Please keep in mind that this Nikon D800 vs D700 comparison is purely based. Looks like starting from. I have an old Speedtron 2400ws system for my film. That would be the D3 series, D700, and possibly the D300 (not sure). In my case I have D700.Nikon D8. 00: Worth the upgrade? On paper there are two factors to the D8. For some, these are enough already to warrant a purchase of Nikon. Others, however, may be erring on the side of caution at the camera. But it lacks any sort of video whatsoever and has only a 1. Having said that, there are no problems with the resolution of the D7. It's a brilliant low- light camera and more than up to the task of being used as a professional piece of kit. Having lived with one for more than a week, we feel we have an answer. How does it feel? Build. The D7. 00 is put together rather brilliantly. Its magnesium- alloy weather- sealed body is really tough and has withstood several years of press trips, being bashed about in our bag. The odd downpour hasn. Once you pick it up, its 9. D7. 00. There is also a significant difference in the way that every button and dial feels on the camera. Rather than the mushy buttons of the D7. Nikon uses a satisfying click for every keypress. Even things like the on/off switch have been beefed- up, presumably to withstand years of hard use. It is very noticeable and gives the D8.
Nikon. Take, for example, the AF- type selector tool on the back of the D7. No longer can you do this without going into a menu on the D8. A dedicated record button on the top of the camera is placed too near the shutter key, making switching accidentally to video commonplace - although you can change its function using the camera. All in all, we like how the controls feel on the D8. D7. 00. Operation. Nikon has been careful to update the menu workings of the D8. This means that when we picked up the camera for the first time, we were instantly able to navigate to all of our usual settings. The D7. 00 suffered from a slightly 1. This has been updated for the D7. Again, it just feels more premium. The screen has also taken a rather significant jump, going from 3 inches to 3. Not a major increase in size, we know, but it appears to be far brighter with better viewing angles and much more saturated colours. It still suffers from viewing problems in bright sunlight but nowhere near as badly as the D7. The included connectivity options with the D8. D7. 00 out of the water. First up, being able to send video to an external display live using micro- HDMI is very cool. Second, we love that you can record to both SD card and Compact Flash, telling the camera to do things such as send video to SD and stills to CF. It just makes the process of managing images after shooting much easier to handle. Once we had built up decent muscle memory of the new control layout, it felt just as easy to use as the D7. Then again, going back to our older Nikon for a day didn't feel unpleasant, leaving us feeling that, on this basis alone, the design rethink for the D8. That is if you already own a full- frame Nikon DSLR. Whatever anyone tells you, 1. D8. 00 like the D7. These are top of the range prosumer or even professional- grade cameras. You should be able to take a picture in virtually any situation and be pleased enough with the results that you could sell it to someone. For us, the D7. 00 has passed this test a long time ago. Its high ISO performance is stunning, full 1. RAW images look beautiful and the frame buffer is, most of the time, more than enough for the most kinds of photography. Not once have we found ourselves thinking: . Most who will be thinking about buying this camera are the most demanding kind of photographers. They want to be able to shoot in virtually complete darkness with no noise, or blow up images big enough to cover the side of a bus, all the while keeping things wrapped up in a compact and lightweight package. A lot of them may also be considering the 5. D MK III, which is a hugely powerful camera. As such in testing the D8. In the light. Using a combination of lenses, an 8. D8. 00 with us everywhere. First up was a trip to the park with the Pocket- lint pooch in order to get some daytime shots and test out the autofocus on the dog running. The full- frame sensors on the D8. D7. 00 are quite beautiful things. They create a much broader dynamic range while also letting you use a lens to its full capabilities. Take our 3. 5mm f. DX crop, giving us more room to play with at a lower f- stop. This is very useful indeed, as wide- angle lenses tend to have higher apertures. For video it also makes a big difference, particularly when using our 8. DX sensor but looks great at f. The first difference we noticed between the D7. D8. 00 when out shooting was when adjusting ISO. It starts at 1. 