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Re:Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-ol... by hef19898 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:45PM (#32252801)
It's my dad's back-up body, I switched his D200 back im exchange and got a D300 with, IIRC a shuttet count of 30k-ish, as a back-up. Service was 90 bucks, sensor and mirror cleaning, firmware update, general service, AF and exposure config, laser callibration of the mirrors and prisms. Rather decent IMHO, I have yet to get it back, looking forward to it!

Battery life if great, during a full week in Iceland I charged the two batteries once, and propably wouod have made without charging. Resultion is, at least for me, only proplem when it comes to cropping. Not cropping in changing the format or to cut of the corners (the D700 viewer covers only 95% of the picture which can lead to some stuff at the borders of teh image you don't want there) but rather croppong out stuff like bird to enlarge them. Then, and only then, the 12 MP are an issue. Otherwise a lower resolution forces you sinpmy take better pictures in the first place. And for online use 12 MP are plenty anyway, I don't plan to print a house wall with my photos. And lower resolution means smaller files, which a benefit in itself.

I love that camera, if simply because it gave me back the joy of photography.

Re:Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-ol... by perardi on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:39PM (#32253674)
I had to go back and dig up a D700 photo.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi/8836490860/in/album-72...

Yup. Image quality holds up!

…OK, that’s not entirely fair. It’s more that the image quality of the absurdly expensive lens I rented for that weekend holds up.

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/camera-le...

Re:Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-ol... by hef19898 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:47PM (#32253802)
Putting 1k bucks in a lense is such better investment than putting the same in a camera body when it comes to image quality. Another benefit of a low resolution body, lenses don't need to be as absurdly good as they have to be for 24/66 MP plus bodies abd are correspondingly cheaper. Which leaves more money to travel to all those nice places to take nice pictures and enjoy yourself. Not that I would say no to Z9 with corresponding glass if someone gave it to me!
Re:Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-ol... by someweirdperson on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:36PM (#32256538)
> Putting 1k bucks in a lense [...]

The one linked by the parent is $5.5k.

Re:Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-ol... by hef19898 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:20AM (#32260749)
I saw that... 1k is a lens I look at sometimes twice per day... Well chirstmas is coming, slowly but surely...