Two things..

How many other threads do we have on this very subject?

for instance: How can the OP mark his own post as helpful?

Watch all those going for Nikon and Canon coming back to the fold after realising their 6D/5D3/D610/D800 aren't quite as well sealed as the Pentax FF isn't the be all and end all...

Good spec, permit me if I may, but these Ultras are pushing out transfer speeds the Extreme cards were not so long ago.....I've got 15Mb/s Ultras and 30 Mb/s Extremes.... so these represent good value

Think Chris should send pictures of Nikki

I wasn't overawed by mine either. One SDM failure, a trip to JPS and it's now awesome.

Now let down by operator incompetence

Including 'puk4' Chris?

Actually the raw software will tell you what the actual focal length used was..and it's equivalent in 35mm

Sigmas, I have found, tend not to report very well, even if connected directly with the body...regardless of make of camera body..

Sounds like a refurbed unit then, one of the ones Nikon took back and had the shutter unit replaced. Or a fire sale because there is the D610.

Good luck with your Nikon gear, and speaking as a D3 user, the grass ain't always greener

It had to be a good deal on the D600...seen any oil yet?

I used to do weddings 10-15 years ago, gladly no more....Last one was for a 'friend' for free. A pal also took shots, I with film, he with digital. I've not heard from her since, don't know whether she was happy or not with the pictures, always had good feedback from previous clients... but another friend asked me to help him with a wedding in Ripon, then he asked someone else - I wasn't too bothered but it was fun looking at the images afterwards....

the back up guy turned up not knowing how to use his camera (failed KYFG or RTFM) - all his shots were soft. oh dear...

how did the main photographer do? well he had an ETRSi which has a switch on the body or the RFH, flick it and the film does not advance when you wind it on, all it does is cock the shutter.. Derrick thinks its odd that he feels he's taken more than 15 shots on his film, and yes the film hadn't advances...

Schadenfreude

How do wedding photographers cope with iPad users these days?