Bjorn Reviews the Nikon D3
Bjorn’s cool- he’s extremely technical and I really enjoy hearing what he has to say:
I’d rank the finder of the D3 a little below the F5 in its perceived quality, mainly because of its eye-point relief. …
Many people have voiced concern about the lack of a protective cover for this LCD. However, being made of tempered glass it has high resistance to impact and scratching. Thus, even a deliberate attempt to mark the surface by a sharp knife was unsuccessful. You will get a load of fingerprints and nose grease covering its surface after a while of course, but all that grime can easily be swept off by a soft tissue or similar. …
I wasn’t entirely impressed with the auto W/B or dedicated Incandescent W/B under incandescent lights, even when using AFS lenses. As this kind of light is very deficient in blue, there are obvious limits to what can be achieved in terms of proper white-balancing anyway. The end user should be aware of that basic fact, although many aren’t. [ed: What's it with the white balance? Incadescent never, ever, ever, is right for me with the D2x...]…
Dust seems to cling more tenaciously to the imager surface on the D3 than on the D2X. …
The handling of non-CPU lenses by D3 is a step backwards compared to what the D2-class cameras could offer. What lets the D3 down here is that you have only 9 slots to fill in with lens specific data, and the data in practice has to be entered in advance. The ability to set up the lens on the fly as you could do with the D2-series no longer exists and this makes the entire system much less flexible. …
A potentially useful feature is the Metering fine-tune option (Custom menu b6). This allows you to relocate the “0″ reference point for any of the metering systems off the D3. I have availed myself of this feature since the D2-series appeared, and set the reference point for Matrix metering to -1/6 EV. Please note that this relocation of the zero point will not show up anywhere else, so in this respect is is a kind of hidden global adjustment.
December 31st, 2007 at 18:18
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January 3rd, 2008 at 19:42
[matt: I've edited this to remove the email address- I'm trying to NOT put it into text so that the spammers don't get it any quicker than they have to. Also- the comment. Also- the previous comment is a 'trackback' that simply says that the other site referenced you- and appears to not be total spam.]
The response to Bjorn’s review is just spam for this other web site. There is NO ORIGINAL CONTENT at all in this response, which just leads you back eventually to Bjorn’s original post. I suggest your remove this comment and ban the poster as a spammer.
Phil Burton (you know me since I’ve emailed you as [see the email address on the front page]. Look up your email archive.