{"id":142,"date":"2008-07-25T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=183"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:52:15","slug":"nikon-d700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/nikon-d700\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon D700 : preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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hands-on preview: Nikon D700<\/h1>\n

Nikon D700 ..–<\/span>.<\/span><\/strong> 1\/125th @ f3.5 @ 32oo ISO.
\n<\/span>[ click on the image to see a 100% crop ]<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nikon D700<\/a> camera (B&H) and Nikon SB-900 speedlight<\/a> (B&H), were released today, to my great anticipation. I expected to see D3 quality images in a body about the size of the D300, and accessibly priced for what it delivers.<\/p>\n

This evening I drove in to Manhattan\u00a0so I could\u00a0roam around Times Square to test the low-light capabilities of this camera. This after all is\u00a0what the D3 is renowned for, and the D700 promises to deliver the same image quality.\u00a0 Outside Toys’R’Us, there was a line of Star Wars fans waiting for a pre-release party of the new Star Wars movie to start, and a few of them graciously posed for me – most impressively of all, a Darth Maul look-alike.\u00a0 (I composed the photograph so that the ferris-wheel inside the shop radiates outward behind him to make for an even more striking portrait.)<\/p>\n

The image you see there was taken with only the available light in Times Square.\u00a0 And fair enough, the place is flooded at night with light from the numerous billboards – but I was able to get this image at 1\/125th @ f3.5 .. which are ‘easy’ settings to use, but this was at an incredible 3200 ISO.\u00a0 Click on the image to see a 100% crop of the area around his eyes to see the high-ISO noise performance.\u00a0 This is from the straight-out-of-camera JPG.\u00a0 I am impressed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

hands-on preview: Nikon D700 Nikon D700 ..–. 1\/125th @ f3.5 @ 32oo ISO. [ click on the image to see a 100% crop ] The Nikon D700 camera (B&H) and Nikon SB-900 speedlight (B&H), were released today, to my great anticipation. I expected to see D3 quality images in a body about the size of Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[13527,13523,13529,13528,1310,13524,2238,13525,13521,1483,1120,9175,2453,13526,13522,13530,4495],"class_list":{"0":"post-142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-equipment-review","8":"category-nikon-dslr","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50264,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/50264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}