Whiskeyman
Senior Member
My "new" D700 arrived Wednesday, and of course I wasn't around to open it up and had to wait until last night (Thursday) to even open the shipping container.
It looks nearly new, with no apparent wear and no "dirt" from human handling. My first impressions were and still are that this is a very good camera.
I put a 50 1.8 Nikkor on it to try it out. It focuses and shoots like it should, except the first images seema bit overexposed. I'll get out a gray card and test for exposure in a bit. Other than that, the images look fantastic! Great detail.
I've begun to read the Quick Start Guide and the book Mastering the Nikon D700 and have quite a bit of reading to finish so that I can be familiar enough with the camera to try it out tomorrow when my Son's pipe band performs. I can't wait to really get started with it.
My only concern so far was that it doesn't have a Nikon USA sticker anywhere on the camera that I can find, but the box matches the camera's serial number and the box has the (U) designation on it, so I believe that it is a US model. My next step is to download software to check the record of shutter actuations, or to figure out how to do so with the software that I already have.
Does anyone have any advice to lend as to what I should look for to check this camera out? I look forward to any advice. (Other than if someone recommends that I immediately send the camera to them for a thorough evaluation!!!
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It looks nearly new, with no apparent wear and no "dirt" from human handling. My first impressions were and still are that this is a very good camera.
I put a 50 1.8 Nikkor on it to try it out. It focuses and shoots like it should, except the first images seema bit overexposed. I'll get out a gray card and test for exposure in a bit. Other than that, the images look fantastic! Great detail.
I've begun to read the Quick Start Guide and the book Mastering the Nikon D700 and have quite a bit of reading to finish so that I can be familiar enough with the camera to try it out tomorrow when my Son's pipe band performs. I can't wait to really get started with it.
My only concern so far was that it doesn't have a Nikon USA sticker anywhere on the camera that I can find, but the box matches the camera's serial number and the box has the (U) designation on it, so I believe that it is a US model. My next step is to download software to check the record of shutter actuations, or to figure out how to do so with the software that I already have.
Does anyone have any advice to lend as to what I should look for to check this camera out? I look forward to any advice. (Other than if someone recommends that I immediately send the camera to them for a thorough evaluation!!!
)
