Nikon: ‘D700? What D700?’ The Leaked Magazine Shots Are Real?!
Well, I’ve been incommunicado for the last days taking care of life and I missed this, so thanks for David for pointing it out:
But these pictures of Nikon’s supposed midrange full-frame dSLR, the D700, is so convincing we had to make a call to the Japanese company.
As usual, we were told no comments for now, but that Nikon “will say more when the date draws near”. The spokesperson did volunteer that the pictures were taken at the agency where the brochures were printed.
Photographybay reported that this 12.1-megapixel shooter will have a full-frame (36 x 23.9mm) CMOS sensor, 51 autofocus points, expanded ISO sensitivity of 25,600 like the D3, and accept CompactFlash storage media. The camera body is said to be cast from magnesium alloy, and pricing is US$2,999 for the body.
Nikon refusing to say anything, hmmm. Maybe we could make that into a series of hysterical comedies… a mute company the likes to play a harp, a mustachioed F-body, an FM with an accent, and a completely unfunny D1HS named Zeppo.
June 23rd, 2008 at 00:08
I’ve previously posted that the D700 brochure looks real to me, but I just noticed something in the body copy that mentions the AF-51 point: there’s a widow: at the fourth line from the bottom it says “Nikon system’” at the end of the line and the “s” (as “system’s) on the next line. This is a violation of all proper printing conventions.
Someone else posted on another site that it’s unusual for Nikon to left justify the text – it’s usually full justified.
This is either really lousy typographic design or it’s a fake. The problem is that there’s no home printer that I know of that can print something that large, which is why I originally thought it had to be real. I suppose if someone worked in an office with a large format printer, this could be accomplished to look like it was coming off of a printing press.
June 23rd, 2008 at 17:52
???
It could easily be a discarded proof.
June 23rd, 2008 at 23:04
If it’s from a design studio, yes. If it’s from a printing plant, no. Printing plants do not set type or do layout anymore. They’re sent Quark, In-Design, Photoshop or Illustrator files.
June 26th, 2008 at 17:09
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July 6th, 2008 at 07:44
Nikon D700…
Bei der Nikon D700 handelt es sich um eine vollformatkamera die im sich im Mittelklasse-Bereich bewegt. sie bietet fast das gleiche Leistungsspektrum wie Nikon´s Spitzenmodell D3. Die D700 verfügt über einen CMOS-Sensor der Fotos mit 12,1 Megapixel …