#Nikon d600 liveview full

I make no secret of the fact that I’m a huge BMW fan. It’s an excellent machine, supplanting low-end medium format gear, but it also requires the rest of the support (lenses, processing workflow) to go along with it.Ĭar lust. If you don’t, and you buy it, you might be surprised that it doesn’t quite deliver the same pixel-level crispness as the D700 or D3. If you need the level of image quality this camera can deliver, you’ll know it, and you won’t need to ask me. Over the last few months, I’ve received no end of emails from prospective upgraders asking if the D800 was the camera for them my answer is a resounding no. (My long term review of the D700 is here.) This review will be written from the point of view of a long-term D700 (100,000+ frames on two bodies) and D800E (20,000 frames between the D800 and D800E) user, with comparisons and references to both. I still use it on reportage assignments or where the client doesn’t require 36MP and the associated enormous files. Even today, the D700 remains an excellent camera – mine has over 70,000 frames under its belt and hasn’t missed a beat.

#Nikon d600 liveview full

The D700 and D3 were turning points in Nikon’s history: first full frame, and first time in recent memory the noise advantage shifted decisively away from Canon. At this point, however, the technology inside the D700 was five years old – an age in the digital world, and possibly the oldest sensor architecture still purchasable new (with the exception of the Leica M9, whose photosite design was inherited from the 2006 M8).

The older model continued in the lineup together with the higher spec (and higher priced) D800 pair. I think two questions were on the mind of the Nikon enthusiasts and pros after the launch of the D800 ( full review here) and D800E (which curiously, I’ve never actually reviewed): firstly, was this the D700 replacement, and why the enormous resolution? The D800 snuck in at the same price point as the D700 back in 2008 subsequent erosion of the D700 saw prices fall to the US$2200 level or thereabouts, at least for street prices in this part of the world. Subjectively, it’s lighter but you don’t really notice in use it feels about the same weight because the square handgrip design requires you to exert more pinky pressure, which makes the whole thing feel a bit heavier than it is… Smaller than the D800, but you’ve got to put them side by side to see it. This is not to say that it’s a bad camera far, far from it. Not quite what you expected me to say in the first paragraph, I bet. The camera itself breaks almost zero new ground technically – it doesn’t push boundaries in any way. Although the Nikon D600 falls squarely into the last category, I think photographers in the world were pleased when it finally broke official cover. Some cameras launch with a huge amount of anticipation and fanfare, some are surprises from far left field, and some are simply such poorly kept secrets that the manufacturer might as well just have skipped the announcement.