Nikon D3
For better or for worse, the top of the Nikon line doesn’t come close to the 22 megapixels of the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III. In fact, Nikon’s sensor is of a similar size, and the designers opted for 12 megapixels to allow for larger individual sensors. The result is image quality highly competitive with any other digital SLR. This image quality helped Nikon’s D3 take the cover of American Photo’s Camera of the Year issue for 2008. In fact, the D3 surpasses film technology at higher ISOs, providing very good quality even at an astronomical ISO 12,800.
As a top-of-the-pro-line model, the D3 features superb build, screen, viewfinder, and interface; downsides to this camera are few and minor. The D3 does lack a dust removal system and, when a DX-format lens is used, digital crop results in 5 megapixel images. The relatively large body is intended for professionals, and would seem bulky to casual snapshot-takers. Accepts CompactFlash memory cards only.
My Nikon D3 lets me do things I’ve never been able to do, and makes it fast and easy. You don’t need a review: unlike any other camera I can recall, just talk to anyone who owns the D3 and you’ll hear praise gushing like no other camera.
The Nikon D3 has got to be the top choice for anyone wanting high quality, rapid-fire image capture, or extremely low light photography without flash, who is not otherwise wedded to the Canon system
For me the arrival of the D3 is the final nail in the coffin for “35mm” silver-halide reflex cameras
The D3 is simply a state of the art, high-performance pro camera, and few of us who’ve been fortunate enough to get our hands on one would argue that it isn’t worth every penny of that lofty price tag
You can read the detailed spec sheet in forensic detail if you like, but the short version is if you think there’s a DSLR feature worth having, the Nikon D3 has it
an awesome piece of kit that has no doubt sent a lot of other camera manufacturers running back to their drawing boards
My Nikon D3 lets me do things I’ve never been able to do, and makes it fast and easy. You don’t need a review: unlike any other camera I can recall, just talk to anyone who owns the D3 and you’ll hear praise gushing like no other camera.
Nikon introduced the FX format, specified to be 23.9 x 36 mm, within a hair’s width of the 24 x 36 mm format we associate to 35 mm film-based cameras of days just gone
Until then the majority of my work had been medium and large format film ,and since starting with digital capture have owned the Kodak 760, Fuji S2/3, Nikon D2x, Canon 1D, 1Ds, 1D MKIII, 1D MK IIN, Leaf Aptus 22, and the Phase P-30/P-30 Plus. My studios now manage over 60 terabytes of stored data.
The big news is that Canon finally has a rival in the full-35mm space. It’s been a long time coming. As they did with the D2x, Nikon struck a very fine balance with the D3.