Nikon have announced their new Flagship camera The Nikon D4 which is a 16mp full frame camera with massive iso ability 50-200,000iso, 11fps, tested up to 400,000shutter actuations, Double exposure hdr effect in one shot, faster auto focus, top notch video with 30fps in full hd and 60 in 720hd as well as 25 and 50 in Pal settings, its also go full hd crop modes and a whole bunch of other stuff making it super duper mega awesome.
Its price is going to be around £5000. most likely £4800.
- Which to some is half a years wages,
- To others its the profit from 10 weddings (after you have minused the tax and costs)
- For me that would be 1 years worth of youtube earnings.
- or the same as 2 years of my half of the mortgage payments.
- Or a Canon 5d mark 2 and all its exotic prime lenses.
For the same price I could buy:
a 5.5litre Mercedes AMG and still have spare cash for a Nikon d5100 (
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a Porsche Boxter,
or all the lighting kit I could ever buy and lessons to go with.
The cost of the camera is not an issue for the people who are buying it but thats just a little idea of the value of it in terms of my own costs.
For me what this camera is good for is getting a bit of an idea of what will be the future for the lower price bracket cameras such as the Nikon D700 (admittedly still not a cheap camera but, in comparison, far more affordable) The D700 had the same sensor as the Nikon D3, just in a smaller, less robust, lighter, camera body. However at the moment the rumours for the successor to the D700 is something with a 32MP sensor… not sure I nor my computer nor harddrives care for that too much.
What is greatly amusing though is on the forums, the blogs and the vlogs is the arguments and anger from some people either bashing it, saying its not as good as the canon 1d mark x or that they think it is better than any Canon. Its the wars between Canon and Nikon fanboys that is so strange to me. (I specifically say fan Boys as I doubt any female photographer or for that matter PHOTOGRAPHER is as small minded as the camera Tech geeks) I also think that people who think that this camera will help them make amazing photos are clearly the people who are not making amazing photos already and no matter what camera they have their photos will still suck.
But hey! Tell me what you think!
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