by Patrick on December 1, 2008
Studio Impressions Blog’s Marcus Bell was fortunate enough to get his hands on the Nikon D3x and has posted some sample images, and his initial thoughts:
Along with the camera I got to try out the all new Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AF-S lens. Even though the camera was a pre-production model I was extremely impressed with both [...]
by Patrick on December 1, 2008
Nikon has officially announced their new flagship model, the Nikon D3x. Ideal for studio or landscape photography, and dubbed the “The Digital Masterpiece”, the D3x features a 24.5 megapixel FX format CMOS sensor. The ISO range covers 100-1600, which is expandable to an ISO range of 50-6400. With the help of the EXPEED processing, the [...]
by Patrick on August 28, 2008
by Patrick on July 28, 2008
Rumors on a Nikon D900 instead of D3x. This seems unlikely to me based on the firmware leak a ways back that specifically mentions a D3x.
Nevertheless, Thom doesn’t seem skeptical at all, via photographybay::
I’m going to go a different direction: no D3x. Yes, a 24mp FX body, but it’ll be the D900. This allows them [...]
by Patrick on April 17, 2008
DPReview forum poster AxelR found the following in the newly released D3 firmware:
The following strings are in the D3’s B-firmware file v1.10, starting at offet 3′614′640:
6048×4032 24.4 M
4544×3024 13.7 M
3024×2016 6.1 M
5056×4032 20.4 M
3792×3024 11.5 M
2528×2016 5.1 M
3968×2640 10.5 M
2976×1976 5.9 M
1984×1320 2.6 M
D3x
There doesn’t seem to be much question that the D3 and theoretical [...]