D3x Official Announcement

[DivePhotoGuide]

Hey guys - it's official the D3x will soon be available and the price tag of $8,000 was also revealed. We have the complete press release and a bunch of images of the D3x on DivePhotoGuide.com.

Personally, I'm psyched, can't wait to get my hands on this bad boy!

Full release here or click on the image below.

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[Eskasi]

You will need MASSIVE high speed CF cards at 50mb per RAW file. At least there two slots...

I SO want one.....but I may just hold off till there is an update to a version using a smaller body (like the D700). I am wondering how lucky those with D3 housings are going to be.... is the body an exact match?

 

[DivePhotoGuide]

I shoot with a D3 now and love the 2 CF slots, i keep 2 8GB in there already, and yes will think about getting those new 16's!

The D3x and D3 body are the same, only the sensor is different.

 

[SparticleBrane]

Looks like the D3x is a bit of a bust and Nikon fanboys are going to start wasting $8,000 on what is essentially a D3.

 

[DivePhotoGuide]

It provides medium format quality - I'd call that anything but a bust. The price tag - yes OUCH! I wasn't expecting it to be that high. I love my D3. The image quality is so vastly superior to any other Nikon to date (the D700 is pretty much the same thing though). We expected a slower frame burst and ISO range, but that's an expected pay off for resolution. That being said - keep in mind that doubling MP only effectively increases resolution by about 40%, but still, if you knit pick details of quality, every margin counts.

If you don't shoot professionally, the D3x means very little other than the ego rub of the top-of-the-line camera and an $8k toy. But for pro shooters, the additional resolution provides additional image quality, use of smaller cropped areas at higher resolution, and photo buyers tend to continue to require larger files as the new models are able to produce them (whether necessary or not).

All I have to say is thankfully there were no body changes! That would have sucked for underwater shooters.

 

[SparticleBrane]

If we want medium format quality, perhaps we should just wait for the fabled "MX" format...

 

[Mariozi]

It is the specs I want at the wrong tag price. I will wait the sensor to go down the line to a D400 or D800.

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

You will need MASSIVE high speed CF cards at 50mb per RAW file. At least there two slots...

The full res raw files are 138 MB. About 242 images per 32G card.

My Canon-bigot hiking buddy says the Canon users are really upset
about the D3X. Upset that Nikon didn't price it lower which would
get Canon to lower their prices. ;-)

 

[DivePhotoGuide]

That would be the processed TIFF you are referring to. The RAW files are more manageable.

If the D3 was as follows, I assume the D3x would be about 2x:

NEF Lossless compressed, 12-bit 13.3MB
NEF Lossless compressed, 14-bit 16.3MB
NEF Compressed, 12-bit 11.0MB
NEF Compressed, 14-bit 13.8MB
NEF Uncompressed, 12-bit 18.8MB
NEF Uncompressed, 14-bit 24.7MB
TIFF (RGB Large/8-bit), Uncompressed, 35.9MB
JPEG (Large/Fine), 5.7MB

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

That would be the processed TIFF you are referring to. The RAW files are more manageable.

If the D3 was as follows, I assume the D3x would be about 2x:

NEF Lossless compressed, 12-bit 13.3MB
NEF Lossless compressed, 14-bit 16.3MB
NEF Compressed, 12-bit 11.0MB
NEF Compressed, 14-bit 13.8MB
NEF Uncompressed, 12-bit 18.8MB
NEF Uncompressed, 14-bit 24.7MB
TIFF (RGB Large/8-bit), Uncompressed, 35.9MB
JPEG (Large/Fine), 5.7MB

MMM, D3X from Nikon says "138 MBI Processed NEF (RAW)
12 or 14 bit image files". That's clearly wrong, unless Nikon is REALLY
stupid, and they ain't.

The D3x is 6,048 x 4,032 at 14 bits per pixel. That's
6048*4032*14/8 = 42,674,688 bytes.

I don't choose to afford either one. Still like film.