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A glance revealed it was my friend from Barrow who deals in Nikon cameras. "Hey buddy, I have just come back from London" he said; I retorted, jokingly, "laden with D3's? LOL" Well it seems he has obtained some examples which are not wonderful cosmetically but seem to be functionally OK.
Just what I need, poor cosmetics should mean realistic pricing.
I was only looking at prices on fleaBay a couple of days ago and they are becoming more realistic, from my point of view anyway.
As I have said many times, I only ever considered the DX format as a temporary measure until Nikon managed to create a 'proper', full frame sensor. I only have two DX lenses, a Sigma 10-20mm and my 18-105mm which is pretty well glued to the D3100, although it turns out to be an excellent IR lens on the D200 IR.
My policy has always been to only buy full frame lenses, mainly from the film era. So I am well placed to make use of an FX sensor body.
Having had the opportunity to try a D3 and D700 side by side, I much prefer the feel and smooth operation of the D3.
Having quickly read the spec's, it seems it will mean a slight increase of 2M pixels over the D200 to about 12M pixels, but the low light - hi ISO should be a huge improvement compared with the D200. Not that I take many photo's of black cats in coal cellars!
My new garage... Taken with the D3100.
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Robert.