Yep, I am. I'm desperate for affordable, full frame DSLRs with sensor cleaning technology and live view. I'm cheesed off reading about top of the line pro cameras I can't justify buying.
Canon 3d or Nikon D700, I don't care which. I'm stuck in the crop sensor dark ages, I want to move into the bright sunshine of affordable, modern full frame.
Why don't you buy a used 5D? They can be found for a fairly reasonable price on the B&S forum. I don't find sensor cleaning or live view that important to my photography.
Alright already. . .
Here's my .02. As a recent convert back to Nikon - I just love my D3 - to have a FX sensor in a smaller body would be awesome.
This would be a great walk around go everywhere body, along with a 28 f/1.4, not to mention an awesome backup body. As far as a built in flash goes, the 5D didn't have one, so that's not a big deal to me.
Now, like many posters before have stated, bring on the primes. . . 28, 35 f/1.4's would be nice.
I've done my part to add to this rumor. We'll just wait-n-see with July 1st just around the corner.
i'm honestly taking the side of the people thinking July 1st will be the 5D MkII... since it's been rumored and speculated for far longer than the D700....if it IS the D700 on July 1st, canon has really made a big fumble....
I can actually see my self buying a second hand 5D at some point, simply cause canon offers some lenses I would really like to try out, ie. 85 1.2 - 50 1.2 - 35 1.4
I've become totally hooked by Live View. Most of my photography is of static objects, and the incredible focus accuracy of Live View at 10x totally outclasses autofocus IMHO. 5D doesn't have Live View.
I also hate cleaning lenses/sensors. I've had a 40D since last autumn, and really like the anti-dust feature, I haven't had any dust on the sensor at all. 5D doesn't have this, and that really puts me off, particularly when so many user reviews refer to a dust issue.
5D is great, but to me it isn't really up to date.
Glad someone got that and was willing to publicly admit it!
I hear that the D700 will have a .666X crop factor, so it's bigger than a 'full frame' 35mm... and it has a really cool built in vignetting feature.
In all seriousness, a D300 with the D3 sensor instead of the crop sensor sounds like a nice little camera. It's gonna be slower than a D3, won't have the built in vertical grip, and maybe some other bells and whistles because there's only one expeed chip. Still, priced right this would be a tempting camera for landscape and portrait shooters.
Now, if Nikon comes out with a camera that has ~ 26mp camera with a HSC of 12mp and the ISO performance between the D300 and D3, well, that may ruffle some feathers. One camera to rule them all How much would THAT camera cost, another $2k over a D3?
j/k, I'm usually one of the doubters myself with stuff like this, but there were enough original things about the leak that it had to be genuine, imho. I'm just glad it's true. Now like everyone else I'm anxious as to when it will be available to be in my hands.
D700 makes sense if they're going to following the convention that lower numbered triple-digit cameras are DX, leaving room for the D400, D500 and D600 and higher numbered are for FX, leaving room for the D700, D800, D900 and even D1000, D1100, etc.
I usually don't believe the rumors, but this one seems real to me. If it's not, and Nikon purposely let this leak to hide something else, then they win the disinformation award of the year.
It may have been unriivaled but it was a slow seller in most markets. Or more correctly, it failed to achieve the numbers and have the impact that Canon were predicting. I heard this every month, sales figures worldwide on the slow side.
Canon had a big push into the 'all-our-cameras-will-be-full-frame-in-the-future' marketing campaign. This was their version of the 'affordable' one.
However, in Oz, the camera was released at $5,500 (when the AUS$ was something like 60c $US). Hardly affordable. Canon were expecting many more enthusiasts from the 20D and 30D's to migrate to the 5D than actually did.
The potential small bodied FX camera (SBFX) comes now into a far more mature market. With the hype and hysteria around the D3, Nikon can hear the cry's for the SBFX. If they can use a chip that's already in production and a body that is already in production, then they will make a camera with very little development costs.
