Review on 📷 Nikon D700 12.1MP Full-Frame CMOS DSLR Camera with 3.0-Inch LCD (Body Only) - (OLD MODEL) by Athenasby Whitney

I've been trying for years to experience the feeling I've had shooting Ektachrome and Kodachrome. Especially printing on Ilford Pearl paper. Somehow my D200 and D300 (not to mention my $1,000,995) always failed and I tried to compensate by shooting HDR exposures. It was a real joke to shoot nine pictures at a time during the photo tours I've been on. The first few days after buying this camera I was shooting with a group on the Chicago River. This was the bridge's final lift to allow people to get their boats out of Lake Michigan to safety for the winter. I didn't bother reading the manual other than how to assign a function key to use the virtual horizon feature, which I thought was great. Here I am standing in the shadows under a bridge trying to figure out how to choose an exposure for HDR. Unlike the D200 or D300, there is no bracket button on the camera. I give up and just start shooting. I'm under a rising bridge, shooting a sailboat against the background of a bright sky and the building of the tribune. I took a few hundred shots in a few hours, following the boats along the river, and when I returned home I wasn't expecting anything. I found out later that I had remapped the Fn key from a curly brace to a virtual horizon. Miraculously, I was able to pull out the shadows under the bridge, the clouds, the Chicago Tribune sign on the building, and even the antennas of the John Hancock Building in the distance. This is all with a wide-angle Nikkor 14-24 lens, so I didn't zoom anywhere, let alone half a mile. I just can't say enough good things about the latitude and detail of this camera. I'll still use parentheses, but won't get into that. On a more practical level, I didn't want to buy this camera. I always thought there was a new model coming out so I'd wait. But I injured my right hand very badly which will probably take another 6 months to heal and I figured that increasing the ISO along with some fast lenses would at least allow me to shoot again. I am satisfied, I set the ISO to 3200 in automatic mode, went to shoot and these shots with a little noise reduction are fine. With my D200 the limit was around 400, with my D300 it's really 800. The first shot I took with this camera was in my apartment and I couldn't believe that the black light stand in front of the black subwoofer was still clear . Note that low light shots with ISOs above 3200 will show noise. Lots of noise in low light. Also, on a practical level, I was able to use all of my D300's accessories, with the exception of the right-angle viewfinder and the diopter adapter. In addition, this model has become cheaper. I bought this and a Nikkor 14-24 combo from Revain for around 3650, the local equivalent was another 1250 and I can only imagine the next model will cost more money without an immediate discount. [.] I would take it. camera for what it does now and don't wait to pay a lot more for the next model. In fact, this might be the last camera I'll buy for a few years. As for me, I've gone back 30 years and I like it.