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The D3 is Nikon's first full frame shooting DSLR camera. The camera has many high points like the great design. The camera has an improved design to fit with the times. The grip on this camera is great, dropping this camera isn't an option especially with how big it is. The display you get previews of all your pictures on is 3-inches. This camera has 12.1 megapixels, the camera shoots at 9 frames per second at the full 12 megapixels and 11 frames per second at about 5 megapixels. This camera doesn't comes with a flip up flash but this is camera is meant for professionals. The vertical grip on the body of this camera is a great feature but it does add weight to the camera, which without a lens weighs 2.7 pounds.
The resolution that this camera brings too the table isn't touching its competition the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III and Sony's 24 megapixel DSLR camera. With the resolution difference aside this camera is still a good camera with great features. This camera (body only) costs $4,999. The price is steep but this camera isn't for someone who isn't a professional or enthusiast.
Here are the specs on the D3 followed by pictures:
- 6.3 inches wide, 6.2 inches tall, and 3.5 inches deep
- Body Weighs 2.7 pounds
- The body is made of Magnessium Alloy
- 12.1 Megapixels for resolution
- 12,870,000 total pixels
- 12,100,000 pixels effective sensor resolution
- CMOS optical sensor
- 1.0 field of view crop factor
- ISO 240-6400 light sensitivity
- Special effects feature: Vivid,
Neutral and
Monochrome
- The max shutter speed is 1/8000 of a second
- The minimum shutter speed is 30 seconds
- The X-Sync speed is 1/250 of a second
- The exposures modes featured: buld, manual, automatic, program, I-TTL program flash, aperture-priority, shutter-priority
- Exposure range is: EV 0-20
- Exposure composition: 5 EV range, in 1, 1/2 or 1/3 EV steps
- White balance bracketing
- White balance of custom, presets and automatic
- The still image formats accepted are: JPEG, TIFF and NEF(Raw)
- Supports Compactflash and Microdrive memory
- Photos saved can be saved in these dimensions: 4256 x 2832
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3552 x 2832
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3184 x 2120
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2784 x 1848
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2656 x 2120
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2128 x 1416
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2080 x 1384
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1776 x 1416
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1392 x 920
- TTL contrast and phase detection autofocus with 51 focus points
- Nikon F lens system mounting
- 2-20 seconds self timer delay
- Hot Shoe flash terminal
- Optical - Fixed eye-level pentaprism viewfinder with 100% field coverage and magnification of 0.7x
- Viewfinder is Autofocus frame
- 3 inch LCD-TFT active matrix display, which shows 920,000 pixels
- (1)HDMI output, (1) Composite video out, (1) USB, (1) Remote Control
- Nikon EN-EL4a battery, supports (1) Li-ion rechargeable battery
- Minimum operating temperature 32 degrees farenheit
- Maximum operating temperature 104 degrees farenheit
Read the full specs here.
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