Pedalman said:Yes a D800 battery grip at nearly £400 for a plastic box with a couple of switches and buttons, WHAT A RIP OFF !! , you can buy a complete consumer DSLR for that price.
Id rather spend the £379 on four extra bateries and change them more often.
development costs,tooling it all adds up
it isnt plastic its Magnesium alloy
http://www.ferra.ru/ru/digiphoto/review/Nikon-D800-preview/print/
Some high ISO shots there. No mention of level of noise reduction. They are not bad, though.
Yes , I have two of them for my D300 300s BUT MY SON DOESN'T KNOW the *****,he's been on my computer, I left it on logged on to the forum and went out for a while and im wondering what all these replies are doing coming in to my email when i got back...... apologies guys he has had a clip round the lug hole, he enjoys winding me up with my Nikons and others who use them . Ive been getting jip from him since the new D800 was announced he likes a good pointless dig.
O'Really? Bearing in mind there's not much change from the grips going all the way back to the D200... Its a high-margin product, just like the 2.8 lenses, whereas the D800 is undoubtably a very low margin. Nothing wrong with that approach of course, they have to make money somehow (and Nikon Stock is up 18% or something in a day...).
I'll put money on LinkDelight (etc) having a perfectly good version with a pair of batteries for under £100 delivered within a few months...
Considering it doesn't add extra FPS and so half the reason for having a grip on previous cameras has gone, its a very dubious accessory at the moment...
They look pretty poor to me, at 100%. They aren't the best photos in the world but it raises a few concerns about the high ISO capability. We need to see more samples really.
& so was virtually everybody else which is why Sigma are chopping it down to ~£2k...I was wondering why a Sigma 15MP DLSR costs £5500
no need to appologise whatsoever at least he is taking a interest
heidfirst said:& so was virtually everybody else which is why Sigma are chopping it down to ~£2k...
ok so what would people recommend as an upgrade path into FF now from a D300?
D700
D800
second hand D3 or D3s
In the next 3 months or so with overtime and a bonus on the way i could scrape together about 3.5 or 4k. A couple of my lenses i think will be ok on a FF body. Id be doing more studio work this year and loads of landscape stuff.
ok so what would people recommend as an upgrade path into FF now from a D300?
D700
D800
second hand D3 or D3s
In the next 3 months or so with overtime and a bonus on the way i could scrape together about 3.5 or 4k. A couple of my lenses i think will be ok on a FF body. Id be doing more studio work this year and loads of landscape stuff.
a D800S? Yes, clearly needed - unless there are plans for a fast shutter D400 for Sports/Birders.
And can we please stop the "F8 Diffraction Limit" stuff, its been shot down all over the internet already -the pixel density of the D800 is almost exactly the same as the D7000...
O'Really? Bearing in mind there's not much change from the grips going all the way back to the D200... Its a high-margin product, just like the 2.8 lenses, whereas the D800 is undoubtably a very low margin. Nothing wrong with that approach of course, they have to make money somehow (and Nikon Stock is up 18% or something in a day...).
I'll put money on LinkDelight (etc) having a perfectly good version with a pair of batteries for under £100 delivered within a few months...
Considering it doesn't add extra FPS and so half the reason for having a grip on previous cameras has gone, its a very dubious accessory at the moment...
& so was virtually everybody else which is why Sigma are chopping it down to ~£2k...
Seriously though, on paper it looks the bomb. Looking at ISO6400 examples it looks just as good as the D700 Ive been using since 2008.
ok so what would people recommend as an upgrade path into FF now from a D300?
D700
D800
second hand D3 or D3s
In the next 3 months or so with overtime and a bonus on the way i could scrape together about 3.5 or 4k. A couple of my lenses i think will be ok on a FF body. Id be doing more studio work this year and loads of landscape stuff.
1. Technically I do own one, it just hasn't reached me yet, although I'm hoping that by the end of next week this will be rectified.
I've just been told by Calumet that my D4 won't be arriving until March 15th. Feller said the delay was due to 'unprecedented global demand' but, as a NPS prioritized one, mine would still be amongst the first... anyone still expecting theirs next week?
D800's battery grip does add fps - you can only get 6fps in DX format with one.
Nikon Rumo(u)rs have said its down to a firmware bug and all shipments worldwide have been held. Meh.
Nikon Rumo(u)rs have said its down to a firmware bug and all shipments worldwide have been held. Meh.
gramps said:Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
Why is everyone so obsessed with fps on here? Unless you're a serious fast action sports photographer, or red carpet pit snapper, (and how many on here actually are), 4fps is more than enough surely?
I was out today doing fly fishing casting sequences and the DX crop mode on my D2x (8fps) wasn't enough to do a full sequence, especially on the faster flicks as the line increases speed. Have had the same with tournament casting. 4fp just wouldn't cut it.....
Why is everyone so obsessed with fps on here? Unless you're a serious fast action sports photographer, or red carpet pit snapper, (and how many on here actually are), 4fps is more than enough surely?
Flashman said:One of my standard portrait sets is to get kids to hold hands and run through the woods towards the camera whilst I pull in the 70-200 to keep them a decent size in the frame... machine gunning and focus tracking all the way. More frames per second = more usable hits = better sales
Martyn... said:You could switch it to video Pat, and just pick out the stills that you want ... or have I not quite grasped the technology correctly
Dangleman said:Ok, fly fishing and machine gunning kids in the woods (if only!) aside, what else
Martyn... said:You could switch it to video Pat, and just pick out the stills that you want ... or have I not quite grasped the technology correctly