Nikon finally unveils D700 DSLR
After months of meticulously crappy fakejob Photoshops — grainy '7's superimposed over the D300 imprint up the wazoo — the Nikon D700 has finally been officially announced, and it's what everyone expected: a new semi-highend DSLR falling somewhere in between the D3 and D300.
The D700 matches the D3 with its 12.1 megapixel CMOS, and a remarkable sensitivity to low-light conditions, with an ISO range from 200 to 6400 (with some sort of magic toggle that allows it to go up to ISO 25600). There's also a new Kevlar / carbon fiber shutter, which should allow quick-reflexed photographers to deflect incoming bullets with just a click of the shutter, provided they have already attained a state of Zen Buddhist meditation. There's also an EXPEED processor with four levels of Active D Lighting and a built-in flash with wireless controller.
In truth, this is way too much camera for me, but if you know how to use half this crap, you may well be interested. The Nikon D700 will be in stores later this month for $3,000.
Nikon D700 [Official Site]
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The reason for the high ISO performance is that the D700 has a full frame sensor.
This means that you get the same field of view as a film camera. Your 20mm wideangle remains a super wideangle, on a D300 it´ll shrink to a semi-wideangle with a view like a 30mm lens on a D700 o film camera.
This is the most important feature of the D700!
its 12.1 megapixel CMOS if you please...
Looks like a shiny camera, but I'm a Canon man for absolutely no reason at all.
I wonder how many of these $3000 cameras they'll actually sell. The market would seem to be mostly professionals and well off, motivated amateurs. So was there really that much eager anticipation to begin with?
@felsby
This is indeed great news for Nikon users, especially those who've seen the lack of a full-frame DSLR as a reason to resist going digital. Canon's been eating their lunch in this segment for years now.
@Matthew Walton
I, too, am a Canon user without great conviction. But I do have reason to stay that way: a couple thousand dollars worth of lenses.
This is a good thing for the industry.
Though I am getting tired of the planned obsolesce of the entire industry at least they are finally getting into making full frame cameras.
Canon will be answering back soon.
@w000t: The D3 has given Nikon users a full frame sensor for almost a year now. But now we get full frame for about $2000 less. Still too rich for my blood though, I'm sticking with the D300.