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With the Pentax K-5, which has very close to the same dynamic range of the Nikon D800 (0.3 ev difference according to DxOMark), I find it's very good to expose so the bright areas do not clip/burn out, then restore the dark areas in post production. Better than the K10D and the K-x was before the K-5. The amount of image data you can restore from the dark areas without having them ruined by noise is very impressive.