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Originally Posted by sassan
Well I envy anyone who gets it as hot as it appears right now (Has Foxy not got it yet?) but for those who can afford it, its one wonderful picturing machine like nothing before made by Nikon.
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Well, Foxy is NOT going to get a D3. Foxy's main pursuit is aviation photography in particular airshows. This requires fast and accurate focus performance and a sensor that allows a crop to achieve good equivalent focal lengths. Nikon's latest is a full frame sensor has the pixel pitch of a D2Hs so it should resolve like a 4Mpx APS-C sensor (370mm2) but over a larger area (864mm2) totalling 12Mpx.
No doubt it will be the best wedding photographers camera and should take a good share of the full frame market dominated by Canon in recent years.
Foxy feels a little let down by Nikon as there is no professional grade APS-C camera in current production, unless Nikon are still manufacturing D2Xs which I doubt. The positive side is my D2X, rated for 150,000 shutter actuations has only done about 22,000 so I have some years left.
D300 does not offer the build quality or feel of a the D2X so I am left with a D2X which I believe will be a classic before not very long. D2X does still work whereas some believe their D2X will magically cease once the D3 becomes in more popular use. Its not about pixels either greater number of pixels has its drawbacks.
One issue I hated when D2X was new, attention - all other photographers drooling over my latest gear when I wanted to be alone and photograph the show for an afternoon. Attention I get lo longer and I can concentrate on my photography. Oh, the best bit was the 'focus issue' in the early days that I did not notice in the crystal clear shots I was getting. Others would come to me and exclaim my camera was rubbish because it would not focus - LOL D2X yielded a keep rate much higher than my previous Fuji S2-pro
My D2X will be enjoying its fourth season next year and I have to think how many D100, 200 now 300's would the photographer who keeps with the latest have purchased and what would it have cost - more than the original price of a D2X three years ago.
Two examples of my stuff ->
D2Hs
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1297678/L/
D2X
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1248836/L/
Any good from an obsolete set of cameras?