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Nikon D3

One of the first reviews of the Nikon D-3 is out, and the feedback is amazing:

I NEVER shoot on auto exposure. In fact I don’t think I have even used autoexposure on the Contax or Canons more than once, but since Nikon handed me this camera set on Auto I just thought I would see what happens, and it was dead on perfect, almost to the point I couldn’t trick it unless I was in extreme 5 stop backlight. Set to Matrix metering it just completely surprised me how accurate it was. From time to time I would moved the little +/- dial from .3 to .7 but usually the meter was dead on, even in mixed lighting.

Wow. Just wow. Michael Reichmann is a very talented photographer. I think his summary is accurate though:

Is the Nikon D3 better than the Canons? Who knows . . . who will ever know because we all shoot so differently and I didn’t actually compare the two side by side and probably never will.

I have to say that for the last few years Canon really has produced some amazing cameras, and I assume the next 1Ds MarkIII will be no exception, though Nikon is obviously back in the game.

I wish I could afford one, but I’m not that good a photographer.