Nikon announces the new D700 Full Frame SLR

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Nikon has finally announced its new digital SLR, designed to fill the gap between its mid range and professional level SLR's.
Shipping later this month, it boasts a 12.1 Megapixel Full Frame Sensor, 5fps shooting, and ISO from 200-6400.

Link to Nikon's D700 page
 
So, its been announced at last, with a price tag of around £2000. At first glance, it looks like a full frame D300, so I`ll leave my money in my pocket and get to know my D300 more......, well, for a while......

Allan
 
Ah Nikon's answer to the 5D.

That's why Canon has yet to unveil the 5D MkII.

Well, I will say that it is a really useful segment of the market and Canon has been playing there all on it's own for a few years now so good for Nikon for finally addressing it.
 
Looks nice, be interesting to see how it compares to the 5d mk11
 
allanm said:
So, its been announced at last, with a price tag of around £2000. At first glance, it looks like a full frame D300
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You make it sound like a bad thing? Nikon have finally made a fullframe prosumer camera to compete with canon, and it uses the revolutionary sensor from the D3. 5D mkII is gonna have to be mighty impressive to compete with that....
 
Admin said:
Nikon has filled in the gap between its midrange and pro digital SLRs. The D700, announced today and slated to ship in late July 2008, looks like a D300, acts like a D3 and promises to be as big a hit as each of them. Nikon has taken the full-frame 12.05 million image pixel CMOS sensor from the D3, placed it inside a body that is similar to the D300, weaved in capabilities from both and put a price tag of US$2999.95 on the result.

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so that'll be £2295 then :annoyed: and not the £1500 it should be
 
It's 2600 EURO so should be closer to £2000 over here and probably a bit less when it hits the shelves. It's really not that far off the american price when you take into account local sales tax in some states.

But anyway, it looks pretty incredible and is seriously tempting me to jump ship.
 
I thought it was unusual that Nikon hadn't tried to hit that market hard yet.
 
Hate to say it but it looks like a canon beater on paper for all you money wasting techno junkies :lol:
 
OK - now lets all speculate on the NEXT new Nikon DSLR!!

24MP D3x?

D90?

D60x?

And when, for the love of Pete is the D4 coming out?!!!!!
 
Canon will be back :)

It looks like a nice camera, how big you reckon it is?
 
Same size as a D300, by the looks of it :)
 
I reckon the D3x or whatever they decide to call it will be next. Something to compete with and then trounce the huge pixel count of the big Canon boy.
 
I'ts not really much cheaper than the D3, which is what i'd rather have.
 
Yeah I agree-for an extra what £700 or so you can have the d3

I want a full frame sensor-but am bothered ill lose the extra distance with lenses and then have to buy even longer.

I get the equiv to 750mm from my bigma.

Also some of the lenses I have would goto dx crop anyway.

Ill wait another year until the d3 is about the same price I think
 
Technology marches on again eh.

If we keep getting improvements at this rate I wonder how long until we get a digi camera that's as good as film? :lol:
 
Magnum said:
I'ts not really much cheaper than the D3, which is what i'd rather have.
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I'm with you there mate, the US retail prices are apparently suggested at $3000, it's typical that the estimated UK prices are £2000!
 
Looks like it would be a great upgrade from my D80. Just need the lottery win now.
 
digitalmaniac said:
Yeah I agree-for an extra what £700 or so you can have the d3

I want a full frame sensor-but am bothered ill lose the extra distance with lenses and then have to buy even longer.

I get the equiv to 750mm from my bigma.

Also some of the lenses I have would goto dx crop anyway.

Ill wait another year until the d3 is about the same price I think
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It'll be 30% less than the retail within the first 8 months.
 
dazzajl said:
Technology marches on again eh.

