{ Nikon D700 }
Imaging Resource finally gets their D700 review up.
Reviews like this make it awfully hard to keep telling myself that my upgrade camera of choice is the D300. I know this is beating a dead horse but you can always boil the beauty of the D700 down to:
Combining the best of the D300 with the excellence of the D3 is a masterstroke…
Because really every review of the D700 is like reading a review of the D3 and the fact that these incredible attributes are packed into a smaller, slower camera body, does very little to discourage the serious consumer from wanting it especially when you then factor in the enormous price difference between the D700 and the D3. So when you read:
High ISO images were really extraordinary: Together with the D3, the Nikon D700 clearly leads the field in high-ISO performance, thanks to its large pixels, CMOS sensor technology, and Nikon’s excellent noise-reduction processing. D700 images shot under incandescent lighting (always the tougher test) looked great when printed at 8×10 inches, all the way up to ISO 6400. At ISO 6400 and at that size, there was a little noise present, but we had to look close to see it (closer than you’d normally view a print of that size), and it was very fine-grained. - There’s also almost no chroma component to the D700’s noise at ISO 6400, making it even less apparent than noise patterns from many other cameras with similar “grain” size. Shot under daylight-balanced lighting and printed at 13×19 inches, the D3’s ISO 6,400 shots were softer and somewhat noisier than those at lower ISOs, but the results were still pretty amazing…
Just remind yourself this refers to the performance of two camera bodies, one being $2000 less than the other one. Now multiply this by countless other flagship-like capabilities and it’s easy to see why the D700 is so hard to resist.
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