A friend of mine rented a D3x this weekend for a photo shoot. She took it along on a wine tasting trip a number of us went on, and I had a chance to play around with it.
The photos that came out of this thing were absolutely incredible. That said, it's a beast of a camera and you probably need a Sherpa or two to help you carry around the camera and lenses.
It's a 24.4MP full-frame camera. Coupled with a 50mm f/1.4 lens, this thing practically had night vision. It also absolutely nailed the focus on photos and the images were tack sharp.
The really interesting thing about 24.4MP is your ability to crop the image and still maintain high enough resolution for multiple uses. That was the most impressive thing, in my opinion. You could take a group photo of 10 people, then zoom into any one of them, and there was enough resolution and fidelity for a flawless 8 x 10 portrait. Incredible!
The other impressive thing was the image quality at ISO 6400. Properly exposed, you could barely see any grain! Seriously, that's insane.
This is totally going on my "WANT-but-probably-not-ever-own" list. Anyone have $9,000 laying around?
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I played with a Nikon D3x this weekend! Holy awesome.
I was actually thinking exactly the same sort of thing about the Leica S2 I had a brief fondle of not so long ago.
It's also in exactly the same list for me, primarily as even I would never dream of spending that much on a camera and also on account of it's size - which is, I believe, actually less than the D3x. I know I will still never use something along the likes of a 1DS again, however sophisticated I want my photography to be - which also rules out I think most of the full-frame cameras, although I've got some in my want list at the moment as I'm trying to decide what I actually want. But I don't anticipate buying a full frame to be honest.
It's also in exactly the same list for me, primarily as even I would never dream of spending that much on a camera and also on account of it's size - which is, I believe, actually less than the D3x. I know I will still never use something along the likes of a 1DS again, however sophisticated I want my photography to be - which also rules out I think most of the full-frame cameras, although I've got some in my want list at the moment as I'm trying to decide what I actually want. But I don't anticipate buying a full frame to be honest.
