![]() One thing we didn't all agree on was the importance of its 35mm frame size. It means business and it isn't shy about it. At 2.73 pounds without a lens, it's not going to go everywhere with you even if it won't fit in a drawer. ![]() We all agreed that the one thing we did not like about the D3 is its weight. If you've shot with a Nikon digital SLR before, you'll feel right at home. It's how your mind works, after all.Īnd then everything else you need is right at your fingertips, from ISO and White Balance settings to shooting modes and Aperture and Shutter speed dials. You begin to wonder why every camera can't be so responsive. But that light touch grows on you instantly. ![]() If you don't immediately release the Shutter button, you've got a series of images. Touch the Shutter button and the camera fires before you've finished pushing it down. So what, we wondered, is the big deal about the D3?Ī few of us had actually held a D3 in our hands and the same answer occurred to each of us: It's just the most responsive camera we've ever used. We'd been shooting with D300s all day and found them to be up to every task we tried. In-camera Lateral Chromatic Aberration Correction, optic-by-optic autofocus fine-tuning, a wide ISO range of 200 to 6,400, plus extension to Lo-1 (100) and Hi-2 (25,600!), really round out the package.Īs if to underscore how Nikon has split the difference between the Canon 1Ds and 1D Mark III offerings, the price of the Nikon D3 digital SLR is $4,999.95.ĭuring a break at my adventure at Dogpatch Studios, the inevitable question was raised. And the 920,000 pixel, 3-inch LCD rivals the Nikon D3's own optical viewfinder for clarity both offer 100% viewfinder coverage. A new 51-point AF system includes 15 cross-type sensors and a wide range of modes to take best advantage of them. The Nikon D3's new Scene Recognition System merges data from the AF system with data from the 1,005-point metering system for greater accuracy and better tracking. The Nikon D3 has 14-bit A/D conversion, just like the D300 that was introduced at the same time, plus the option of stepping back into 12-bit A/D conversion if you desire. While they've surrounded Canon's models at the low end, they're still wisely splitting the difference at the pro end, and the resulting cameras are more versatile than the competition.īut resolution and frame rate aren't the only important aspects to this new professional digital SLR camera. It's an interesting and effective strategy. And it's not a full 10 frames per second, like the 1D Mark III, it's 9 but you can get to 11 frames per second if you don't need full resolution and focusing tracking. It's not 16 or 21.1 megapixels like the Canon 1Ds line, it's 12.1. As they did with the D2x, Nikon struck a very fine balance with the D3. The big news was that Canon finally had a rival in the full-35mm space. Not only did it make their old Nikon glass fully usable again, but it's the fastest digital SLR on the market - with some limitations. Pro photographers last year got a new option for full-frame digital photography: the Nikon D3 digital SLR camera. By Shawn Barnett, Dave Etchells, Siegfried Weidelich, and Mike Pasini
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