Digital SLR Blog

Dev Hardware has reviewed the Nikon D700 and the publication found the DSLR extremely appealing. Apart from a comprehensive feature set and advance features like D-Lighting system, the camera also excelled when it came to image quality. The well thought out interface and controls won’t be daunting to an amateur photographer and the magnesium alloy body ensures that the camera remains protected from wear and tear.

Olivier Giroux, the owner of the Mutable Conclusions 2.0 blog has  found a way to capture video from the Nikon D700 by utilizing the Live View feature. The video quality is 30% below 480p resolution however the feed travels over the wire at 100fp.

The newly releases firmware update 1.01 for the Nikon D700 makes the following improvements:

- When Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on was set to Off in Continuous-servo AF, the lens drive moved gradually without achieving focus.  This issue has been resolved.
- When the Speedlight SB-800 was mounted on the camera with flash mode set to Distance-priority manual (GN) mode, and then the exposure meters were reactivated or the camera was turned on, the distance information displayed on the SB-800 changed.  This issue has been resolved.
- When the Multi-Power Battery Pack MB-D10 was mounted on the camera and an EN-EL3e battery inserted in the camera but no batteries inserted in the MB-D10, and SB-900 flash mode set to TTL auto flash mode, the flash mode changed to A mode when the exposure meters turned off or were reactivated, or the camera was turned off or on.  This issue has been resolved.  (This issue has also been resolved with SB-900 firmware Ver. 5.02.

- An issue that, in extremely rare cases, resulted in noticeable black dots in images captured with Long exp. NR in the shooting menu set to On has been resolved.
- Manamah, displayed in the Time zone options for the World time item in the setup menu, has been changed to Manama.


Windows users can download the update from here and Mac users need to gohere.

An update for Silkypix Developer Studio application is now available for download. Version 3.0.23.0 adds support for the newly released Nikon D700 DSLR and is available for free to registered users.

 
New Features in Version 3.0

 
Many new features are included in Developer Studio Version 3

* Differences in Image Quality: Improved development engine

* Differences in Tone: The nonlinear processing components of output gamma and tone curve levels have changed.

* Differences in Highlight rendering: The new development engine uses high graduation sequencing to aid silky smooth highlight recovery.

* Differences in Parameters: Sub controls, sharpness controls, noise controls, highlight controls and colourspace have changed.

The Nikon D700 which is a cutting-edge amalgamation of the Nikon D300 and D3 was reviewed by the folks over at Imaging-Resource. Image quality was found to be stellar and so was the ISO performance especially at higher ISOs. The Active D-lighting feature was able to improve shadow detail just as promised by Nikon and the dust reduction system was effective too. Some of D700’s turn offs were its big body and the lack of in-body image stabilization.