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Have you been waiting patiently,and postponing buying Nikon D700 for an year or more?
Well, no more excuse for going outside and creating a great portraits and landscape photographs. Nikon D800 is finally here, and it is here to stay for at least three or more years.The new king of semi-pro cameras features a Nikon FX format CMOS image sensor with an astonishing 36.3 million effective pixels, a new EXPEED 3 image processing engine which allow even more accurate color reproduction and higher speed auto focusing. Yes, a new D800 has a movie recording feature and allow you to record a full HD movies. As a wedding photographer, for me one of the most important feature is the light sensitivity, and as I expected for a 36.3 pixels sensor,sensitivity would not be a new factor. So, ISO is from 100 to 6400, the same in the upper range as my favorite D700.Together with D800 Nikon released another camera, Nikon D800E.What is the difference?Not much,Nikon D800E has abilities to disable low pass filter.The low pass IR filter with anti-reflection coating is an important component sitting between the lens elements and the COMS, which is normally made with lithium niobate. What it does is to spread a single optical point into multiple points. While it effectively reduce aliasing and also moire effect caused by repeating patterns such as certain fabric, there is a tradeoff of sharpness which lots of landscape photographers need.  Well, would I buy it? Sure, I believe, this is the greatest deal on the market at this moment, and this camera is a specially designed for wedding and landscape photographers, as I am.I would use it as a back up camera for weddings, and as a main camera for landscape photography. For weddings I wouldn’t give up my favorite D700 as I believe this 12 million pixels camera would give me a better image quality at low light. I just got Nikon 50 mm 1.4 lens and I believe this $400 jewel will give me much more in a long run compare to any new fancy feature which will be create from all time competitors as Nikon or Canon are.My dear friends, new cameras with their features are great but not the main tool which make one photograph successful. Don’t forget that some of the greatest photographs of our century were created with cameras almost nobody is using today. Don’t forget that the camera is just another tool leading us to the great photograph,which can touch viewer’s heart. So,if you don’t have $3000 extra cash today,don’t worry and even don’t bother searching internet for the latest cameras.Just grab the camera you have and go outside and look the world with your photographer’s eyes.And remember, nobody can see the world as you see it. So,from that point is very easy, just press the button!
Happy clicking everyone!
P.S. Here there is a link to official Nikon website,where you can found more about Nikon D800. http://www.nikondigitutor.com/eng/d800/index.html

Since long time I have been a big fan of David Ziser and his Digital Pro Talk Blog. I believe this blog is one of the best blogs for wedding and portrait photographers. I love the fact, that in his blog he has a lots of video tutorials from great photographers,with very different approach and style. Here it is a great tutorial from his blog,which I found very useful.

Photoshop Fashion Secrets w-Suzette Allen from David Ziser on Vimeo.

Hi guys,

yesterday I checked for updates for new Nikon cameras,like D4,D400 and eventual D800. There is a rumors that Sony is ready with it’s new full frame A920 camera. Nikon not confirms, but also not denying that use Sony’s sensor for it’s cameras. So,my expectations are that probably one of Nikon high end models will have the same sensor. I think this won’t be Nikon D4 but most likely D4X. I believe Nikon will take it easy with pixel count of its D4 as a tradition to keep it with low noise and faster speed. Most likely D4 will be 16-18 Mp camera with bunch of new features, like Usable ISO 51200, 11fps (20fps with live view, 30fps with APS-C crop), Flexible LCD monitor, Built-in WiFi, 51 point all-cross AF point, 2,016-segment RGB meter.With two words, it will be camera for sprt photographers, shooting every day for news papers and magazines. Ok, what 32 MP means to me? Not much, it is simple marketing tool. Years ago I did a print with size 24×36 inches from my Nikon D7 camera, and the result was brilliant, as you need at least double diagonal distance to watch the image. For my wedding photography, the biggest prints my clients ever asked me are framed images in 16×20 frame. For this frame I use 11×14 image size. For  canvas prints I have to go with size 16×20 which is really no much than 11×14 print quality since canvas are more like oil paintings and nobody will count hair on them. In technical aspect pixel count, expressed as Megapixels, is simply multiplying the number of horizontal pixels by the number of vertical pixels.It only takes a 40% increase in linear dimensions to double the pixel count! Doubling pixel count only increases the real, linear resolution by 40%, which is pretty much invisible. Image clarity is more dependent on how you shot the photo than on the number of megapixels. A clean shot from a 6MP camera is much better than a slightly out-of focus shot from a $8,000 24 MP camera. Image quality depends much more of how do you shoot, how do you compose,what camera lens do you use, than how many MP is your camera. Cropping is probably the most important factor,of all of them.For example if you don’t think careful before pressing the button and after this you have to crop 40%, you just decreased your camera’s Mp from 24 to 12.Another important factor is lens quality.When Nikon 18-200 Vr was introduced, it was great lens to be used with 12Mp camera.Now for example using this lens with Nikon D7000 makes it a mediocre lens. As there are not many professional lenses for DX format, pixel count would be the last factor to consider when buying camera from this class.Yes, you can use pro FX lenses, but would you place 70-200 Vr on your neck and hike the whole day under the sun? At the moment I have two DSLR  bodies, D80 and D700. This year I spent four months in Mexico and one month in Europe, and I used my D700 no more than 5% of the time.I love the small size and light body of D80 with 18-200VR lens. It is very old camera with a lot’s of noise, and really mediocre image quality compare to D700, but nobody asked me, what camera I used when I show images to friends. I use my D700 when I am travel with car and when I am making money (wedding events).Now I want to convert mu D80 body to infrared camera, and buy another DX body for travel photography. Should I order Nikon D7000 or D90. I was thinking a bit for D5100 but missing off camera flash control and  manual focusing with screw drive auto-focus lenses made me forget about it. D90 is a bargain price right now, even it is light years behind the excellent D7000. On other hand D7000 was released end of 2010 and I still need to sign on waiting list.

So, what would be HOT in new generation Nikon bodies? I believe AF speed, frames per second and build in WiFi will be important factor for sport photographers. Higher MP sensors will be a factor to be considered, for landscapes photographers. AF speed and lower noise will be important factor for wedding photographers.I believe since  D7000 has 2,016-segment RGB meter, this will be a standard camera future from now on(Canon still use B&W meter).Video is hot right now, and most likely all new cameras will have this future too. Would I run and try to sell my D700? No,at least for next couple of years,since I expect D800 to be released mid of 2012 and be available end of 2012, I still have many weddings to go. Would I order Nikon D7000, most likely, since my D80 looks a dinosaur and  i would to do more creative IR images, this will give my trusted Nikon many more years life. I expect to continue with my travel around the globe, so probably Nikon D7000 is going to be very welcome in my camera bag.

According to Quesabesde the Nikon D700 replacement is postponed till October 2011 and the Nikon D4 is expected to be announced in early 2012. This delay was caused by the earthquake in Japan.

In the past few weeks I have been receiving conflicting reports on a potential delay for the D800 and I am not convinced that this is the case. I still believe there will be a major Nikon announcement in late August. The Nikon mirrorless solution is probably delayed based on previous statements from Nikon representatives indicating a potential March/April announcement.