Comments on: News from Germany: Nikon D700 and SB900 in ProfiFoto magazine

By: Renato

Renato — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:00:45 +0000

D80 listed as prize for Nikon photo contest international (Nikon.com). Since prizes will be awarded next year … Can’t be, they’ll probably sub that for updated model.

2nd Prize 10 (5 from each category) Nikon Digital SLR Camera D80
AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm F3.5-5.6G ED VR

By: PPE

PPE — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:05:54 +0000

Are you a moron? 12mp…. is…. huge.

My D3 images look much better than anything from the 5D I had. The 5D is NOT a pro camera, its not sealed, its a cheap plastic body.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:53:01 +0000

don´t forget the adavantages which come with a ff-sensor …

By: freddyc

freddyc — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:51:48 +0000

Ok, now I’m convinced – looks like we have ourselves a D700! It also looks like the brochure scans from last week were genuine too. Now just waiting for the official announcement….

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:43:33 +0000

http://www.photoscala.de/grafik/2008/Nikon-D700-profifoto.jpg

http://i26.tinypic.com/2zs8v84.jpg

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:05:58 +0000

Yeah!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:05:04 +0000

I believe this is legit!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:54:18 +0000

Here we go!

http://www.photoscala.de/Artikel/Ganz-offiziell-Nikon-D700

By: kim

kim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:42:38 +0000

Nikon has 1 chance to challenge the 5D and an expensive de-spec’d D700 won’t do it. Slower AF, 95% view and junk like that would see me off to Canon. I think Nikon will give the best they have particularly with the 5Dii and the Sony hot on the trail.

By: Matthew Saville Photography

Matthew Saville Photography — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:29:12 +0000

You better believe the D700 has ony 95% viewfinder coverage. They have to differentiate from the D3 SOMEHOW! And, it's not easy to accommodate a 35mm viewfinder AND a pop-up flash, while maintaining 100% coverage.

Secondly, you'd better believe that the D700 is "only" 12 megapixels! Some of us are NOT willing to sacrifice certain aspects of image quality (not to mention practicality) for the sake of sheer resolution. Sure, I'm all in favor of ALSO making an 18 megapixel D700X, I'd love to have one for my landscape photography hobby. But I am ecstatic that they are at least STARTING at 12 megapixels. 12 is all I need for ALL my work, in fact a lot of the time 12 is even overkill, and I down-sample to 2.8 megapixels for the images I deliver to clients...

=Matt=

However, these rumors in particular don't sound believable at all. The SB900 sounds like a complete joke. Reads and communicates gels? Yeah, right!

By: Canonite

Canonite — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:07:34 +0000

Looks like ye Olde canon 5D is still a good buy….all those toys but still no decent sensor resolution

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:41:10 +0000

Nikon”>http://i26.tinypic.com/2zs8v84.jpg”>Nikon D700

By: RumpelHund

RumpelHund — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:22:21 +0000

Actually I got it at the railway station on saturday already, they open every day. It’s my business-laptop so I did not dare email (foolish me!).

I’ll send you a repro this evening (10h from now).

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:01 +0000

There is a scheduled meeting for Photo press folk in Australia. Is being held on 2 July. That is one day after the same folk are being briefed by Canon – tomorrow 1 July. Sounds like both companies have gear being released.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:44:59 +0000

Remember: Canon EOS 5D has a 96% viewfinder too.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:19:35 +0000

That is a good point actually. As well, they probably want to keep it from being a D3 without a built-in grip so deliberately de-spec it, so to speak. Maybe it will be like Canon, where the 40D, or even the 30D, outspecs the 5D in many things except sensor size. Regardless, I hope it’s true!

By: Blog Admin

Blog Admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:47:50 +0000

If you look at this forum (translated):

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.fotosidan.se/forum/showthread.php%3Fs%3D56b53630ae96b8397063dab87f3e18c0&threadid%3D94233&perpage%3D15&pagenumber%3D6

apperently someone was informed from Nikon about an announcement on July 1st (look for David’s posts).

By: Bernard Languillier

Bernard Languillier — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:29:28 +0000

My view is that Nikon is simply trying to replicate in digital their former film camera line up. This means that the only body in each line with 100% viewfinder is the pro bodies (D300 and D3).

The main target of the D700 is IMHO the guys still with film trying to migrate to digital.

Those people with F80 etc... are definitely used to a viewfinder not showing 100% of the scene. Besides live view does obviously show 100% for those needing this capability.

So, considering the cost etc..., I wouldn't be surprised at all if the D700 were indeed only 95%.

Cheers,
Bernard

By: Renato

Renato — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:54:15 +0000

Well, at least the cases when announcements were done at press conferences, we knew about them quite early. I think of both last year’s announcement of D300/D3 and this year’s ann. of D60. Some people have said they heard about Nikon reps mentioning meetings this coming week, but no confirmed conference that I know of.

By: Blog Admin

Blog Admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:52:26 +0000

… or July 1st