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Nikon D3 - Full Frame or Half?
Nikon D3 - Full Frame or Half?
It has taken years but Nikon is finally on the verge of unveiling the D3, which will be the company's first Full frame digital SLR. Obviously, after such a long wait, expectations will be high, and rightly so too after the benchmark set by competitions. Still, let's give Nikon where credit is due for taking the time to develop an affordable Full frame DSLR to replace the aging D2.
The imminent arrival of the D3 is an exciting one and of particular interest because not only is Nikon releasing its first ever Full frame DSLR but it is also taking a huge leap forward with its professional series of cameras and lenses. Ushering in a new era for Nikon is a new CMOS sensor, a new image processing system called EXPEED and a whole new range of lenses specially engineered for Full frame photography. All these, coming together for the first time in the D3 as a launch platform, are the main components of Nikon's latest FX format.
The new FX format essentially replicates the image size of the traditional 35mm film: 36.9mm x 23.9mm, but that doesn't mean the DX format is no longer applicable. On the contrary, the D3 is flexible in that it allows you to either shoot continuously for up to 9 frames a second at full 12.1-megapixel FX Format or at an astonishing 11 frames per second in DX format (24mm x 16mm, 5.1-megapixel only). Like the D300, the D3 is also fully compliant with the next generation of high speed cards, giving it a recording speed of up to 35MB per second or four times faster than the recording speed of the D2XS.
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