Nikon D4 is coming....
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nobbylon
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From those pics it's iso is 3 stops better usable than my D700. That of course is only a small part of this camera's abilities. I'd love one if only to take more pics at the pub!
Anyone got a D3 they want to offload?
Anyone got a D3 they want to offload?
bowieknife
Established
a few months ago I saw hundreds of wedding pics shot with a D700, the photographer was a pro working for Cosmopolitan, her assistent too had a D700, both relied on high ISO even for indoor shots, no flash-
must say techically the pics were rather awful !
when you have no light, your pics will lack detail, will lack color, no matter how high-ISO capable your camera is !
dynamic range was very insufficient too, the brides gown had blown highlights all over, on close inspection images looked noisy, even at ISO 1600 !
while for photojournalists it is convenient to shoot discretely without flash, flash shouldn't be dismissed altogether-
at a wedding party dozens of amateurs use their p&s with flash anyway, so should the pro !
images I saw shot on the same day with an amateur D3000 (using the built-in flash) looked clearly better than the pro's !!!
must say techically the pics were rather awful !
when you have no light, your pics will lack detail, will lack color, no matter how high-ISO capable your camera is !
dynamic range was very insufficient too, the brides gown had blown highlights all over, on close inspection images looked noisy, even at ISO 1600 !
while for photojournalists it is convenient to shoot discretely without flash, flash shouldn't be dismissed altogether-
at a wedding party dozens of amateurs use their p&s with flash anyway, so should the pro !
images I saw shot on the same day with an amateur D3000 (using the built-in flash) looked clearly better than the pro's !!!
nobbylon
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For events and weddings I'm using no higher than 320 iso with the D700 and SB flashguns.
High iso capability has it's uses though when colour and absolute image quality are secondary to actually getting the picture. Any image in some situations is better than no image hence the capabilities of these high end press cameras.
High iso capability has it's uses though when colour and absolute image quality are secondary to actually getting the picture. Any image in some situations is better than no image hence the capabilities of these high end press cameras.
migtex
Don't eXchange Freedom!
Photo + Graph
with no Photons the remain is just ..Graphic...
with no Photons the remain is just ..Graphic...
willie_901
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As stated multiple times: this is a camera for people who make money with cameras.
Those people will buy the D4 because their D3 bodies have paid for themselves and because there is a tax benefit in buying new equiptment.
I knew a pro sports photographer who carried around a suitcase full of working pro Nikon bodies that had reached their mean shutter failure count. He sold these at a greatly reduced price to semi-pros he met on the road. Now his suitcase can be half as large. The point is this guy would go through more than one Nikon pro body per year so 400,000 actuations is nothing to him. He also had a suitcase full of lenses but that's another story.
The real point of the D4 to most of us is this sort of technology will be common in cameras advanced amateurs purchase in a couple of years.
For me, I plan to use my two D700s for commercial interior work until they break or are stolen.
Those people will buy the D4 because their D3 bodies have paid for themselves and because there is a tax benefit in buying new equiptment.
I knew a pro sports photographer who carried around a suitcase full of working pro Nikon bodies that had reached their mean shutter failure count. He sold these at a greatly reduced price to semi-pros he met on the road. Now his suitcase can be half as large. The point is this guy would go through more than one Nikon pro body per year so 400,000 actuations is nothing to him. He also had a suitcase full of lenses but that's another story.
The real point of the D4 to most of us is this sort of technology will be common in cameras advanced amateurs purchase in a couple of years.
For me, I plan to use my two D700s for commercial interior work until they break or are stolen.
jaredangle
Photojournalist
Nikon could definitely offer a smaller, say 200-page manual for obscure, specific menu options, supplemented by a DVD with a short, 5 minute how-to video on the camera basics and then a longer video for more of said menu functions.
I've been considering doing some basic five minute tutorial videos on all my cameras to put on youtube... I did one a while back on the Mamiya 645 (minus the tutorial, just basically showed the camera to the camera and posted the vid) and it's had some 30,000 views and several messages in the past months from different people asking where they can buy it.
