They’re Finally Official - Nikon D700 FF SLR, SB-900, PC Lenses. No D3x
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As far as I can tell, there isn’t anything that we didn’t know about in the last few days, do we know the price in USD yet though? I’m kind of wondering where this fits relative to the D3. If it’s only about $1000 less, then its placement would appear to be as simply a smaller D3 with less battery (btw- which battery is it using? I’ll have to look).
With respect to the PC/E (tilt/shift but not at the same time) lenses, they were already previously announced, iirc.
The SB-900 is relatively new news and after a quick read of its specs, it looks like it’s about the same but detects FX vs DX, KNOWS if there’s a colored filter over the flash (!), talks to the body more, allows firmware to be upgraded via the body. I can’t tell yet if the menus are at all changed / made simpler or easier, I don’t see any called-out changes to the CLS, no RF, and wtf can’t I use a Nikon camera body battery for the flash? They appear to have made it more energy efficient so that it’ll recharge with 4 batteries in the time it took the SB-800 to recharge with 5, but with even a smaller body battery, we could have shot forever…
I guess we’ll have to wait for Photokina for primes (oh God, please? I’m starting to think this is hopeless… time for more Zeiss maybe) and the D3.
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July 1st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Yeah, but I’m wondering since it only takes 4 batteries whether it will last for as many shots.