If we keep getting improvements at this rate I wonder how long until we get a digi camera that's as good as film? :lol:
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I was telling a mate of mine; Canon and Nikon are in a race like BMW, Mercedes and Audi with their respective ///M, AMG and RS models! By 2050, each car will have 500,000 bhp! :lol:
 
Yep American dollars 2999 = 1,501.57 GBP, UK price about £2000 rip off Britain again, i will wait till next jan or feb as i've only just upgraded to the D300, hopefully will be about £1500 by then, and in the US it will probably be about £1000 :shrug:
 
tel48 said:
Yep American dollars 2999 = 1,501.57 GBP, UK price about £2000 rip off Britain again, i will wait till next jan or feb as i've only just upgraded to the D300, hopefully will be about £1500 by then, and in the US it will probably be about £1000 :shrug:
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Ditto. Could end up losing more on a D700 than on a D300 as the price drop won't be as large.
 
People who are moaning at the price, how much did you really expect it to be? I think it's an absolute bargain. It offers 90% of what the D3 does, in a package that is the size of a D300 at a pricepoint halfway between the two... I think that it's an asbolute bargain.

And we never, ever, ever get anything like US prices over here so there's no shock there.
 
Start of 2009 and it'll be £1500. If you buy or have a D300 now, you won't lose as much as £500 in that time.
 
Think about it. The D300 was £1200-£1300 when it was released. Just six months down, it's nearly £900! OK, it may drop a little more or perhaps not. it depends how much of a gap is meant to be between each model. But in the same time, the D700 will be around £1500.
 
digitalmaniac said:
I get the equiv to 750mm from my bigma.
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No you don't. You get 500mm from it wether you have a full sensor or a cropped one. What you will get from a full sensor is a wider field of view with the image being magnified exactly the same on either type of sensor.
 
Ive merged the threads and updated the first post.
 
Bit of price gourging going on?

The D700 should definitely be £1799 not £1999.

Looking at the US price (weak dollar), they are paying £1500 for it.

Add £350 VAT but we are still shafted with a "muggins" tax.

There is a £150 difference I can't account for - and the pound is strong vs the dollar and yen....
 
Steep said:
No you don't. You get 500mm from it wether you have a full sensor or a cropped one. What you will get from a full sensor is a wider field of view with the image being magnified exactly the same on either type of sensor.
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Oh ok maybe ive got the wrong end of what everyone has been saying all this time- 1.5 x ratio. Im now confused lol-never could get my head round this dx working it out.

So when they put sizes when selling a lens and say its full frame is say 35 mm making it about a 52mm in dx-doesnt a 52mm see further than a 35 mm
 
puddleduck said:
Add £350 VAT but we are still shafted with a "muggins" tax.

There is a £150 difference I can't account for - and the pound is strong vs the dollar and yen....
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Distributers in the UK will have higher costs than those in the US due to the higher minimum wage and higher cost of property. This gets passed on to consumers.
 
Steep said:
No you don't. You get 500mm from it wether you have a full sensor or a cropped one. What you will get from a full sensor is a wider field of view with the image being magnified exactly the same on either type of sensor.
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Yes but the D300 has higher pixel density, so his statement is effectively true.
 
Focal length stays the same it's the field of view that changes. effectively you get the field of view of a longer lens on a cropped sensor but technically the focal length hasn't changed :)
 
Jamougha said:
Yes but the D300 has higher pixel density, so his statement is effectively true.
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Exactly-when you might take a pic of a duck on the 35mm it would be small in the frame and on dx would be larger and would still have the 12 mp and if then cropped in would get even closer-which couldnt be done with the 35mm version at the same iq.
 
digitalmaniac said:
Exactly-when you might take a pic of a duck on the 35mm it would be small in the frame and on dx would be larger and would still have the 12 mp and if then cropped in would get even closer-which couldnt be done with the 35mm version at the same iq.
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All true but none of which makes any difference to the focal length of the lens that shot it.

Come on Martin, these are not the sort of questions that should come from a fully professional photographer. ;):lol:

The whole topic is a complete mare but the essence remains that a camera cannot change the focal length of a lens...... that's it.
 
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