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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 637011" data-attributes="member: 43545"><p>Don't need flash? Flash/strobes are not used for lack of light as much as to improve the quality light that is used on every commercial shoot, every catalog, every outdoor shoot. Look at any catalog, any magazine or even web site for a commercial site and augmented light was used. Why? Because that is the only way to control the results for the intended purpose and assure standards are met such as light color temperature consistency between shots on different days. Waiting for conditions for a grab shot does not fit the workflow of a busy catalog shoot. </p><p>The D700 sensor is good but not in the same league as every other model currently in production. Noise floor, full well capacity, SNR and linearity of the ADCs have improved in all sensors, so now, the sensor and amplifiers of the D5500 mid range camera is better. The D3s was a better version because of updated sensor but the D700 never got an undated version. At the time they were the best available but now mostly sought for nostalgia or for specific applications. The big increase of low light performance improvement of the D3s was the addition of aggressive noise reduction that at high ISO dropped detail starting at 12.8k ISO. Later sensors like the one in the D500 uses scaling from 10k and up, until 1.6meg ISO where both scaling and noise reduction is applied. The electronics advances far faster than camera mechanicals and prices of those advances keep dropping. If the D3400 was released in 2007 it would be the widest DR, best low light, highest resolution digital camera in existence by a wide margin.</p><p>So a used 3 year old camera will deliver a lot of performance that a 8 year camera can't top, regardless of original price.For example the popular D7100 that sells for $350 used with a 18-105 lens, has twice the resolution as a Crop camera than the Full Frame D700 and 3 times the Dynamic range at the 100 ISO the studio shooting will be done. </p><p>The advantage of having a camera that can be repaired, as newer models are, is an added benefit. If it breaks, Nikon does not stock many parts for D700, if any and what few might be available will be very expensive. Looking at the part catalog, most parts are NLA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 637011, member: 43545"] Don't need flash? Flash/strobes are not used for lack of light as much as to improve the quality light that is used on every commercial shoot, every catalog, every outdoor shoot. Look at any catalog, any magazine or even web site for a commercial site and augmented light was used. Why? Because that is the only way to control the results for the intended purpose and assure standards are met such as light color temperature consistency between shots on different days. Waiting for conditions for a grab shot does not fit the workflow of a busy catalog shoot. The D700 sensor is good but not in the same league as every other model currently in production. Noise floor, full well capacity, SNR and linearity of the ADCs have improved in all sensors, so now, the sensor and amplifiers of the D5500 mid range camera is better. The D3s was a better version because of updated sensor but the D700 never got an undated version. At the time they were the best available but now mostly sought for nostalgia or for specific applications. The big increase of low light performance improvement of the D3s was the addition of aggressive noise reduction that at high ISO dropped detail starting at 12.8k ISO. Later sensors like the one in the D500 uses scaling from 10k and up, until 1.6meg ISO where both scaling and noise reduction is applied. The electronics advances far faster than camera mechanicals and prices of those advances keep dropping. If the D3400 was released in 2007 it would be the widest DR, best low light, highest resolution digital camera in existence by a wide margin. So a used 3 year old camera will deliver a lot of performance that a 8 year camera can't top, regardless of original price.For example the popular D7100 that sells for $350 used with a 18-105 lens, has twice the resolution as a Crop camera than the Full Frame D700 and 3 times the Dynamic range at the 100 ISO the studio shooting will be done. The advantage of having a camera that can be repaired, as newer models are, is an added benefit. If it breaks, Nikon does not stock many parts for D700, if any and what few might be available will be very expensive. Looking at the part catalog, most parts are NLA [/QUOTE]
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