Nikon Range explained?

sdb123 said:
Have you ruled out the D700 then?
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Well now that you mention it, adding a grip/battery does make it quite an attractive option. The price gap to D3 does come down though and for the extra (£900ish), the D3 lasts twice as long and has the chunkier feel and weather sealing and I think is well worth the extra.

Nikon have spoilt us here with too many choices!!
 
If you are going to shoot with the grip all the time, get the D3. The price difference when you add the grip, EL-4A ninja battery, bloody expensive EL-4A charger and ridiculously expensive stupid tiny plastic flap cover is pretty much the same as buying a D3!! Check it out...

And the D3 supposedly has even better AF and is definitely better built weather seal wise.

The D3 is a stonking camera and no mistake!
 
desantnik said:
If you are going to shoot with the grip all the time, get the D3. The price difference when you add the grip, EL-4A ninja battery, bloody expensive EL-4A charger and ridiculously expensive stupid tiny plastic flap cover is pretty much the same as buying a D3!! Check it out...

And the D3 supposedly has even better AF and is definitely better built weather seal wise.

The D3 is a stonking camera and no mistake!
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Add to this the 100% viewfinder, the voice memo function, the read lcd display and the D3 really is a better option than buying a D700, grip and accessories. Having said that, in the D700's favour, it does have the pop-up flash (really handy for Nikon's CLS) and I find that the additional controller you get with the grip easier to use in portrait format than stretching for the
single on one the D3.
 
Yes, I forgot about the 100% viewfinder... looking through the D700 everything seems so vast you can forget its not 100%.
 
The D3 won!

Felt like I was buying two Canon cameras in one Nikon - a Canon 5D and 1DMK3 :)

Just love the FF and high fps and saves me lugging the two Canon bodies around.

Hopefully this will do me now for many years as 12MP is more than adequate for anything I would enlarge.

Already picked up a 17-35 F2.8 and I'll add one or two more lenses.

Thanks everyone for the valuable input - very helpful.

Andy
 
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