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Rumors had been circulating for months of a new full frame camera, and I was eager to find out if they were true. As I walked down Park Avenue with a co-worker, I felt anxious. It was an incredibly muggy August afternoon in New York City. I'll never forget the day Nikon first unveiled the D750 to us in a press meeting. The D750 is the only Full-frame camera in Nikon's line that offers an articulating LCD, which I used to frame this image.
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Still, I couldn't help but feel like I was ready for an upgrade, the same upgrade I had been yearning for when I initially settled on the D700, due to lack of options.
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Despite the rubber skin starting to peel a bit, the camera still functioned like new. I had been using the D700 aggressively for freelance work, and put more than a half million actuations on it. So my options were pretty much limited to a camera that appeared to be near the end of its product life.įast forward two and half years to the late Summer of 2014. It's also worth mentioning that the D600 had not been announced yet. I was upgrading from a Nikon D300, and the D800 felt too much like a studio camera: the Raw files were far larger than I needed, or was used to, the burst not fast enough (the D300 with a grip gave me 8 fps), and the price, way more than I could afford to pay. But after field testing the camera (I was working at Popular Photography at the time), I decided that is was simply not the body for me. I had also strongly considered the D800 at the time, which had been announced a few weeks prior. While the camera was technically a current model, it had been on the market, at the time of my purchase, for nearly four years. In the Winter of 2012 I purchased a lightly used Nikon D700 for a trip I was planning in the Spring, to document Egypt's first-ever freely-held presidential elections. 51-point AF system performs well, even in very dark or low contrast shooting environments.Flip out 3.2" LCD lets me get those high and low angles I so crave for skateboard photography.Robust build-quality, while remaining fairly light-weight for a Full-frame DSLR.24MP Full-frame sensor offers excellent high ISO performance and great dynamic range.It's about investing in a system, expectations, and the joy of photography.
This isn't about Nikon vs Canon or Sony or mirrorless vs DSLR. This is less the story of a editor professing his favorite piece of gear from the year, and more the story of a photographer and system owner holding out several years for the perfect camera.
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