Francis Carver He-he-he-he. Alizarine Sony fan? Clint Dunn Yet another reason to get on the pre-order lists Francis Carver If you are a fool Vladimir Bobov As a Canon shooter who was somewhat dismayed by the price of the 5d3, I must say I find this news absolutely hilarious! Jun2 UK price not US price. Aleo Veuliah Marketing strategy to have low prices and now raise them? Or really a mistake Anyway the cameras at the new price are a good choice. Gary-UK Order cancelled.
Douglas F Watt Let's see - comments about a price increase? Douglas F Watt Obviously, you are one of the whiners. Clint Dunn Seriously Douglas Thanks for coming out. Francis Carver Yeah Peak Nice launch rebate! HarrieD What is the problem? MediaDigitalVideo Which shop do you prefer? Nigel45 I pity anyone who has ordered one.
FiReDuCk Lets put this way, what if tommorrow Nikon decide to rise the price even higher then Hasselblad h4d because got it got freaking Ivanaker After you bomb Siria and Iran you will make that money you gave to Japanese back.
Caleido Exactly which body is "insanely" priced, Nostradamus? Clint Dunn Jean Baptiste Francis Carver The Japanese are going down fast.
DaSigmaGuy Not really Alan Debankur Mukherjee Nikon needs more money to renovate their Thailand Plant after the flood hence the additional increase in price. FiReDuCk Maybe you are right but however there is something we don't realise that Nikon did file insurance Thailand and Japan to claims for the compensation. DaSigmaGuy Debankur, if that is true, then why are they only grabbing the extra money from UK customers? Martin Gowar A professional photographer friend of mine over here in England tells me that recently his faulty Nikon D1X was returned via Calumet from Nikon unrepaired, with a letter stating that as the camera was discontinued, no servicing was no longer available.
DaSigmaGuy Martin, does this apply to Canon too? Dave Oddie Well I find it quite shocking Nikon cancels service support for its professional line of cameras so quickly. Dave Oddie Clint. Dan When your classic car breaks down, what do you do?
DaSigmaGuy I think not Digitall "Internal System Error" Is this any movie title? Take a Easyjet flight and get one ;. Nobody cares. Kill yourselves. Tape5 Well that is not true. SeeRoy That's what I was thinking. SeeRoy Well, if they're abandoning D3 owners in you'd have to expect them to cut D owners loose around the same time, wouldn't you? AbrasiveReducer I suspect Canon is the culprit, here. No relief in site for the shriveling dollar.
AbrasiveReducer It would be a blunder if it had an effect on sales but as you rightly point out, it won't have an effect on sales. What's kind of business Nikon is running? AshMills Blimey, which country are you in that is so loved around the world? Bastion of World Peace and Global Love. Are you really saying "British people deserve to pay more"?
Seems a tiny bit harsh. Tape5 But even Comrade Lenin would not approve of this Nikon act of petty bourgeoisie. CriticalI Accusing a country of racism is a bit racist don't you think? Boxbrownie Er You might learn something Surely you mean the Irish. Your poorly disguised xenophobia really is laughable. Damo83 I get businesses exist to make money. This is just bad business practise. You may also like. Olympus offers Stylus SH-2 with Raw support.
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One takes classic CF cards, the other the smaller cards in SD format. The use of memory cards can be configured in a variety of ways. Or both cards store the same files, so that a backup is created in the camera.
Of course, one card can also serve as an extension of the other in the classic way, so that the storage capacity is increased. A slot for especially fast XQD cards remains reserved for the top model D4. The image processing capabilities offered by the D in playback mode are extremely generous. The D even comes with a perspective correction function, which can be used to minimize falling lines, and even a correction function for barrel or cushion-shaped distortions is available.
In contrast to other 35mm DSLRs in their price range, Nikon has equipped the D with a small on-board flash, which with its guide number of 12 at least serves as a close-up brightener.
And more: In combination with wirelessly connected system flash units, the integrated flash of the D serves as the master for the setup — no additional external flash is required. As one of the few cameras at all, the D can take photos fully automatically at fixed intervals. Optionally, it saves the interval sequence as a video file, resulting in a time-lapse movie. Speaking of film: While the Canon 5D MK II set standards for video recording almost four years ago, Nikon now also meets the great wishes and requirements of videographers with the D It records videos with a maximum resolution of 1, x 1, pixels Full HD , has a connection option for an external stereo microphone and allows the audio level to be manually adjusted.
