I agree that the color is really good out of the D700. The only color it seems to be a bit off with is blue. I always have to bring up the blue channel to get accurate scenes.
I'm SOOO glad I came across this thread! I bought a barely used D700 about 3 months ago, but due to it's weight, I actually have it listed for sale here.
I've been so conflicted about it, since I LOVE the photos I get from it! I'm a new hobbyiest photographer. Originally from the film/stone age (about 140 years ago) and this camera takes photos like I remember them! ; )
I am definitely leaning towards keeping it now. I had it out again today and got some stunning floral shots...the color and the sharpness. Wow!
However, my hand and my forearm were so sore when I finished shooting. I carry it on a sling strap and am just not a monopod/tripod person...I do a lot of bending down to get close and shoot from different angles.
Can anyone recommend a solution to my problem?
Here's a couple from today and my favorite recent beach shot
calmingfocus wrote:
However, my hand and my forearm were so sore when I finished shooting. I carry it on a sling strap and am just not a monopod/tripod person...I do a lot of bending down to get close and shoot from different angles.
Can anyone recommend a solution to my problem?
You have taken some nice pictures there. However, if I were to be completely honest there are many other cameras, some much lighter than the D700 that would take the same kind of pictures in your hands. Question is how would you feel using them? From my experience, sometimes that is all that matters and it is a reason why I have possibly shot far more pictures with a D70s than with any of my other cameras.
It looks like the D700 though yielding great images in your hands is not as enjoyable to use. It could be that you have been out of the game for a long time and your arm muscles aren't used to handling 1 kg for a few hours anymore. In that case you could give them time to get used to the weight, it really isn't that bad. Alternatively, you could just be patient and find a used D600/D610, they are both full frame and lighter than the D700.
calmingfocus wrote:
I'm SOOO glad I came across this thread! I bought a barely used D700 about 3 months ago, but due to it's weight, I actually have it listed for sale here.
I've been so conflicted about it, since I LOVE the photos I get from it! I'm a new hobbyiest photographer. Originally from the film/stone age (about 140 years ago) and this camera takes photos like I remember them! ; )
I am definitely leaning towards keeping it now. I had it out again today and got some stunning floral shots...the color and the sharpness. Wow!
However, my hand and my forearm were so sore when I finished shooting. I carry it on a sling strap and am just not a monopod/tripod person...I do a lot of bending down to get close and shoot from different angles.
Can anyone recommend a solution to my problem?
Here's a couple from today and my favorite recent beach shot...Show more →
Really beautiful photos. Maybe you would be better suited with 2-3 primes instead of the 24-70. That lens weighs nearly 2 lbs by itself.
calmingfocus wrote:
I'm SOOO glad I came across this thread! I bought a barely used D700 about 3 months ago, but due to it's weight, I actually have it listed for sale here.
I've been so conflicted about it, since I LOVE the photos I get from it! I'm a new hobbyiest photographer. Originally from the film/stone age (about 140 years ago) and this camera takes photos like I remember them! ; )
I am definitely leaning towards keeping it now. I had it out again today and got some stunning floral shots...the color and the sharpness. Wow!
However, my hand and my forearm were so sore when I finished shooting. I carry it on a sling strap and am just not a monopod/tripod person...I do a lot of bending down to get close and shoot from different angles.
Can anyone recommend a solution to my problem?
Here's a couple from today and my favorite recent beach shot...Show more →
As a hobbyist, without customers demand for more pixels, I really recommend holding on to that treasure!
I also started taking pictures in a different millenium, some 140 years ago. The medium was film, and has been to this day and age. Calling a D700 obsolete, I wonder what the correct term for my daily ride would be. A 1965 Nikon F.
So coming from about the same place in time, moving along the same path of evolution, I can only say that, in my opinion, and having access to more modern cameras as well (D800, D500 and soon a Fuji), my D3 does not lack in anything, when used for my own personal photography. It is the closest thing in rendition to the results I got from film, and it was the first camera that gave me the feling that digital finally caught up with film quality. Even film digitized using the D3 as "scanner" looks like film!
The only reason I am driven to more modern cameras is that paying customers nowadays expect 24 Mp at the least from a professional camera. To me, that mainly means that I have to do a lot of work in post processing to get to where my D3 files looked SooC. Go figure
