I'm also very interested in the D600, Michael. The reviews are very encouraging. For a full frame camera, it is reasonably priced. The much bigger expense would be the FX lenses, which are superb in quality but quite expensive.
@soboy5@michaelelliott Holy Schnikes! :) Reasonable price! I did have to check myself and remind myself it is all relative, and I agree when comparing apples to apples. But my eyes bulged and I almost choked on my lunch when I went to look at the reasonable price tag. :D Sounds like a great full frame, but I'll need an extra job or two before I choose to afford that one. Maybe in a few years. ;)
@geocacheking - hahaha "reasonably priced" is all relative. Yes it is very expensive but compared to the latest full frame Canons it is a lot less. It is crazy how we get with photography equipment - its all ridiculously expensive.
@michaelelliott So true. I was a bit skeptical about shelling out all this money for my wee D3100 at the time but wanting something that would be able to keep up with the growing family and capture what I wanted. Since then I have re-fallen in love with photography and now the growing price tags of my wish list (as or more expensive as my 3100) seems more reasonable to me. :)
I've got it, and so far it's impressive! Clarity and sharpness are superb, controls very much like my D7000, so it's been an easy transition. I am pleased with my purchase, and look forward to mastering its ability to capture birds on the fly, my specialty. Good luck!
This is my initial review of the Nikon D600: Nikon D600 FX upgrade from Nikon D90 DX: Part 1
I'm getting to know the camera a little more, then I'll post my 2nd part. One thing that's really bugging me is that Nikon clustered all the autofocus points in the middle of the frame. I just started using those a few months ago to manually choose my focal point for each shot. Even in full auto mode, they come no where near the rule of thirds, let alone anywhere near a more dramatic composition.
Fortunately, there is a *lot* of customization that can be done with the buttons, so I'm figuring out a new method. Still, this is a really lame shortcoming seemingly designed solely for DX mode compatibility, which is pretty much a no-go, due to plain old physics.
Getting a RAW image out of the D600 is still a chore, but it can be done if you shuttle the image through ViewNX 2 before importing the resulting TIFF into Lightroom or Photoshop. Here are my Nikon D600 photos so far.
@michaelelliott I didn't realize there was a D600 about to come out or I probably would have just gotten the D600. Love the photos. I shoot in Raw in the files are HUGE and slow to process but I'm glad I went for it.
@cameronknowlton - Focus points clustered in the middle of the frame was my biggest complaint with my old D3. This is the same problem with the D800 and the D4.
I'd say the new ACR will be out in a week. Usually Nikon is a lot slower between the announcement of a new camera and getting the camera shipped, which gives adobe a lot more time to release the new ACR.
@sudweeks, I'm running the final release candidate ACR 7.2, crickets with the Nikon D600. sure would be nice to have a full raw workflow in time for zombies, but I'm not holding my breath. at least I have lots of latitude with the flesh tones ;)
@kwind, don't forget that you *can* switch your size to Medium; that will drop your pixel count down to something reasonable, about 20.3mp on your D800. I did that for a birthday party that I shot on the weekend, you know the kind: snapshots. no reason to go full resolution for another shot of a birthday cake. when I go for the beauty portrait or fine art shot, I bump back to RAW/Large.
@cameronknowlton - The problem with shooting in a lower megapixel is you can't shoot in raw. The Canon 5D Mark III has RAW capture at lower megapixel, but none of the Nikon's do. The D800 really would have benefited from that.
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Nikon D600 FX upgrade from Nikon D90 DX: Part 1
I'm getting to know the camera a little more, then I'll post my 2nd part. One thing that's really bugging me is that Nikon clustered all the autofocus points in the middle of the frame. I just started using those a few months ago to manually choose my focal point for each shot. Even in full auto mode, they come no where near the rule of thirds, let alone anywhere near a more dramatic composition.
Fortunately, there is a *lot* of customization that can be done with the buttons, so I'm figuring out a new method. Still, this is a really lame shortcoming seemingly designed solely for DX mode compatibility, which is pretty much a no-go, due to plain old physics.
I'd say the new ACR will be out in a week. Usually Nikon is a lot slower between the announcement of a new camera and getting the camera shipped, which gives adobe a lot more time to release the new ACR.