I placed an order for the Nikon D700 today.

This has been a long time coming and is a much needed upgrade to my DX format digital SLR’s. Why? Well, I’ve always been a reluctant DX shooter. To my eye there is something curiously unorthodox about the way images look when shot with 35mm lenses on a DX frame, especially when you’re trying to shoot with a wide angle lens. I’ve also never felt that the DX wide angles produced pleasingly rendered wide angle shots. They don’t look right to me and that’s why I have been loath to invest a lot of money in DX, particularly lenses like the Nikon 10.5mm DX Fisheye.

Not only that, I think that my style of shooting is better suited to a body that can produce high quality, low noise images at high ISO. Lord knows I have to do a lot of work to the stuff that I produce with my D70 and former D2H cameras, so if I can shoot at 3200 or even 6400 without having to go to extremes with the Neat Image plugin for Photoshop, I think I am going to be able to produce work of a much higher standard.

Well this is what I’ve been trying to convince myself of anyway!

For ages I have been wanting to specialise in photographing stage shows and this looks like the perfect camera for the job. I can’t wait to see how my Tamron 90mm 2.8 macro, Nikon 105mm 2.5 and Nikon 16mm 2.8 lenses perform on this beauty.

ETA at Nikon SA is 25 July, a week from today.

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