"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Boater" wrote in message
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About $8000 for the body only. (Yikes)

24,5 Megapixel in FX-Format
3D Color Matrix II, Center-Weighted and Spot Metering
1 - 7 fps
1/8000 to 30 seconds shutter
ISO equivalency 100 to 1,600
2 lb 11 oz / 1220 g
Price est. $7,995 USD body

Another FX-format camera means that Nikon will jump back with both feet
into the production of full-frame lenses, updating some of the current
ones and introducing new ones.

SW Tom should buy of the new D3X boxes...



I have a friend who would be the one to buy this camera. But he makes his
living as a professional photographer, and lots of his are Corporate
annual reports where they need high quality photos. Most of his pics are
stored on the computer hooked up to the camera and are 200 mbytes or
greater. The rest of us use the $1000 or less Nikon SLR.


The Navy has a website that I visit once in a while called Navy Newstand,
"Eyes on the Fleet".
The main page has a search field in the upper right that you can put in a
specific ship or command
and get recent photos. They have several levels of quality, including an
option to download a "High Rez"
image of the picture of interest. I've noticed that virtually all the
photos (taken by Navy Photographer's Mates" are done with a Nikon D2X.
Some of them, particularly the ones taken at sea, are spectacular.

I posted an example on my website (link below). It's of the homecoming of
the USS Harry S Truman in Norfolk after their last Persian Gulf deployment.
If it displays the way it does on my computer, the image should show up with
a little magnifying glass with a + sign in it. If you click on the image
with the + sign, it should expand out to full size. If you download it into
a photo viewing program, it's amazing how much you can zoom it before it
starts to get pixulated. Pixilated? Blurry? It's already degraded
somewhat simply by the conversion to a .jpg.

I can't believe the clarity the D2X does, remembering that it's a digital
camera. I wonder how much better the D3X is. Here's the link:

http://www.eisboch.com/Truman1.jpg

Eisboch