Digital BW, The Print

Bob,
The D700 may seem like a dupe of the D3 but it's really not.. and if you slide the D3s into the picture the distance really gets greater.. A new version of the D700 is in the works and we should see it near the end of the year I'm hearing.. Theirs a few issues they still need to work thru.. one of which is the industry support of the new xqd card.. The only one that is offering it is Sony so far ..the others aren't stepping up... Canon has not included it in their line up as yet.. 

jimbo  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Frost 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: The megapixel issue - "again" and other issues


    
  From: "C D Tobie
  > Yes, but by going for the high rez design, the other resolutions are 
  > compromised in the sensitivity they could have had; they can still profit 
  > from the pixel averaging in terms of color, but the dynamic range, 
  > sensitivity, and low noise that could have been gained by larger sensors 
  > is pretty much lost; a bit of noise reduction may be gained in 
  > downsampling, but the other advantages are simply lost. Thats part of the 
  > compromise, the same way that the compromise of making it a color camera 
  > loses detail that could have been gained for B&W if it were a B&W-only 
  > camera.

  I agree, but the camera that has all that is the D4. It would have been very 
  silly of Nikon to duplicate the D4 in a smaller body at half the price, and 
  bring it out at the same time as the D4!

  The D700 that duplicated the D3 in a smaller body at half the price was 
  brought out a year AFTER the D3, so it did not reduce the initial sales of 
  the D3.

  So we might get a smaller, cheaper D4 in a years time.

  Bob Frost




  

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