D700x

FYI – This was posted as an April Fools joke!

It’s what you have been waiting for.  And the cost is right where we expected it to be.  24MP FX, 3 FPS (5 FPS DX): $3,299

Quick Overview

The new Nikon D700x has been the want and desire of every Nikon user out there, amateur to professional.  The rumors have been bounding about for well over a year, with them increasing constantly over the past few months as the D700 began to vanish from inventory around the globe.  Nikon finally announced this beast in all it’s glory.  As suspected, here are some of the juicy details:

Finder

• 95% coverage (of full FX frame, not the tiny DX frame).
• 0.72x with 50mm lens. (D3 is 0.7x and 100% coverage).
• 18mm eyepoint.
• Inferior finder for DX lenses; the D700x doesn’t crop the finder as does the D3.

Auto Focus

• 51 points.
• CAM3500FX sensor array (same as D3X).
• Fine-tuning, if you have slight errors with certain lenses.

Shutter

• 1/8,000 ~ 30 sec, bulb.
• Carbon fiber and Kevlar.
• Tested to 150,000 cycles.

Sensor

• 24MP CMOS, same as D3X.
• 14-bit linear ADC, 16-bit data pipelines, as the D3X.
• 12-channel parallel readout.
• FX (23.9 x 36mm) and cropped DX, just like D3X.
• No professional 5:4 mode.

Resolution

• 24MP in FX, 10MP in DX.
• FX (24 x 36mm): 6,048 x 4,032 (L), 4,544 x 3,024 (M) and 3,024 x 2,016 (S).
• DX (16 x 24mm): 3,968 x 2,640 (L), 2,976 x 1,976 (M), 1,984 x 1,320 (S)

Other Tech

• Two slots: CF card and SD card.
• USB.
• Optional WT-4 wireless and ethernet.

Imagine, all this announced on April 1st…. yes… imagine. (Queue the hate mail…)