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D700 Should i or shouldnt i
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i am thinking of upgrading from my D80 to a D700, has any one here taken the plunge? what would be your view on it, if i am gona get it ill be waiting till at least may or june but best to get some other ppl views.
If you must have a full frame sensor, then yes but if you have only DX lenses you will need to buy some new glass to get the best out of the FX sensor.
Cheers, John
well my plan i had in my head was to get 17-24 24-70 ill have the 70-200 in a few weeks so i was gona sell my 10-20 sigma and the other lens i have bar my 50mm f/1.8
The classic set would be the 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200 but that is an expensive shopping list. The 50 1.8 is definately worth keeping, the others are big lenses.
i am aware of the costs and i can afford them and would like to get them before i cant afford them if yea get me. but being able to afford it isnt whats driving me for it its is it worth it in the end
all this talk of dx lens and cropping, i heard that you can use dx lens no problem and full frame if you dont shoot at the widest, , if you multiply int widest focal by the sensor crop, that figure is the widest you can go on fx without vigetting?true or bull?
D700 knows when there is a DX lens on and crops the sensor automatically.
With some lenses, If you put them on a film body they vignette – and yeah, you’ll only notice that at the wide end – be careful though if you try and put a canon ef-s lens on a full frame/film camera it’s gonna break if you force it.Absolutely get them if you can afford them now spud. You’ll have the lenses for life if maybe you get a new body in a few years. All that equip is on my wish list but alas it will be a while.
‘:lol:’i think its a defo to go with and as u say teh lens will last me a life time (or should!)
A good lens should last several lifetimes-
but it seems that the electronics might be the weak link in the future…Nikon’s F mount has been around a long time too-
There were some (mostly non Nikon users) who seemed to think they’d have to change the mount to do full frame digital…
but as the haven’t, I’d say that it should still be around when we’re all in our dotage-Or a lot longer than that, in my case-
j
I have the D700 and I can say that it is a great camera. If you dont need an FX then you could also consider the D300 and spend the rest of the money on good glass. If you normally shot at over 200mm then stick with the DX for it will give you the extra magnification needed. Any lens over 200mm for the full sensor will break your pocket (I am taking about Nikon lenses).
Aimee wrote:
D700 knows when there is a DX lens on and crops the sensor automatically.
With some lenses, If you put them on a film body they vignette – and yeah, you’ll only notice that at the wide endto clarify this, The ability of the d700 (D3 D3x) to detect a DX lens and crop the sensor is a feature of the cameras and can be turned off. Meaning you can use DX lenses with the entire FX sensor.
With zooms, expect the widest end of your lens to have serious vignetting. Typically vignetting is almost gone by 1/2 way through the focal range of a DX zoom.
be careful though if you try and put a canon ef-s lens on a full frame/film camera it’s gonna break if you force it.
this is not an issue with Nikons.
I came from the D70>D200>D300>D700 and the D700 is the only camera that I feel would stay with me for a very long time. That said, the D300 is a superb camera and at iso200 there is no significant difference if you expose correctly. The D700 comes into it’s own if you’ve mucked up and need to bump up exposure or recover highlights. The D700 has an advantage that I would call significant here but compared to your D80, the D300 is a large step forward already. The D300/D700/D3 seem to have a different tonality to them than previous Nikons I’ve used, the new Picture Controls could be a large part of that but applying those to old RAW files from previous cameras doesn’t seem to replicate what I see from the newer models. Make of that what you will but it was a huge step forward for me when I saw the quality of jpg’s from the newer cameras, so less tweaking of RAW files speeds things up significantly for me. The landscape/vivid type settings seem a bit wilder than I remember on previous cameras, I use Neutral all the time now but maybe it’s just my tastes have changed!
The D700 is a nice step forward with high ISO of course, I dont think twice about using 1600 and even 3200 if needed which makes for great event photographs.
For me the biggest factors for upgrading were that I already had first class full frame lenses (17-35 2.8, 24-70 2.8, 80-200 2.8 ) and since I do a lot of night photography being able to use the 17-35 2.8 is great since the viewfinder is a bit brighter with this lens and manual/auto focus work much better with
the increased light and larger finder. Dont expect a revelation when you look through the viewfinder, it is larger but not a whole world of difference.The D700 does of course crop DX lenses automatically or can be set manually to crop or not but unlike the D3, the D700 finder doesn’t mask the crop so it’s like having tunnel vision with a DX lens!
The D3/D300/D700 also bring battery performance back to the levels of the D70, a huge improvement here over the D200/D80. The D700 has a better info screen implementation than the D300 and is genuinely useful at last and of course you’ll love the screen on any of these cams.
I think you should weigh up whether you would prefer to invest in glass now and get the D300 instead, there’s almost nothing in practical everyday shooting that the D700 can do that my D300 couldn’t at base iso. For sports/wildlife, the D300 would definitely be my choice, for everything else the D700 with the right lenses gives me just enough in terms of image quality over the D300 that it felt right to upgrade and I dont regret it.
oh thanks for all that info. well as i said i plan on getting 14-24 24-70 70-200 lens this year, with the camara atm i have the kit 18-135 10-20 50 1.8 and a macro 60mm, only lens. im not a fan of the 18-135 but it has server me well and will do so for the next month or so.
as for getting a D300 before the D700 i dont think that is a Viable option because mabe next year when i would want to get the camara i proly wouldnt be able to afford it with teh current situation of our Planet. so D700 all teh way :).
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