00 on the D8. Not a major bugbear we know, but it does mean that in bright light you know you are gleaming the maximum amount of detail from the sensor on the D8. With the 1. 4- 2. D8. 00 felt significantly lighter, not causing us the usual backache we get from half an hour of carrying that glass beast around on a D7. We also noticed - particularly when attempting landscape shots - that the viewfinder was a lot brighter and colours appeared more saturated. It's also 1. 00 per cent coverage as opposed to the D7. This makes a big difference to those who like to compose everything in the finder, which is the majority of professional photographers. The more shooting we did, the more we noticed how much of an improvement the viewfinder was. It began to annoy us when holding our eyes up to the D7. The same could be said for the screen, which in this freakishly good weather we are having, just couldn. And that question needs to be attacked in two parts. First, in bright light and second in low light, as the latter situation could pose all sorts of issues for so many pixels. Looking back at snaps shot in the park with both the D7. D8. 00, the resolution jump really didn. This became such an irritation in fact that we ditched shooting RAW altogether and switched to JPEG. Because of this, shooting to the full potential of the D8. That or you could just blow a ton of cash on 3. GB SD and CF cards. So for street shooting, at least in the daytime, it felt like the D7. The cosmetic improvements were definitely nice, but ultimately our D7. In the dark. This is the part of the comparison we were most excited about. If the D7. 00 could hold up again the D8. In order to make things fair as possible, we opted to test the two cameras indoors. It meant we could control the lighting situation a lot better and in theory, push the sensors to their limits. One of the problems the D8. The higher the resolution, the harder it is for a sensor to cope with high ISO. So if the D8. 00 can match the D7. It would also make the camera one of the best- performing high- resolution sensors we have seen. So, D7. 00 and D8. Pocket- lint pooch in various situations. The results were fairly incredible from both cameras. We wanted to make sure things were as sharp as possible, so the 5. Shot at F2, on both cameras maximum ISO settings, detail retained in every image was great. The extra resolution however on the D8. RAW, just gave us that extra space to play with noise cleanup later on in Photoshop. The result was a win for the D8. Win aside, we still don't feel the difference between the 7. Unless you are the sort of photographer who shoots everything about 6. ISO, we just don't see it as a necessary. Then again, if you want the best possible image quality, at any ISO setting, then the D8. This is quite frankly incredible, given the cameras 3. Nothing can even come close to that kind of performance at that resolution. Then again we are yet to properly test the 2. Canon 5. D MK III, which may find the perfect balance between resolution and ISO performance. Video. It wouldn't be fair talking about the D8. The D7. 00 has no means to record moving images whatsoever, so this isn't so much a straight versus, just more something to muse over should you be wanting to make a purchase. In a word, the video on the D8. Check out our full review if you want to find out more about its capabilities. We absolutely love being able to switch to video and just grab a minute or two of footage. Colours look incredible without any tweaking or editing and the ability to select which card video saves to is brilliant. Low- light performance is great and things like shutter wobble are kept to a minimum. If you are looking for a way to shoot video on your DSLR and already own a decent body of Nikon lenses, then the D8. So which to buy? The D7. We had been hanging on for many months until the D8. Most Nikon fans have been put through quite a serious amount of gear jealousy as the Canon 5. D MK II's video became so commonplace. So the D8. 00 had to impress technically in order to keep Nikon fans happy. And it most definitely does. The sensor is brilliant, video looks incredible, the finder and screen are a big improvement. The problem is, that if you already own a D7. Even if you were to flog your D7. Which brings us on to our final part of the verdict. If you have an eye for shooting video and already own a few Nikon lenses, the D8. In fact its so good, we would choose it over the more expensive D3s, simply because its more lightweight. So should you buy one? Its a yes if you want video and a no if you are stills focused and a D7. If you're rich enough to have a spare . Nikon D8. 00 review. Which would you purchase? Let us know in the comments below ..
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