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Nikon Announces D700, SB-900, Tilt-Shift Lenses

published by walter rowe on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 4:09pm

Hopefully the Nikon shooters among us saw the announcements from Nikon today:

The tilt-shift lenses may not be of much interest to music photographers (although I could think of some interesting artistic promo shot applications), but the new D700 (at US$3000) and SB-900 will be.

Walter Rowe - Rowe Images
Professional Photographer
Columbia, Maryland - USA
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Submitted by stacey_the_musi... on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:00am.

If only we had the funds to purchase this camera...sigh.... Maybe the next model.

Submitted by walter rowe on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:54am.

If you have never read their articles, the guys over at Luminous Landscape have some really great information. They review a lot of equipment - cameras of every format, printers of every size, all kinds of accessories, and lots more. They wrote up a little analysis for Nikon's D700 announcement. It is worth a read as they provide some comparative analysis relative to the D300, D3 and the Canon 5D (and highly anticipated 5D update).

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/700-thoughts.shtml

Walter Rowe - Rowe Images
Professional Photographer
Columbia, Maryland - USA

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Submitted by stacey_the_musi... on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 12:34pm.

Great read! Since I didn't upgrade to the d200 or d300, I would rather spend an extra $1200 on the d700. This is all in theory because I don't have any money allocated for an upgrade at this point.