Demanding videographers are more likely to be bothered by the fact that the D records video at a maximum frame rate of only 30 full frames — even some simpler cameras today can handle double the frame rate. The D compensates for this with an HDMI socket that can output the uncompressed video stream directly and without detour via the memory card. However, if a memory card is inserted during video recording, the HDMI jack transmits the Live View image with the recording information displayed to an external control monitor.
The D proves to be more of an endurance runner than a sprinter when it comes to taking serial pictures. Equipped with the standard EN-EL15 rechargeable battery, the camera records image series at a rather leisurely 4 frames per second fps.
The status display shows the number of photos that still have space in the internal buffer memory. The rather leisurely pace is clearly due to the large volume of data that the megapixel sensor delivers. The camera then switches to a crop mode with an extension factor of 1.
A small drawback in practice was that the standard zoom does not have an image stabilizer. Nikon relies on an optical stabilizer, but does not equip every lens with the vibration reduction system. It takes over the AF module with 51 sensors from the D4, of which 15 are cross sensors. Eleven sensors are particularly light-sensitive and operate up to a light intensity of F8. Since even the smallest deviations from the optimum focus setting can cause visible blurring at the immense sensor resolution, the AF of the D can be fine-tuned for up to 20 lenses.
In practice, however, much more important is the speed at which the D focuses and triggers when the shutter release button is pressed: the picture was in the box after 0.
Especially impressive is how Nikon improved the autofocus of the D in Live View mode. Accompanied by a soft mirror stroke, the camera found the point of focus after about one second and released it. However, Live View mode unfolds its full potential when manual focus is required. The viewfinder image can now be displayed in 23x magnification on the rear display, the section to be displayed can be freely selected.
However, it proves to be a shortcoming that the display cannot be folded up or down — for example, when shooting close to the ground, you might have to put yourself out of shape. All in all, however, the Live View of the D has proven itself in practice, even with automatic focusing. If the ambient light is not sufficient for the autofocus, it is assisted by a bright white auxiliary light. Fortunately, the obtrusive light can be switched off — it is only necessary in really adverse lighting conditions anyway, in the dim light of a pub the D easily managed without any bright light.
For a long time, Nikon was rather conservative when it came to sensor resolution, as can be seen from the D3xab, which is not much in demand due to its price.
The D still had to manage with a modest twelve megapixels, while 21 megapixels and more resolution established themselves in the mid-range of full-format DSLRs. Some photographers will ask themselves quite rightly whether this impressive number of pixels is reflected at all in a corresponding image quality. As befits a professional camera, the D is very cautiously tuned.
It leaves gripping contrasts and screaming bright colours to others, while the D convinces with its love of image detail and its ability to create the finest colour and brightness gradations. The output tonal range remains close to the theoretical maximum of gradations per channel up to about ISO , but even at ISO 6. Not quite as convincing is the input dynamic, the D processes up to ISO 1, brightness differences of about ten f-stops.
However, the very honest JPEG tuning should play a role, with correspondingly adjusted tonal value curves e. So, I am trying to like my D Thank you for your time and your great articles! I just read your review and am a de shooter that used the d for one week… In some way i have a different experience: I find the D having more contrast than the d80e — I use the neutrla camera profile now in ACR where i used to choose the standard camera de profile… strange…?
Also the 64 asa mode is a step forward i find. It has more detail and contrast in the dark areas.. The color is also different and better i find. Less yellow green-more magenta. Images look a bit clearer.. What do you think after 1. So far mostly good. Thanks Ming. Thanks for the others who intelligently replied. This part below the article is so important. Sold my 2nd De, wonder it it was a mistake. No focus problem but never trusted left side. If I ran Nikon, I would realize that the D owner are very serious photographer and top of the field.
My recall would include a formal polite apology letter, Priority over night shipping both directions, Nikon repair wastes two precious days on paperwork processing, this would be eliminated. The real issue with the repair is that it takes too long if the D is your primary camera which is my situation.
Not to mention the hassle and cost and possible damage in shipping. Hopefully fixed this time! Do we live in s? Just tried it. Yes, it works that way, but exposure delay will also mean you get that 1s lag in every other mode. One could toggle the d4 and d5 settings with memory banks to avoid delay in other modes.
To protect against inadvertently altered memory banks, I reload the camera settings fairly often from a file stored on the secondary memory card. That requires removing the primary, which, again, would probably drive some people nuts.
Tastes vary. Not at web sizes, everything looks the same. Can you offer any advice on what might be a better workflow? Appreciate any help you might be able to provide. Here we go again. What is your thoughts on the service advisory on the D This is the US link, but there are others for the rest of the world. I had to send my D back 3 times for them to get it right.
