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"After 30 days of shooting with my Nikon D3 im still in love, but a few cracks may be entering."
Pros: Fantastic Speed, True colours, Great and crystalclear 922.000 pixel screen, and Great High ISO performance.
Cons: Ghostly effects on Tele, Unsupported unfinished Capture NX software, And hard to get for some.
Summary: I was one of the lucky to get my Nikon D3 on November 30th, with a 14-24mm and a 24-70mm.
First hand impressions where pretty good coming from Canon Mark IIN. The viewfinder is great and thats important. Next one thing that Nikons seems to rule out of their promotions is the beautiful colours rendered. I havent seen such great reds before.
The fullframe is so great to see again. Its the first DSLR camera to deliver filmlike files. With the charms and nocharms of old fullframe filmcameras. I love it due to reportage and soft corners. But for high precision shooting with clear edges, i would stay canon with a crop factor of 1.3
ISO performance is awesome. Hello 3200 ISO and even hello 6400 for a few assignments.
The higher the ISO the less sharp images of course, but i have never seen this on any kind of camera and its really usefull and has opened up my eyes for nonflash dim lighted photography.
But somehow i feel very uncertain using Nikons 70-200mm 2.8 VR with the NIKON D3. The higher the Focal Length the more ghostly blur its seems to gather. I have submitted files indicating this to Nikon, but it seems that they rather busy with producing for the large number of unfortunate people who havent recieved yet. So maybe its a firmware issue or i was unlucky buying a faulty 70-200 2.8 VR. Canīt say more than that.
I use lightroom, but do have the commercial license of Capture NX 1.3 which was in the Box for the first NIKON D3 owners. Its unfortunate that the latest version 1.3 isn't supported on MAC OSX 10.5 and NIKON warns users from using it on LEOPARD cause it can ruin your files. So a month later still no working software for MAC users. It seems like they are more busy than good is.
Finally i must say that Nikon has created a great new camera, which i donīt regret 3 seconds buying. I just hope that the ghostly effects will be fixed in future firmware releases and that everybody waiting for theirs soon get it. Nikon created a huge demand, but really are behind with delivery, which is semi pro marketing in my mind.
Kind Regards Sofus Comer, www.scomer.dk
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Your 70-200mm lens is likely just fine. Dpreview found in their review that lens is a 10 on the DX sensor, but has some performance issues on the much more demanding FX sensor. Expect a redesigned 70-200 for full frame in the near future. The D3 pushes all lenses to their max, and some beyond.
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