{"id":466,"date":"2008-11-28T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-11-29T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T09:54:11","slug":"nikon-d3x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Nikon D3x"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given the leaks and teasers that have appeared previously there were few surprises in the description of the Nikon D3x in the Nikon Pro<\/em> magazine that came through many of our doors this morning.<\/p>\n

What is clear is that is probably isn’t a camera I will particularly want. Nikon describe this 24.5Mp ‘FX’ model as “designed with medium format photographic applications in mind<\/em>” and it has the fairly conservative ISO range of 100-1600, though with boost to ISO 6400.<\/p>\n

Its 75Mb files would for most of us most of the time be an embarrassment of riches, although its ability to shoot these at 5 fps seems pretty astounding.\u00a0 It does have what seems to be a very useful DX mode, which gives 10Mp files.<\/p>\n

Otherwise it seems very similar to the D3. Another big heavy camera that’s already overkill in various respects. The price is yet to be announced – rumoured at around $5,500, enough to put it out of my league, but still likely to make some other manufacturers wince.\u00a0 And even if you’d like one for Christmas you will be out of luck. More chance if your birthday is in February at a guess.<\/p>\n

Nikon’s recommendation for your Christmas list is the D90<\/em>, a camera that in some respects, certainly according to the DxOMarks,<\/a> outguns cameras including the Canon EOS 5D<\/em> and Nikon D300<\/em>, despite selling (body only) for under \u00a3600. And there is a rather nice sounding new DX 18-105 f3.5-5.6 VR\u00a0 lens to go with it. Compared to the D3x it seems pretty compact which for me is a big point in its favour, although it still isn’t a small camera.<\/p>\n

Along with many photographers (though perhaps not a huge section of the market) what I am still waiting for is a true digital successor to the Leica M series. Leica’s own contender, the M8, has proved to be a whole series of disappointments – not just for me but for many other users – hardly addressed by their second edition and in several ways Epson’s rather curious earlier attempt (I always feel the need to don racing goggles and jump into a sports car when I look at its top plate)\u00a0 is still the best in this area, one that Leica seems to have relinquished for their S series. But both – for better or worse –\u00a0 were ‘retro’ cameras, firmly founded in the 1950s, and what I would love to see is their 21st century equivalent – including the kind of low-light capabilities we now see in the D700\/D3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the leaks and teasers that have appeared previously there were few surprises in the description of the Nikon D3x in the Nikon Pro magazine that came through many of our doors this morning. What is clear is that is probably isn’t a camera I will particularly want. Nikon describe this 24.5Mp ‘FX’ model as … Continue reading Nikon D3x<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}