One of the times it came back so filthy inside, I almost think they intentionally put that much debris inside the camera. Not happy at all about this. Who wants to play guess the D launch defect? At least they issued a fix for it fairly soon though…. I do do some long exposures and have yet to order… Thanks again for your great work here, Much appreciated. Just got my D after trading in a perfectly good D the shutter on the later makes too much noise for nature work.
After spending a morning optimising the focus on mm f4 and mm 2. This is the third new camera I have had problems with two D returned to shop. My wife bought a Panasonic FZ at the same time and having great fun with it. Just about sick with Nikon and seriously thinking of trading it all in and getting an FZ myself and a G4 for digiscoping.
Otus lenses do not have so many local lengths. The D was a disaster in terms of spots, now the new D has problems. Nikon makes makes too many concessions to quality. This will make the semi professional and professionals unhappy.
Leica made cameras that ate buffers, had strap lugs that fell off, sensors cracking…I personally had an experience with card corruption that cost me a job and a client.
How is this better? At least with the Nikons I can afford to buy a backup. Nikon getting out ahead of this long exposure issue is just frosting on the cake…. Ok…I returned my D because I didnt want to send it in for the thermal fix.
I purchased a new one that already had the fix applied black dot in tripod socket and new firmware. When I started to test the new camera, I felt something wasnt right. The things I noticed on my first D like improved white balance, great skin tones and snappy auto focus didn feel the same with the replacement body.
I dont know the exact amount because I didnt shoot a jpeg first and check the count. I did this later, after about to pictures and I was already at I wonder where all of those clicks came from. I ended up returning this one also because it just didnt fell right. I then purchase my third D This one did not have the black mark on the tripod socket but it did have the updated firmware and a much higher serial number than the 2nd.
I assume the fix was applied during production in the factory. I start taking test shots and right away, the quality is exactly like my first D I notice right away.
I shot a jpeg as my first picture an the shutter count reflected 1. But oh yes, a new problem. When I tried to take the lens off, I noticed the lens release button felt a little weird. It would not fully depress and I couldnt get the lens off. I had to rotate the lens back and forth ever so slightly to get the button to release. From then on, I had to do this same procedure about 1 out of every 5 times i put a lens on. This was for 5 seperate lenses that all mounted without issue on 5 different Nikon bodies.
Now I am worried this is a precursor to one of these problems. There is something wrong with the lens mount and. My guess is the locking pin is not going in to the hole on the lens and by wiggling the lens, it aligns better and therefore allows me to depress the relase button, but if I dont catch it just right, the button does not press down.
This is really a pain because I have tested and calibrated all 5 lenses with each of these bodies. My insurance agent is going to explode when I tell her she has to make another serial number change.
It sounds like you got a return, and then a dud. I had the locking pin break on my D3 also; time to send it back. I did some tests today by putting the camera on a tripod pointing at a test target, and then took 10 consecutive shots using phase-detection re-focused every time using different focus points. If the target is something other than a test chart e.
Did you have any chance to test focus consistency with the D? If, say, you put the camera on a tripod with 85 1. Can you get, like, sharp shots? BTW, my experience is kinda similar to what Lloyd described here. This behaviour is visible even on the f1. So you say, even with the D that focuses better than the D, your experience in relation to the focus consistency is kinda similar to mine?
Hello, Ming! Firstly, let me say that yours is by far the most well written review an the D i was able to find so far online. Do you think the d solves these shortcomings? Thank you. Thanks for the quick reply. The improved AF is really good news and it would make it worth upgrading, at least for me. In fact, I see differences in the way the cameras handle dynamic range and noise — the D is highlight biased, the DE shadow biased — both deliver equally excellent results if you operate the cameras appropriately.
Yes — 64 is a bit cleaner and has a bit more DR than , and definitely more than the former L50 setting. L32 is much like L50 though,and oddly a bit soft.
I am an event photographer and nailing focus and exposure are most important to me. Can you tell me more about this mode? Do all highlights get preserved? Nice review Ming! Thanks a lot. I am planning to upgrade to a full frame as I am planning to start photography professionally. I want to get into weddings, events and portraits. I am utterly confused as to which camera to go in for. I also like the way Canon feels in the hands.
I am in a serious dilemma!! Kindly, help me taking a decision, keeping in view the kind of genre I want to get into. Thanks in advance. Regards, Amandeep Singh Multani. Frankly…any of these options are more than capable enough. A very good, accurate and informative review and very consistent with my own findings after a week of shooting with the D I am an experienced DE user, and shoot the Leica M as well. I agree with Ming that their is no noticeable difference in the IQ between the DE and the D when using the Zeiss Otus and other high quality lenses.
