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I wouldn't hold your breath ...Any time soon we will see a D700X or however they will call it?
I guess that where the Sony comes in with its Zeiss glass. I have heard the same comments from a friend regarding Nikkors and D3x, he ended up with some new Zeiss ZF glass in thed but is bitching about mf and like you he feels that its a step backwards too. This is were he draws the line though and wont consider having to manually stop down converted Leica lenses.The D3x really only comes into its own with the best glass and a tripod and I have not yet got into Zeiss and Leica R; whatever the merits of putting an 80mm Summilux on the camera, going back to a manual diaphragm does seem a retrograde step.
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At this point I'd write any price adjustments off as currency-related rather than competition related. These days the USD moves up and down 5% more or less on a weekly basis. You'd almost think it was weather-related.B&H just dropped the D3X price to $7,395. USD.
Which to me means under $7K can't be far off. If some retailer gets it to $6,500 or so then we'll see more of this camera I think.
That may or may not be true ... but what is true is how relevant it is in relationship to other selections under consideration. If the others don't also drop in price the same %, then currency flux is irrelevant to the buyer.At this point I'd write any price adjustments off as currency-related rather than competition related. These days the USD moves up and down 5% more or less on a weekly basis. You'd almost think it was weather-related.
A D3X has a nice number of MPs but cannot replace a MF camera due to several reasons, which are commonly well known and do not need to be repeated here again.I switched to D3x from Canon 5D. And the D3x is my first Nikon. The reason I did this was to get a camera for landscapes (mostly) that would replace my large format Linhof. I knew it would not be fully equal replacement so I decided to make a gallery size print (60*90 cm) from D3x's file (which I downloaded from the Internet). When I get this print I was amazed with the quality - and I hadn't done any PP on that file.
I'm not going to sell my Linhof - it's still a great camera that helps to make very good prints! But there are lots of moments when it's very difficult to use LF camera even when I'm prepared for landscape photography.
I could buy 1DsIII but its images were just ... not good enough. Same with 5DII.
Now, I'm really glad I made that move.As I said - the camera is a joy!
Nice shots Andree. In #1 and #2, how do you feel about how the camera/lens handled the overexposed area just behind the model? From here it looks pretty good, though #2 seems about 1 stop more exposed than #1, with more blown highlights as a result.
I'm going to keep bugging you about using f/2 on that lens from time to time, hope you don't mind.