Interesting. But he doesn't say what kind of video the new body offers. I've heard it is only 720 motion jpeg, same inferior video on the D300s. Not much exciting to me.
I just saw this. Can someone tell me please that they have inside info that Nikon is about to also release some new primes? I'm not liking Canon life .... despite their great lenses ... and this just may be too much to resist!
I was hoping for something more. Nikon noise levels are already remarkable. The original D3 coupled with a fast lens is a amazing tool for the photographer. I would have liked to see some more pixels. Maybe a universal camera that would not only fit the sportsman but the journalist as well. All news is good news, many will probably jump at the opportunity to have such a capable low light machine. This is definitely a opportunity for folks wanting to jump into the D3 as they will be filling up and flying off the B/S forum. Cant wait to see the Tech specs from Nikon.
I'm one who is glad that they resisted the megapixel upmanship. I mean they already have a D3x and I've been stopped by my low light needs from going back to Nikon. I have similar iso performance in the 5Dmkii as the D3 but the lens that I need for my bread and butter is the 24-105 f 4.0. It is image stabilized. Nikons is not and I need to often shoot at 6400 at iso 5.6 or 8 in really dark environments. The F 2.8 did not help me and the one stop advantage (at most) over the 5Dmkii did not give me a combo I could use. With this ... I do.
Let me tell ya .... 21 megapixel is mostly a pain!
There really is a genuine divide opening up between Canon and Nikon in terms of priorities. Nikon is favoring high ISO performance (save the D3x, which is a specialized camera, and more of a medium format competitor to some extent) and Canon continues to favor high resolution.
Let me tell ya .... 21 megapixel is mostly a pain!
People don't pay much attention to the computing power required to work with those files until after the fact.
Chefdaniel wrote:
I was hoping for something more. Nikon noise levels are already remarkable. The original D3 coupled with a fast lens is a amazing tool for the photographer. I would have liked to see some more pixels. Maybe a universal camera that would not only fit the sportsman but the journalist as well. All news is good news, many will probably jump at the opportunity to have such a capable low light machine. This is definitely a opportunity for folks wanting to jump into the D3 as they will be filling up and flying off the B/S forum. Cant wait to see the Tech specs from Nikon....Show more →
Hopefully a D700x or D800 etc will be the tool of choice for those needs then.
Give me a $3000 24meg D700 style body and then a 12 meg D3s with 14 fps and ISO12800 and I'll be a happy man. A poor man, but a happy man.
The D3 already tamed the poorly lit college arena's I sometimes have to shoot gymnastics, volleyball etc in at iso6400
If we can have iso12800 I'll even be able to shoot natural light in the high school gyms this winter. 1/500th, f2.8, iso12800, that would just be unreal.
It was only a few years ago when iso1600 was deemed just too noisey even for newsprint lol
millsart wrote:
The D3 already tamed the poorly lit college arena's I sometimes have to shoot gymnastics, volleyball etc in at iso6400
If we can have iso12800 I'll even be able to shoot natural light in the high school gyms this winter. 1/500th, f2.8, iso12800, that would just be unreal.
It was only a few years ago when iso1600 was deemed just too noisey even for newsprint lol
Uneal is right. With a camera this capible combined with the new Nikor super tele lens line-up we might just see the majority of pro sports journalists wearing black and gold.
millsart wrote:
The D3 already tamed the poorly lit college arena's I sometimes have to shoot gymnastics, volleyball etc in at iso6400
If we can have iso12800 I'll even be able to shoot natural light in the high school gyms this winter. 1/500th, f2.8, iso12800, that would just be unreal.
It was only a few years ago when iso1600 was deemed just too noisey even for newsprint lol
I was shooting at 6400 during a high school football game recently and not thinking twice about it.
Pavel wrote:
...bread and butter is the 24-105 f 4.0. ... ...Let me tell ya .... 21 megapixel is mostly a pain!
Each to their own. I found the 14-bit 21MP with the resolution nearly of the D3x and nearly the high-iso performance in a small body inspiring and the results a joy to post-process.
After owning both the 24-105L and 24-70L, I'd recommend giving the 24-105 a miss, even though my 24-105 was cherry-picked and tack sharp. Seemed too much WA distortion and too slow to make it fun to use.
