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this with the 28-300 might be my ideal travel combination and would replace my D90 with the 18-200 which worked really good during the last years. i am mostly shooting while traveling and i want a one lens solution for that. the 24-70 is a great lens. however, it is too short for me and it is a heavy pro lens.
 
I could be all wet, but following the stream of rumored features, I'd wager the cost of such a body would hover closer to $2K.
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This might very well be an excellent travel camera allowing a happy merger of my D300 and my D7000.Hopefully this will be sealed a bit better than my D7000 so that I finally may be able to get some of the lowlight indoor outdoor exposures that at present require flash. Hopefully this body will be without for an aging shooter the weight entailed with "Full Frame Nikons to date.Long live a younger "Diet" D700."Now I can finally buy some delicious primes if my budget holds.Best Alan The Desert USA New Mexico
 
Specwise it looked the perfect alternative of the D800 and the D4, but in sports I need a reliable AF. Again, it looks like it is just the D7000 AF system. That's a step back for me I do not wish to make.
 
my guess is that the sealing will be pretty similar to the one of the D7000. as i shoot a lot of landscapes i am interested in the DR results. hope it'll perform comparable to the D800 in that area.
 
If the specs are true, I would rather have this than the D800. Less diffraction issues, smaller file sizes. The 24-120 would be a great match for the camera.
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Mike
 
mike: did you by any chance saw any (good) comparisons between the 24-120 and the 28-300. the reviews about the 28-300 were very good (considering it is a travel lens) and i'd like to know if there is any visible difference between these two.

thx
tyler
 
lock said:
Specwise it looked the perfect alternative of the D800 and the D4, but in sports I need a reliable AF. Again, it looks like it is just the D7000 AF system. That's a step back for me I do not wish to make.
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Maybe if there were bugs in the D7000 they will have fixed them. Reports say the D7000 problems (if the heresay isreliable) came from the mirror mechanism. Presumably a FX camera will have a different mirror mechanism.
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Bob
 
no built in AF motor was the one thing I really didn't get about the earlier rumor. This now makes more sense.
 
There were indeed problems with certain iterations of the D7000 as 'some" were over enthusiastically oiled in their mirror chamber which occasionally splashed small oil droplets on the sensor. I had one and it was quickly fixed by replacing the mirror chamber. That said I found the sensor very satisfactory, the auto focus less so. I never had rain leakage, but and this is subjective, it did not feel as weather resistant as my D300 which I dragged from Beijing to Chile.I do hope they make the mode dial a bit less subject to movement when it brushes against the camera bag. Both the D300 and the D7000 struggled in lowlight and above 1600 ISO . Since I am not a sports shooter but someone interested in travel and street photography, fps is not as important as focus accuracy and single point center focus has served me well. The dream of a quality full frame sensor on a "durable" Nikon body at a reasonable price that allows both DX and FX lens choice is a "siren call " I can not ignore.I do expect a larger "DR' and more" Raw Headroom." Best to all Alan New Mexico USA
 
bobn2 said:
NikonMike said:
If the specs are true, I would rather have this than the D800. Less diffraction issues.
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A 24MP D600 will have no advantage over the D800 with respect to diffraction, actually in reality a slight disadvantage.
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Bob
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According to Thom Hogan with the D800 diffraction starts affecting the image at F8 and above. Maybe he is wrong, but from reading that it would seem with a 24mp sensor, it wouldn't impact unitil say F11 or higher, which is where I'm usually at with my landscape shooting for maximum depth of field.
 
tyler_dx said:
mike: did you by any chance saw any (good) comparisons between the 24-120 and the 28-300. the reviews about the 28-300 were very good (considering it is a travel lens) and i'd like to know if there is any visible difference between these two.

thx
tyler
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Mike

Tyler, I've only read reviews on the 24-120, but have seen some posts about the 28-300 and they are mostly positive. But in my opinion for what it's worth the lens really means very little when it comes to the quality of an image. I have a friend that shoots with a D7000 and just a cheap kit lens, and her pictures are stunning, which says a lot. The 28-300 would be a very versatile lens for travel. I might miss that 4mm on the wide end though.
 
Looking like a D600 is in my future. Nikon builds it I buy it. I predict it will be built in Thailand not Japan.
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I don't care how big the sensor is. 39 AF points and 5 FPS is not an upgrade. Guess sports is no longer something that Nikon will address for the advanced user or semi-pro.
 
The battery will make the difference in your camera decision? Never heard anyone say that before. I’m guessing you want both of your cameras to use the same battery?
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Even if I'd largely shoot it in 1.2x crop mode. But I can't buy an FX backup camera until I know which battery the new top of line DX camera uses.
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Jim
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