[vieri]

Hello Calvin,

I own both M8 & D3 (and a D300 too). While is true that due to the lack of mirror slap you can handhold the M8 to slower shutter speed than a D3, and thus gain maybe a stop there, if you shoot anything that moves (people at weddings, concerts, events and so on) and you want them to be sharp vs blurred in your pics that becomes quite in-influent; as well, why limit yourself to f2.8 lenses? You can use f1.4 lenses on the D3 (28 mm, 50 mm, 85 mm AF, 35 mm MF) or f2 lenses (35, 105 DC, 135 DC, 200 mm in AF, 28, 85, 105 & 200 in MF) and get back there; more, you can use VR lenses on the D3 and get some more slow shutter speed advantage. Not to forget that you can use the D3 up to ISO 6400 with very good quality, and 12.800 with some effort (definitely in BW, color is iffy IMHO).

To me, for extreme low light the D3 beats the M8 hands down for color work, and for BW too unless you are into that grainy pushed Tri-X look (which I personally like a lot).