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Yohan Pamudji wrote:
Richie S wrote:
I guess they've filled the exact same niche as the 5D haven't they.
Great sensor ...... and ....... errrrr..... video.
Yep. No answer to the D700. Too bad.
yeah i guess canon is just never gonna do it.
not sure they get it since now some comments one guy told me about their thoughts about this, which i didnt believe then, are true.
i might still have given it a try but the release date is not until....
the entire darn fall sports season is totally over. 
oh well i surely wont be tempted to guinea pig it now.
simply arrives way too late to be of any use for me
which is in some ways a worse thing than 4 fps, since you can live with that, but not being out means 0 fps and that doesn't exactly work  .
even a month earlier release woulda caught enough of the sports season to tempt me (and perhaps all the others doing action). Oh well. gotta reset my sites on just living with my 40D for now or temporarily giving the 50D a try. Woulda loved to see the gapless FF pull off ISO3200 sports this fall though on those terribly lit fields.
i've always wondered the timing of these photokidna releases since they always arrive too late to catch the fall leaf peeping shooting and the entire fall sports season and the entire summer travel season. always seemed like a very weird time to release cameras.
maybe i'll give it a look at the start of february, unless it ends up arriving early. i think the 40D did end up coming out almost a month earlier than the first press release hinted at.
the sensor should be amazing, the movie mode is really cool.
the other specs are either very poor or perhaps poor and nothing like the text was promising on the japanese site or the big build up and shows nothing about them changing strategy with bodies to match nikon.
not that the D700 doesnt have one big issue itself and that is that at 12MP and FF you do lose lots of reach which can be rough for sports since a 400 2.8 costs waayyyyy more than a 300 2.8. so for the amateur but very serious action photographer none of the options are quite there, oh well.
(9+6 AF is action potentially greaty for action since all you need is for teh assist to be packed near the middle, the question is is it a sad digic driven AF of the xxD and 5D or did they give it an AF chip so it can use the points effectively? it could be anywhere from very disappointing to truly excellent, depending)
(4fps is too slow to really grab multiple caps from a singel action set, 5 is absolute minimum and 6.5 really).
it should be a really fabulous non-action cam though.
and aside from rather weak in the buffer and fps, if the AF has been much tuned up, could be a liveable 'poor'-man's action cam of sorts.
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I suspect and hope that the image quality and noise/iso-quality will be great! I hope that improved weather sealing means that I can take it with me a few places i did not dare bring my 30d :P 
