Nikon D800! 10 things you wanna know before upgrading your D700
7 Feb 2012
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TEN THINGS you really wanna know before upgrading your D700 |
| 1 | The D800 has a 36mpx FX sensor with the Nikon EXPEED 3 engine. | 2 | TWO models available, D800 and D800E (enhanced sharpness model, no low pass filter). |
| 3 | Price: $2999 USD. |
| 4 | Available in March 2012. |
| 5 | Video: Full HD 1080 at 30/24p. Can record H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format video for up to 30 minutes per clip. |
| 6 | ISO 100-6400. |
| 7 | Enhanced 51-point autofocus system. |
| 8 | Dual card slots, CF and SD. Offers users the ability to record backup, overflow, RAW/JPEG separation, and the additional option of shooting stills to one and video to the other. |
| 9 | Estimated 40mb-50mb RAW file size, hence shoots at 4FPS. |
| 10 | High-precision, high-durability shutter – tested to 200,000 shutter cycles. |
| VERDICT |
I own a Nikon D700 and love it. For me personally, the main reason for choosing the D700 over the Canon 5D MKII was it’s low light handling. Before purchasing the D800 I’d need to see what it’s useable ISO range is… and if it’s better than my D700! 36MPX is a massive overkill. I’d be buying this camera for only two reasons, HD video and a better useable ISO range. That’s about it. Otherwise I’ll probably keep my D700! For those of you wanting to step up into the full frame camera world, this is a perfect opportunity to pick up a great deal on a D700.
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For that price I'd expect a higher frame rate for the HD video AND the stills shots. 4FPS? Pffft! Still, I only have the D7000 so I shouldn't talk… having said that, it does shoot at 6FPS. ZING! At a lower resolution. Aww… But 16.2 megapixels is still pretty damn good! ZING! It's all my budget could afford. Aww…
hahha yeah I agree Damien, 4FPS is slowwwwwww, and 36MPX, not really necessary for most people. The D7000 is beautiful little camera and 16mpx is great, my D700 only has 12!
PLUS, you'll be able to get some great deals on the D700 now
Photocritictv This is true. Will have to save my pennies and pick one up after I move to Vancouver in April.
Nice, thoughts are that they will be selling for $1500-$1800, not bad for a professional full frame camera.
Photocritictv $1500?? Wow, that was the price of the D7000 not 6 months ago. Dagnabbit.
Damien Baumgart nice
Agreed on the point with the memory cards, but then again, just like sonys' old MS cards, so far most things Sony develops, there's the chance it may become redundant/obsolete. (minidisc anyone?)
very informative clip though, no bias, even though he is a nikon user.
interesting though on the E version, does that mean IR photography possibilities?
Exactly Stel, I dont understand why just dont stick with CF… why use SD and CF and not two CF, size maybe? Or why cant they use two SD's… dunno. And yeah, the Fro is great!
Photocritictv
yeh I would've rather seen at least 2 CF slots. considering that although size is a slight issue, for a body that size, I didn't think it would much of a problem, there's already one CF slot there, might as well slap a second one right next to it, and considering speed is an issue with up to 40MB per RAW image, it is rather sad to see SD making an appearance on such a high end camera, the D4 has the XQD and CF, Canon opted for twin CF slots on their 1Dx. even without the speed of the other bodies, SD is far slower than CF, and if it used as an overflow, or backup, it simply creates an unnecessary bottleneck.
Fair point. Two CF's sounds the best. I just read that XQD can read and write between125-500mb/s. And storage capabilities beyond 2 TB…. not bad.