Will you buy a D400 if it comes out?

I will if the sensor is improved a lot. But I won't be swayed by improved video.
By improved sensor it would have to be much better the 7000. FishHawk

I just bought my D300s in August so even if it comes out next year I would have to pass unless you can shoot avatar-movie like images with it

FishHawk said:

I will if the sensor is improved a lot. But I won't be swayed by improved video.
By improved sensor it would have to be much better the 7000. FishHawk

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Waiting to see, probably will buy.
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Probably yes, but all depends on when it becomes available and what's the advantage over the D300s, as well as it depends on the price. I am not sure I'll be first in line for it though, maybe I'll wait until other people debug the camera for me.

Maybe after it's out a while, I gave up beta testing for Nikon several years ago. It would have to be a leap over my D300 in areas such as AF speed and accuracy, higher ISO while keeping a good base ISO (200 or less). It would also have to have improved DR. I'm not sure I want or need more MP so if it's too much I'll pass (16MP is about all I'd be interested in in DX).

I am NOT interested in video, so if that is the biggest leap over the D300 I'll use what I have and wait for something else that meets the improvements that will be useful to me.
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Just yesterday got " brand new" D300s,means that D400 is not my intresses for a while. Still have D80 and D40. Maybe it takes time to learn practices with D300s after D80 (and D40).

I grew tired of spending money. Tried of chasing the latest. I have two D200s and one D300. They produce images that I am very happy with.

Perhaps in five years when the D400(?) sells for $475 used I might sping for one. As for now I have all the cameras (3) and lenses (5) I want and need. I'm content.

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Yes, definitely buying, eager for D400 to come out. Want much to upgrade from D5000 for wildlife photography.

I'm very happy with my D300 in most shooting occasions. And my sports shooting may change more towards daylight photography. The expected improved high iso performance therefore may become less important. Thus, other things should be improved to make me decide to buy it. But first I will let the eager ones find out the problems, and make them drop the price.

In the mean while, I intend to use the money for lenses. There is however one very important thing Nikon should understand. I need to know if the D400 will be Dx or not. It's a decisive factor in buying lenses. If the D400 is not going to be DX, it probably means I will buy no more lenses for Nikon.

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IIRC, about a year back (maybe more) Nikon Corporate stated that they were dedicated to keeping the DX format alive.

I have no doubt the D400 will be DX. Beyond that, I'm not sure they will have a body with advanced feature sets like the D300 (D400) in DX for the high end prosumer bodies. I am sure that DX will continue at the lower price point/entry/amateur level for the foreseeable future.

Personally, I dislike the change Nikon made to their non-pro lenses regarding the position change of the focus and zoom rings. I'm used to the conventional way and the flip-flop bugs me. That alone keeps me from most of the DX lenses (and many FX lenses, too!)

I have a decent set of glass as of now, so I'm content for the most part shooting what I have. Should my shooting subject interests change requiring different gear, I'll adapt at the time.
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I don't think so. I'm happy with the D300s except I want considerably better high ISO performance and shallower depth of field. I'm waiting for a D800 but I won't buy it after it's around 6 months in the market.

Yes, dependent upon it's stellar review and use my D300s as it's backup and move my D80 down the pecking order.

I have a mix of DX and FF lenses so I will also look at the D700 upgrade but I am satisfied with the DX format...ah choices for next year.

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Just bought the D300s a week or so ago and I'm very happy with it. Unless the D400 is some giant quantum leap I wouldn't consider it - might wait a year or so after release and buy used. I think the consensus would be that it will use the D7000 sensor with improved high iso performance, better DR, better video, higher FPS rate etc. but aside from that I can't see them adding a lot of other new features or improvements - basically a D7000 with a pro body and pro controls. Since I already chose the D300s over the D7000, I can't see jumping to the D400 any time soon after its release. The price will definitely be under $2000 - all IMHO

Chris

If it has major improvement in High ISO w/o sacrificing low ISO. I would consider it. That would be helpful for some of the low-light gym and church sanctuary photography I do from time to time. Also, expanded DR would be a big factor that would have be consider it as well.

But I'm getting along great with a D300 and 2.8 lenses, so no hurry for me. But, if there were some amazing advancement in those two areas (or low light focusing) I would consider upgrading.

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I am still very happy with my D200. I shoot almost exclusively at base ISO and I seriously doubt I would ever see a difference in a print of any size I would ever make.

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I was going to create a new thread about D400. I will put it here instead
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Looks like D7000 has the best DR among all cameras (including FF) as of now.
This is consistent with Imaging-resource test and DXOmark test. I believe
this helps when you try to pull information from shadow area. The noise
performance at low ISO is better than D300 sensor. This is one of my complaint
about D300.

Here's an example of bringing shadow details from D300 (This was ISO 200 or 400)



D7000 have very clean ISO 100 and noise graph is very gradual as it

should be. I use only up to ISO 800 on D300. I could use up to 1200. But ISO auto

doesn't allow me to set intermediate ISO. Looks like I can use 1600 with this new sensor.

That gives me 1 full stop in effect (even though the actual difference is not one full stop)

The ISO sensitivity and noise is pretty similar to 1D IV (which has the best noise performance

for a crop camera (same pixel density as D300). If Nikon put actual pro AF on D400 body that will
be the best wildlife/sports camera (considering the reach with crop factor)

The history says Nikon will improve this sensor with next release. May be one more stop of ISO??
I'm sure I'm dreaming

FishHawk said:

I will if the sensor is improved a lot. But I won't be swayed by improved video.
By improved sensor it would have to be much better the 7000. FishHawk

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Looks like D7000 has the best DR among all cameras (including FF) as of now.
This is consistent with Imaging-resource test and DXOmark test. I believe
this helps when you try to pull information from shadow area. The noise
performance at low ISO is better than D300 sensor. This is one of my complaint
about D300.

Here's an example of bringing shadow details from D300 (This was ISO 200 or 400)



D7000 have very clean ISO 100 and noise graph is very gradual as it

should be. I use only up to ISO 800 on D300. I could use up to 1200. But ISO auto

doesn't allow me to set intermediate ISO. Looks like I can use 1600 with this new sensor.

That gives me 1 full stop in effect (even though the actual difference is not one full stop)

The ISO sensitivity and noise is pretty similar to 1D IV (which has the best noise performance

for a crop camera (same pixel density as D300). If Nikon put actual pro AF on D400 body that will
be the best wildlife/sports camera (considering the reach with crop factor)

The history says Nikon will improve this sensor with next release. May be one more stop of ISO??
I'm sure I'm dreaming
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Jemini Joseph

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No. Just purchased D300s after D70s died. Had the D70s survived another year, I would probably have waited for the D400. Now it will be another five years at least with the D300s.

My attention is now turned to replacing three computers that worked very fast with Capture 4 and D70s NEF files and now craws and crashes with ViewNX and D300s files
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