Coming soon: The Nikon D700
By Emily Price
If you’ve had your eye on the Nikon D3 but have been put off by the price then Nikon’s newest FX-format digital SLR may be the perfect camera for you. The D700 has a lot of the same features that have made the pro-level Nikon D3 exceptionally popular, but comes in a smaller package and at a considerably lower price retailing for $2999.95 body only compared to the D3’s price tag of $4999.95.
The D3 and D700 have a variety of identical features including:
- An FX-format CMOS sensor at 12.1 effective megapixels.
- EXPEED processing
- 920,000-dot LCD screen
- ISO range up to 6400
- Scene recognition allowing for better auto exposure, autofocus, and auto white balancing with 3D tracking that allows the camera to track a moving subject and shift the AF point to match the movement of the subject.
- A 51-point auto focus system is linked to the scene recognition system and allows users to select a single AF point from 51 or 11 focus points. In the Dynamic-area AF mode users can select from 9,21, or 51 AF areas.
Major differences between the two cameras include cameras frame rate, shutter rating and the amount of memory cards the camera is able to hold.
- The D3 runs 9fps while the D700 will only be able to do 5fps
- Can only hold one memory card slot to the D3’s two
- Is only rated to 150,000 shots, where as the D3 is rated to 300,000.
The frame rate of the D700 can be increased to 8fps almost that of the 9fps of the D3 with an optional battery pack. The camera also has a few features that Nikon has improved since the release of the D3 including: Image sensor cleaning where vibrations remove dust from the low-pass filter in front of the cameras image sensor each time the camera is turned on and off, and improved Live View with the vertical horizon feature.
The Nikon D700 is scheduled to become available in late July.
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July 16th, 2008
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August 18th, 2008
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