12.1 megapixel full-frame sensor (8.45µm pixel pitch)
Image Sensor Cleaning (vibration) *
ISO 200 - 6400 (with boost up to ISO 25600 and down to ISO 100)
Also supports DX lenses, viewfinder automatically masks (5.1 megapixels with DX lens)
14-bit A/D conversion, 12 channel readout
Same ultra-fast startup and shutter lag as D3
Nikon EXPEED image processor (Capture NX processing and NR algorithms, lower power)
New Kevlar / carbon fibre composite shutter with 150,000 exposure durability *
Multi-CAM3500FX Auto Focus sensor (51-point, 15 cross-type, more vertical coverage)
Auto-focus tracking by color (using information from 1005-pixel AE sensor)
95% coverage, 0.72x magnification viewfinder *
Auto-focus calibration (fine-tuning), fixed body or up to 20 separate lens settings
Scene Recognition System (uses AE sensor, AF sensor)
Picture Control image parameter presets
5 frames per second continuous with auto-focus tracking*
Optional MB-D10 Battery Pack (same as D300), increases burst rate to 8 fps *
UDMA compatible single CF card slot *
3.0" 922,000 pixel LCD monitor
Live View with either phase detect (mirror up/down) or contrast detect Auto Focus
Virtual horizon indicates if camera is level (like an aircraft cockpit display)
HDMI HD video output
'Active D-Lighting' (adjusts metering as well as applying D-Lighting curve)
Detailed 'Control Panel' type display on LCD monitor, changes color in darkness
Magnesium alloy body with connections and buttons sealed against moisture
Improved Info display on main screen *

* Different to D3

"from the site KENROCKWELL"

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If you need to shoot today, get a readily available D3 or D300, since it will be a few weeks until anyone gets their hands on a D700.

The only thing you're getting for $1,200 more than a D300 is much better high-ISO performance and a green light to buy even more expensive ultra-ultra wide lenses. For most people, I wouldn't bother, or I'd step up all the way to the much faster and fully professional D3.

If you're shooting sports and action, the D3 is still your camera. If you're shooting landscapes, the D3X (not yet public) or Canon 5D is better.

Honest: if I need landscape image quality, the Canon 5D beats the D3 and costs and weighs much less. If I want speed for sports, action and news, the D3 has far faster AF and frame rates than any of these. The D700 or D3 aren't the cameras for landscapes; that's the 5D or D3X.

Lens Suggestions

See my Nikon D3 Lens Suggestions.

Personally, for landscapes and weird stuff, the 14-24mm is what I use all day. For photos of family and friends in any light without flash, the 50mm f/1.4 AF-D is unbeaten. For a tele, pros use the 70-200mm VR, and you might prefer the much lighter (and one-third as expensive) 70-300mm VR. Personally I grab the 80-400mm VR for its extra reach, but its AF is too slow for action.

Nikon's PR shows the D700 with the 24-120mm VR. It's an OK lens, and Nikon's closest to a do-everything FX zoom, but it's among Nikon's least sharp lenses.

I'm hearing that Nikon will be kitting these with the 24-120mm VR. That's OK, but not likely to get you the sharpness and low-light sensitivity for which most people want a D700. The 24-120 VR just happens to have the price Nikon thinks you're likely to pay, and specs that seem attractive, but it's not the lens I'd get.

When I got my D3, the first lens I pulled out for general walking around was the 24-120 VR based on those very same presumptions, but I didn't like it. The vignetting is obvious at 120mm (unknown if the correction of the D700 fixes this).

Few if any pros use mid-range zooms, like the 24-120. Most use a wide zoom and a tele zoom, and maybe drop a 50mm in their pocket for low light. When I use a midrange zoom with my D3, I kid you not, I use the cheap plastic 28-80 G if I want sharp results, great macro and instant autofocus (faster than the 24-120 VR). I use the 28-200 G if I want to cover all focal lengths very sharply and have decent macro, but the AF of the 28-200 G isn't all that fast. Neither of the 28-80 G and 28-200 G are made anymore, which is why Nikon isn't pushing them. Each is a cheap plastic lens, but with stellar performance.

Hint: I never use a midrange zoom. For almost all my walking around and family photos, I use the 50mm f/1.4 D. The fast f/stop lets me stop action in any sort of darkness, all with clean, creamy and sharp images at the high ISOs so easy for Nikon's FX cameras.

Forget DX lenses. You'll get much sharper results and save $1,200 by using them on a D300 instead!

thanks to Stefanie Carle und Tuvalu for the link :D

Shine on

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July 1st, 08

coup de gueule ! (tain ca va chier...)

tout le monde fait ses courses dans les supermarchés

ok ?

bon

ya 10 ans aussi ?

bon..

vous souvenez vous des sacs en plastique blanc qu'on avait par milliers pour porter nos courses du caddie à la voiture ?

bon...

et maintenant ?

bin y en à plus ?

faux !

par esprit de preservation de la nature et d'écologie ils ont décidé de supprimer les sacs en plastiques blancs...
MAIS ILS LES ONT REMPLACES PAR DES VERTS !!!!!!!

je reve....

à chaque fois que vous allez au supermarché

comme moi vous oubliez les 2 sacs que vous aviez pris au dernier plein de courses n'est ce pas ?

bon...

et donc on en rachète !

hier j'étais chez l'aut qui change la vie vous voyez ?

un moineau rouge et vert la ...
bref ...

et bin un sac "recyclable" c'est DEUX EUROS CINQUANTE !

et si je veux pas et bin c'est 0.80 c je crois pour un sac vert

certe ce sac vert et plus épais et sois disant réutilisable (qui s'en est déjà servi deux fois ?)

...

vous allez me dire qu'on en utilise moins car ils sont plus grand

ouai mais qui dit plus grand dit plus costaud et donc plus épais !

donc plus de plastique !

je dis foutage de gueule !

donc je continuerai à faire mes courses en faisant attention aux prix du litre de nutella et du kilo de nouille alors que je fais aucun réel effort pour l'environnement

tout simplement car je suis un mouton (ca me rapelle quelque chose, une histoire de carotte...)

et que j'ai pas envie de me faire chier !

LES GRANDES SOCIETES JOUENT SUR NOTRE PARESSE !!!!

continuons de rien foutre, maintenant qu'on le sait !

ya plus urgent n'est ce pas ?

les enfants à la crèche,

la vodka au bistrot

la permanence à l'association

une séance photo entre potes

voila

c'était mon cri dans le vide

bonsoir :)

et joyeux noel en plastique !

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July 1st, 08

graph

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June 30, 08

Tequila

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June 30, 08

PIC LENS ON IPERNITY !! HELP THEM

http://www.ipernity.com/blog/team/74188

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June 29, 08

Contest interesting ! let's work for Earth

I suggest we make a contest with this thema :

" WATER IS A NECESSITY "

and we'll send this to this website

www.wateraid.org/uk

maybe it'll be usefull for something ?!

who wan't to try ?!

(i don't have any partnership with wateraid, and i do this totally free, this don't engaged wateraid in anything, this is just a kind thing without any present for the winner)

(and for the photographers that you are, it's a good exercice

let's try !

Shine on