By Shelton Muller

I have been involved with various aspects of the launch of the Nikon D700 in Australia and I must admit -  I cannot overstate how impressed I am with this latest Nikon offering.

Those who know me know that I do love my Nikons. With the release of the latest in their line of fabulous DSLR’s comes the new Nikon D700, complete with what Nikon call their FX sensor. This is a 35mm sized sensor that they have correctly referred to as FX and not ‘full frame’. Why? Because every sensor is full frame. Its just that the size of the frame that varies. But its what this sensor can produce that is the important point. Would you like to see? Really?

Well click here to see a full size image taken with the camera at ISO 3200. Nothing has been done to the image at all. No sharpening. No white balance adjustments. No noise reduction. Nothing.

As you can see, there is such little noise that it took me quite a bit of zooming before I encountered anything worth mentioning.
It is said that photographers who have purchased the Nikon D3 rarely see the need to rate their ISO below 800 as it makes little difference to the human eye. That is quite something. I rarely like to rate my D200 anywhere above that, with noise becoming quite evident at around 800. With the same sensor and Expeed technology in the D700 there is little doubt it will sell well.

I will be getting a D700. No doubt about that.

For me, a person who likes to ‘find the light and put ‘em in it’, it is an ideal choice of camera. In the brief time I have had to use it I have found that it produces jpegs with accurate colour and perfect metering, meaning that with the hundreds of images I capture at each wedding there will require less time for post processing, such as white balance and colour corrections. It will save me much time and produce images that can be used straight from the camera. As yet I have not seen a camera produce such beautiful jpegs as I have from the D3 and the D700.

I look forward to getting mine and I will be keeping you posted here and at my photography tutorials website.

Entry was posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 6:22 am under .  Print This Post