The Nikon D3 is a lot more than reading revews and specifications could ever suggest. Just like the D300, the D3 has image processing tricks that makes it easier to create exactly the image I want over even more conditions than ever before. The D3 then adds more speed, more finesse, more lens choices, triple the battery life of the D300 and a real time viewfinder camera-level display on top of it. The Nikon D3 is the best camera ever made by Nikon. It was announced on August 23rd, 2007. As of the beginning of 2008 it's just starting to trickle into the hands of photographers. The Nikon D3 excels for news, sports and event photography where you need it to work under any condition. If you get knocked over and knocked out, you'll come up shooting with the D3 even if you're still seeing stars. The D3 just works as an extension of your imagination. Nikon cameras, even the rangefinder cameras of the 1950s, have always been about hand-held use for news and sports. The Nikon D3 is the best of over 50 years of continuous camera and lens development. |
March 12, 2012
Nikon D3
March 9, 2012
Nikon D4
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| Nikon D4 (47.3 oz./1.340g with battery and card) with 50mm f/1.4. |
The new Nikon D4 offers slightly higher frame rates, slightly higher resolution, an updated AF system that works better with teleconverters, Kelvin white balance settings in 10K increments, a virtual horizon that finally works properly with both roll and pitch, much higher ISOs than the D3 and D3s, and wow, video.
The Nikon D4 is aimed at full-time professional news, sports and action photographers – or videographers shooting Canon DSLRs.
For landscape, nature and portrait and wedding photographers, the Nikon D3x still has more resolution. For use in the field, the Nikon D7000 has the same resolution as the D4 with a lot less weight.
For most of us, the Nikon D4 is just a minor update to the D3, unless one of its features, like video or seeing in the dark at six-digit ISOs is a must-have for you. Otherwise, it's still the same
camera as 1996's Nikon F5: there hasn't been any significant advance in basic ergonomics, shutter speeds, flash sync, metering or much of anything else for the past 16 years. (In fact, the Nikon F5's shutter goes all the way down to a timed 30 minutes all by itself, which I use and which no DSLR does.)
camera as 1996's Nikon F5: there hasn't been any significant advance in basic ergonomics, shutter speeds, flash sync, metering or much of anything else for the past 16 years. (In fact, the Nikon F5's shutter goes all the way down to a timed 30 minutes all by itself, which I use and which no DSLR does.)
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