Yes I need to find a way to rent/lease a D700. From what I read the D3x may be a bit overpriced. I don't want huge pixel count. It certainly comes in handy but overall functionality is what rules. The 1Ds3 is a superb landscape axe. For minimum depth of field shots of models and portraiture it is totally hit and miss. Mostly miss. I'd love to see what a good Nikon can do autofocusing on a girls eyes without front/backfocus to who-knows-where.
After all this I wanted Canon to send me a loaner so I could then send in my camera. They refused. I have to send it in again and be without for days. Again.
They owe me at this point. If the idiots had half a wit they would send me a totally new body in the retail package just to attempt to win me back. A restaurant with great food and poor service goes out of business. Here we have a product with a chronic defect and poor service..
Just go out and rent a Nikon D700 and a decent lens, say an 85 f1.4, and try it out. Answer your own question in about 1 day. Photography should be fun, not the stress filled BS you seem to be experiencing with your present set up. I'm not a Canon shooter any longer, but I hear the Mk2 version does not have these focus problems, so thats another alterinative.
xrayvision wrote:
Do Nikon D3x owners have as many autofocus difficulties when shooting at wide open apertures?
The Canon camp has been far more interested in the technical details, and has been far more anal about microscopically testing equipement than has the Nikon camp, giving the illusion that Nikon equipement has no flaws.
That stance is changing, as a quick perusal of the DPR Nikon forums will quickly show.
IOW, you won't be any happier with the Nikon stuff, once the honeymoon is over...
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