Nikon D700 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Nikon D700 is a DSLR that weighs around 995 grams and comes with a 12.1 megapixel full-frame sensor, a New Kevlar carbon fibre shutter with 150,000 exposure durability, a 7.6 cm LCD monitor in a light and compact Magnesium alloy body. It joins ...

Pros: Where to start? Anyone who's serious about photography will be drooling over the D700's specs: a full-frame 12-megapixel sensor that serves up images smoother than Daniel Craig's dinner jacket, machine-gun rapid 5fps continuous shooting, plus the ...

Cons: You might need to sell a few snaps to the red tops to afford the D700 – and that's before you've even thought about the top quality lenses you'll want on front (budget at least another £300). Don't worry about the sheer scope of the manual controls on ...

Verdict: Everything you need to go pro except a long lens and the willingness to stick it through Madonna's front window. This stunningly high-powered camera should last, well, forever.

Pros: Full-frame sensor, smaller and lighter body than the D3, useful Live View, virtual horizon, comfortable to use

Cons: Slightly slower than the D3

Verdict: If you're already a D-SLR user, the next step up is a full-frame camera. Consider the D700 for its size and more competitive price compared to the top-of-the-line D3, as you won't lose too much in the way of features and capabilities.

Review summary: Is it rational to call a $3000 camera a bargain? It is when it delivers nearly all the features of the company's revered $5000 pro model, which is precisely the case with the Nikon D700. Basically the D700 takes the best parts of two established ...

Pros: - Noise-free images - Excellent LCD display - Topnotch overall image quality - Fast, accurate auto focus - Nicely balanced for handling ease

Cons: - Larger and heavier than most SLRs - Slow Live View auto focus - Expensive

Verdict: The Nikon D700 and its big brother, the D3, allow you to take available light pictures in near darkness, with remarkably little image noise. This is not a subtle enhancement: it opens the door to new photographic possibilities. While the most ...

Review summary: This 12 megapixel camera has an FX sensor (full 35mm film frame size) as used in the professional D3. The camera body is more akin to the DX (APS size sensor) D300, but without some of the touches like extra dust and moisture sealing. It lacks the ...

Pros: Like the D3 the D700 automatically detects DX lenses, which have a smaller exposure circle, and shows a crop rectangle in the viewfinder. You lose some pixels but you get a perfect picture. Images are noise free with wide dynamic range and beautiful ...

Cons: This is not a complaint, merely an observation. With a full frame sensor depth of field is reduced, by comparison with an APS sized sensor, for any given f stop. Closer attention needs to be paid of ISO, aperture and shutter speed. Fortunately the ...

Verdict: Someone has calculated that for a digital camera to match the resolving power of film it needs to have 14 megapixels on a full frame sensor. If that is right then this camera comes close to the ideal. Like its close siblings, the D300 and the D3, the ...

Review summary: Forget budget DSLR, this is for serious photography. Extravagant in almost every way, the D700 is superbly responsive and produces stunning images

Verdict: Each extra step of ISO on the D700 brings with it an extra step of shutter speed, so an environment that calls for a blurry shutter speed of 1/10th of a second will produce the same exposure at 1/80th at ISO 3200, which simplifies indoor hand-held shots