Thanks, Andrew. Appreciate your first hand camera reports.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / September 6, 2007 CE, at 2:03 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
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> As I mentioned - just got back from the Nikon pre-launch lunch (very
> nice thank you).
> Picked up the D3 with 14-24mm f2.8 AF-S lens on it (which means it
> defaulted automatically from FX to DX format, went out on the hotel
> balcony and ripped off some shots of the passing proletariat below at
> which point, the Oz marketing manager asked - "You put a card in that
> didn't you?!" with a slight hint of betrayal (mine) in his voice.
> "Sorry, it's a pre-production model so I'll have to ask you to format
> it." Damn. I shoulda been more covert. It's a big lump anybut and
> covered in buttons - it's got an 'OK' button but I couldn't find the
> 'Any' button.
> N are making truly extravagant claims about the high ISO performance
> - time will tell but the 11fps in DX is scary (someone had left it on
> CH - continuous, high) and the histograms looked sweet - nicely
> kicked to the right in 'P' mode. The D300 seems chunkier than the
> D200 but it was wearing the big, new, fat Macro lens so I may have
> been fooled. Impressive beast but. They are keeping the D200 alive at
> a price point of about 2/3rds the D300 I suspect. Same for the D2x.
> One interesting comment was that N regard this all as 'old school'
> and are planning something special. Hmmmm.
> The P5100 was there too but still no RAW mode. Foolish.
> After misbehaving, I shut up, ate my lunch and developed a nice red
> wine headache. They seem to have forgiven me.
> Andrew Fildes
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