Comments on: Official Nikon D300s survey

By: MarkusW

MarkusW — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:41:49 +0000

+1
That’s exactly what Canon does better than Nikon and Nikon doesn’t want(?) to see it. I would’ve bought a D700 instead of my D300s if only a good standard zoom lens existed. But doesn’t. The 24-120 is one of the worst lenses Nikon ever made and, as you say, the only ultra wide FF zoom lens is the 12-24…

By: NikorRyan

NikorRyan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:19 +0000

Survey appears to be closed now. I get “project is inactive”.

By: Fannwong

Fannwong — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:02:15 +0000

Just got this:

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By: Joe Boston

Joe Boston — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:48:34 +0000

Pentax did it. But then again, who the f*** shoots Pentax, anyway?

By: MoonDoggie

MoonDoggie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:58:05 +0000

I did it too!

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:58:07 +0000

yes, this was a good one – I had the exact specs more than 2 months before the announcement

By: Nubz

Nubz — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:37:17 +0000

By: another anonymous

another anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:49:18 +0000

absolutely, just the size, weight and price are not

By: another anonymous

another anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:46:11 +0000

just look up for better shoes current look is fully comfortable. hawk

By: another anonymous

another anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:42:16 +0000

really? they asked me that.. strange

By: another anonymous

another anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:40:58 +0000

uh, very very too too pricy for me.. and not even wanted

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:39:07 +0000

OK, I tried again, and made it thru.

The following things make me realize this was a survey written quite awhile ago:

1. in their list of lenses, they do not offer the 18-105 which came as the kit lens on my D90.
2. In their list of competitors cameras, under Sony, they do not list the Alpha 850.
3. Under photo-editing software, they do not list Photoshop CS4.

And the thing that really frightened me, they will not let you proceed past answering ALL the personality questions. If you skipped any (which you felt were totally stupid to be asking on this survey, and frankly none of their darn business!), they kept returning you to the page to answer them.

And the wording of some questions make me realize this was not written for American audiences. Something lost in translation a few times.

My word. Can’t Nikon do better than this?????

By: d3sboy

d3sboy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:38:58 +0000

really glad nikon did this survey.
thank you nikon rumors!

By: PHB

PHB — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:11:30 +0000

It is a serious question. I know four people who bought a D3 as a fashion accessory.

Its not like the fashion crowd have difficult to meet interests. Just make a batch of lenses painted in different colours.

By: SBGrad

SBGrad — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:02:48 +0000

I did that, three!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:02:48 +0000

“I enjoy the fact that I can use my digital camera as a fashion accessory/item.”
and especially this one:
“I enjoy the attention that I receive from others as a result of owning a digital camera.”

I so know a guy that would tick exactly those 2 and only those…

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:49:52 +0000

Interesting.

When I just tried to complete the survey, I was told it is temporarily unavailable. Wonder if Nikon realized they were getting some really odd answers to ??stupid?? questions they were asking? From the above comments, it looks like the questions were pretty off-topic??

I’ll have to try again later to see if it’s still unavailable.

Sigh….

By: dan

dan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:28:53 +0000

Yeah, I did that too!

I almost quit when I got to the page about using it as a fashion accessory etc.
I only carried on with the vague hope that I might somehow beable to influence what lenses they knock out next.
Also, what kind of English is this?
“I enjoy coming up with photo/picture composition/layout.”

OH WOW.
I just got to the end
‘tick which most applies to you’
“Sometimes, I feel like I want to forget everything and go away.”

Is this for real?

Also, there were hardly any questions about lenses. Screw you guys, it took me ten minutes to load each page with my crappy internet connection.

By: Anonymous1

Anonymous1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:16:52 +0000

Maybe they’ll offer it in a range of colours, so that you can choose your camera every day according to the clothes you wear. (Or shoes in your case, of course. )

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:58:52 +0000

Or what about correcting lens distorsion, making fat models slimmer (!) etc?
You need as many native pixels as poss for post editing work if you want toi keep some original sharpness. 50 million would be about roght and after you finished save a 12 or 15 million pixel perfect sharp image.

Just a simple re interpolation to correct a slightly bowed wall in an architectural shot robs much sharpness that you can even see in a small 10 x 8 image never mind a big poster sized one.

24 is ok. You dont “have” to save all your images at this level if you dont want to. But 12 isnt enough. It was before I bought the 14-24 and 24-70 and the newest posetion 70-200 vr2 lens. But now they well and truly out resolve the sensor…