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Nikon D3

Discussion

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Posted by Daniel McKeehan on December 16, 2007 at 7:03 PM
Anyone purchased the new D3 from Nikon yet? Just curious as to the image quality compared tot he D2X, any help would be nice
Posted by David Prichard on December 16, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Daniel,

There are a variety of opinions and threads on Juergen Specht's Nikon discussion list.

http://www.juergenspecht.com/lists/d1scussion/
Posted by Brad Hill on December 17, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Hi Daniell,

I've had mine since the beginning of December. It's as advertised - amazingly low noise at high ISO's (I now think of ISO 800 to 1600 the way I used to think of ISO 200 to 400 on my D2Xs) and dramatically improved autofocus.

I have an ongoing series of reports on my field testing results of the camera on my blog on my website. Just go here (first entry on the D3 was on 7 December):

http://www.naturalart.ca/voice/blog.html.

Cheers...

Brad
Posted by Filemon Lopez on December 18, 2007 at 5:15 AM
Daniel,
I just returned from a trip to Costa Rica and took my new D3 along. I photographed in the rain/cloud forests under very tough conditions and the camera performed beautifully. A bit heavy, but worth the weight given the images I was able to capture. Filemon