So far, I have mainly used the D for commercial aircraft images with the Nikon G lens and can report the following issues. I find the images sharp, but not quite as sharp as similar images in the similar conditions with the DE.
I am finding the presence of more noise at low ISO levels in the images, perhaps Nikon might argue this is greater dynamic range? I find the increase in FPS, for this type of photography to be astoundingly superior to the DE and the bufferring is blazing, in fact a faster FPS is not needed at all. I find the electronic front shutter mechanism completely useless as it seems it can only be enabled and used in MUP format which makes it useless for me. Another issue, when using M mode, and getting the exposure exactly right in camera, I find as I found with my DE, that the camera always seems to over expose by half a stop.
I find myself stopping down to compensate for this and have never understood why this happens. Perhaps I should change from matrix to centre weighted metering? Best regards to Ming, all the best!
It should help, possibly a lot. Other lenses like my Zeiss ZF. AF Fine Tuning helps compensate for variation in camera and lenses within the tolerances of manufacture, and help get the camera and lens to match better. The setting only applies to the pentaprism viewfinder focusing AF or electronic rangefinder , not to Live View AF, which focuses using sensor data.
I have read that super-telephotos being used for distant subjects may be better adjusted using trial and error evaluation on very distant targets, rather than a printed target close up close targets seem to work well for shorter lenses though. Hope this helps. You note marginal image quality differences between the D and the DE. Just curious if you had the same experience?
On the D I noticed a AF drift of 10 micro adjustment points between daylight and tungsten light with my 85mm 1. This is of course very annoying if you change location on a shoot. I know that phase detection is prone to this behavior. Did you notice any improvement in this regard with the D? Unfortunately, no. It seems to be the case with all PDAF cameras. For really critical indoor stuff I go with LV.
Thanks very much for your informed and specific write up. The d has finally pushed me into upgrading from my faithful old D Have you had a chance to try the D with the 55mm Zeiss Otus? I suspect that could be a giant killer of a combination, esp with a 3 frame stitch scenario. I know being an artist and a photographer are more important to you than being a reviewer so thanks so much for taking the time to do this. The reason they look so poor compared to the D is because the ACR update for the D is still a beta version…it does not work properly.
I have seen many reports of the same problem; ACR makes the files washed out notice how the colours are much more muted on the D in your example , and it also makes them appear noisier. As one of those guys keeping the World economy turning over, I was excited about the D release.
Thanks for the write up, Ming. And clearly from your review the D shows a commitment to both IQ and slow, steady iteration. Well, some of them are still getting it right Ricoh, Fuji, Olympus, for the most part and some are at least experimenting Sigma. Meanwhile, Nikon has been neglecting clear and obvious gaps in their imaging division, whilst simultaneously allowing customer service to slide, which, in turn, becomes a PR crisis that has to be managed … but even that seemingly only gets addressed under duress.
In fact, they may not even be able to maintain corporate headquarters in all regions anymore. Olympus is the pound gorilla — most of my healthcare clients use Olympus for the endoscopes and Zeiss for surgery robotics, sometimes microscopes. Nikon is nowhere to be seen….
The s were a very different landscape photographically: Nikon Nipon Kogaku K. K, at any rate were lens makers; Canon copied Leica, and everybody made M and screwmount. Nikon does make some very good microscopy equipment, but then again so do Zeiss and Leica. Nikon will be taken over by Sony is my prediction.
Sony at least know how to think outside the box it seems with a stream of innovative products in the last 2 years. This review is such BS. Plan and simple BS. Nikon does not care about you and will not take care of existing users. Plain and simple. And you must be the same eloquent technical expert and artist with same email address who sent this? Fuck you, fuck your family. Fucking loser. Oh, and your imagery fucking sucks. I have taken dumps that look better. I get through life just fine.
I appreciate your concern for my well being but I assure you I do just fine. I do enjoy calling out fanboy asshats like yourself. There are 3 physical differences between the D and D Everything else is firmware. I have serious regrets with my decision to give nikon my money. The 5d iii is still a better camera than the brand new D For a fucken firmware upgrade.
I know this review was mostly written for old people in retirement drawing multiple pensions and able to toss money around like its nothing. I am not one of those people. I dunno. Way to go jackasses. And I am going to laugh even harder when this worthless company folds. Which is going to be soon by the look of their stock.
Digital cameras always drop in value, from the moment you buy them, you lose value. The manufacturers will always release new models every few years, sometimes with small improvements, sometimes with large ones. The electronics will slowly degrade over time due to the physics of the materials they are made from, and eventually the camera will be either unrepairable or not worth fixing due to better models available at a similar or lower price.
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