISO noise in the reviews, and Nikon is determined to avoid a repeat
of this.

Dude... it's exactly the same, the D2x maxes out at 800 too. Remember
that Nikon doesn't dishonestly list digital-push settings as rated ISO
sensitivities.

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