Yes Terry - quite frankly the D800 DR is amazing. This shot had no ND filtration as it would have been problematic because of the already large dark object on the right. There was a slight bit of clipping in the sun but that's OK for me. Togther with the great new controls in LR4, it makes bringing back the shadow areas a breeze and the D800 at 100 ISO is in no way a noisy camera in these areas.
I'm getting to grips with the cameras little ways and (I suppose like most cameras that use a JPEG for the histogram) find that the clipping shown in the rear LCD is VERY conservative.
I hope this helps
Alun