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post #3466 of 4803
7/3/09 at 8:39pm
Thread Starter 
I wonder when the D800 will be released? I think I might just skip the D700 and just get whatever the real successor of D700 is (not D700x).
D700 has been out for a year, I don't want to kick myself for buying a D700 now and find out in 8 months time that a D800 is out.
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post #3467 of 4803
7/4/09 at 1:04am
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Originally Posted by dj_mocok View Post
I wonder when the D800 will be released? I think I might just skip the D700 and just get whatever the real successor of D700 is (not D700x).
D700 has been out for a year, I don't want to kick myself for buying a D700 now and find out in 8 months time that a D800 is out.
I think at the soonest it would be 12 months and not 8 months. But the way the world economy is right now can change all that- slower sales.
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post #3468 of 4803
7/4/09 at 9:43am
What if they just add video to the D700?
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post #3469 of 4803
7/4/09 at 1:14pm
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I want a D800 with a viewfinder as big as D3 (and D4 will have even bigger viewfinder).
Apart from that maybe one more stop of usable ISO, and maybe 3.5" LCD.
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post #3470 of 4803
7/5/09 at 1:57am
Is it sheer size, or 100% you're after? The latter would be the most sought-after for me.

I'm not sure if ISO performance will really improve that much over the D3/D700. MAYBE, but it would likely be in the increased-NR way the D300 improved over the D200. I'm not a fan of NR in general, and to me increased NR does not constitute better ISO performance. Lower A/D or amp noise are more what I'd be looking for. Will it happen, who knows?
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post #3471 of 4803
7/5/09 at 2:47am
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Size. I dont mind 96-98% coverage.
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post #3472 of 4803
7/6/09 at 4:24pm
I'm headed the other direction. My D200 is great, but it is too klunky to carry around everywhere with me. I'm thinking about a D50 or D80 that I can use all my DX lenses on that won't be as heavy and big.
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post #3473 of 4803
7/6/09 at 4:41pm
Any reason you're not interested in the D90, Bigshot? 3rd generation sensor is a nice piece of kit, even if no one will ever use the video feature.
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post #3474 of 4803
7/6/09 at 10:18pm
I'm looking for a body I can find used for $200 or less. It's going to be a second camera. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I dug this up and I'm getting ready to put it into action...

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post #3475 of 4803
7/6/09 at 11:18pm
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I'm looking for a body I can find used for $200 or less. It's going to be a second camera.
Fair enough. My D90 was $50, but I don't expect anyone else to stumble upon that deal any time soon.
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post #3476 of 4803
7/7/09 at 10:49am
$50... you forgot to include the price of the gun :P
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post #3477 of 4803
7/7/09 at 11:29am
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$50... you forgot to include the price of the gun :P
That's a sunk cost.

Actually, the dude dropped it in a pool and sold it to me as a movie prop. A little DI water (and a fresh lens) and it works beautifully.
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post #3478 of 4803
7/9/09 at 1:56am
Eh...I went ahead and did it. D700 incoming Monday. $2325 shipped after eBay coupon, Bing Cashback, and Chase Rewards; from Cameta with the MB-D10 and extra battery.

DX gear will be going bye-bye. Not that it is exactly gaining in value anyway. After re-reading Thom Hogan's D3x review, I became pretty convinced that the D700x (or whatever it will be) would end up needing a level of lens quality I won't soon be able to afford.
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post #3479 of 4803
7/9/09 at 3:01am
This hobby is pretty strange. I just picked up this lens for under $100...



It's the equivalent of an 85mm portrait lens. It goes with the Mamiya RB67 above which sells for around $400 with a normal lens... except instead of 12 megapixels with a DSLR, it's the equivalent of 120 megapixels. Absolutely no distortion, beautiful bokeh, built to last for a hundred years and sharp as a tack.
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post #3480 of 4803
7/9/09 at 8:30am
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Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer View Post
Eh...I went ahead and did it. D700 incoming Monday.

I became pretty convinced that the D700x (or whatever it will be) would end up needing a level of lens quality I won't soon be able to afford.
Congrats. What was the deciding factors of a new body instead of lenses with that $?
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