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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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Quick question to all, What would you pay for a high mileage but well looked after D700 body? Or the least you have seen them sell for?
Cheers.
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andy-xr
8,421 posts
73 months
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I sold mine for £1350 a year ago with 28k actuations
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Cheib
6,232 posts
44 months
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I remember some very high mileage ones going for well under £1000....we're talking 100,000 plus actuations.
I wouldn't pay up too much for one as D800's are starting to become more freely available and if the rumours are true about the D600 specs and pricing the D700 won't be worth £1000 plus for much longer.
Tis a bloody good camera but those two will definitely hurt it's residuals.
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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How does £700 sound? is that reasonable considering the above?
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Cheib
6,232 posts
44 months
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Jetl3on said: How does £700 sound? is that reasonable considering the above? That's very good/cheap dpending on number of actuations. Those high actuation D700's were through MBP Photographic a few months ago and were in that area. If the camera you are looking at has less than 100,000 actuations that's very,very cheap.
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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Cheib said: That's very good/cheap dpending on number of actuations. Those high actuation D700's were through MBP Photographic a few months ago and were in that area. If the camera you are looking at has less than 100,000 actuations that's very,very cheap. The exif states 96223 `Image Number`, I take it that is the same as actuations?
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andy-xr
8,421 posts
73 months
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I included a screenshot from (I think it was) this site when I sold mine http://regex.info/exif.cgiThere's a few out there though, myshuttercount.com was another
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Cheib
6,232 posts
44 months
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Jetl3on said: Cheib said: That's very good/cheap dpending on number of actuations. Those high actuation D700's were through MBP Photographic a few months ago and were in that area. If the camera you are looking at has less than 100,000 actuations that's very,very cheap. The exif states 96223 `Image Number`, I take it that is the same as actuations? Yes. Those high actuation camera actually had up to 400,000 actuations but came with a 6 month warranty. I think £700 for a D700 with 100,000 actuations is a good price. I think the shutter is rated for 150,000 or so.
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Magic919
7,553 posts
70 months
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Fixation have a couple of 100,000+ examples at about a grand.
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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Some good feedback, much appreciated. He also threw in the MB10 grip and a camera bag, so I took the plunge, I cant wait to try it out.
One last query, what should i expect when using it with my current D90 lens setup? I understand the images will be cropped as they are not full frame lenses?
Just reading about compact flash, Sandisk sell 60mb/s and 30mb/s, but the write speeds are limited by the host device, do you happen to know what the write speed is of a D700?
cheers
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Simpo Two
54,270 posts
134 months
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Jetl3on said: One last query, what should i expect when using it with my current D90 lens setup? I understand the images will be cropped as they are not full frame lenses? With DX lenses the camera will autocrop to 5Mp (this is switchable in the menu so you can have all 12Mp if you like, and crop manually afterwards). And because you don't really want a 5Mp camera you will now have to sell them all and buy FX ones 
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Cheib
6,232 posts
44 months
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I've never heard people complain about the buffer on a D700. You really need some FX lenses though to appreciate the abaility of the camera.......what lenses do you have ?
80-200 F2.8 is a good and cheap (ish) second hand FX lens. 50mm is hard to beat for value obviously.
Downside of FX is the costs of the lenses!
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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Simpo Two said: Jetl3on said: One last query, what should i expect when using it with my current D90 lens setup? I understand the images will be cropped as they are not full frame lenses? With DX lenses the camera will autocrop to 5Mp (this is switchable in the menu so you can have all 12Mp if you like, and crop manually afterwards). And because you don't really want a 5Mp camera you will now have to sell them all and buy FX ones For now, I will have to use what I have got, what are the pros/cons of accepting the 5mp limitation or switching to 12Mp and cropping? Is there a noticeable difference. I know I will have to try it myself, but the wait till I get home and out, if its not raning is murder.
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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Cheib said: I've never heard people complain about the buffer on a D700. You really need some FX lenses though to appreciate the abaility of the camera.......what lenses do you have ?
80-200 F2.8 is a good and cheap (ish) second hand FX lens. 50mm is hard to beat for value obviously.
Downside of FX is the costs of the lenses! This is the part Im not liking, after painfully building my small amateur collection, having to change again  12-24 18-200 1.8 50mm 70-300 VRII 40mm Macro With all of the above, I might get 1 good FX lens I suppose, the equivalent of the 18-200 to start with.
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ChipsAndCheese
1,250 posts
33 months
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Jetl3on said: This is the part Im not liking, after painfully building my small amateur collection, having to change again 12-24 18-200 1.8 50mm 70-300 VRII 40mm Macro With all of the above, I might get 1 good FX lens I suppose, the equivalent of the 18-200 to start with. Which 50mm 1.8 do you have? The AF-S 50mm f/1.8G is FX isn't it? As is the 70-300mm VR. Should be ok with those two at least.
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Simpo Two
54,270 posts
134 months
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Jetl3on said: what are the pros/cons of accepting the 5mp limitation or switching to 12Mp and cropping? Is there a noticeable difference. Vignetting depends on the lens and the focal length - IIRC some DX lenses will fill most of the screen at certain focal lengths. So if you want to get the most for your money, crop manually to suit each image. Jetl3on said: This is the part Im not liking, after painfully building my small amateur collection, having to change again With all of the above, I might get 1 good FX lens I suppose, the equivalent of the 18-200 to start with. No, you are in grown-up land now so forget superzooms  You have the 12-24 already (assuming you mean the Nikon f2.8 jobbie?) The other two common members of the FX club are the 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8. I tried to run DX and FX alongside each other; it's a nightmare because you need two sets of lenses. As well as the vignetting issue, your effective focal length is different. You either need to embrace FX properly, or not at all I think.
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Pete Baraka
286 posts
50 months
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Jetl3on said: Just reading about compact flash, Sandisk sell 60mb/s and 30mb/s, but the write speeds are limited by the host device, do you happen to know what the write speed is of a D700?
cheers http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/camera_wb_multi_p...Hope this helps. Pete
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Jetl3on
Original Poster
1,396 posts
65 months
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ChipsAndCheese said: Which 50mm 1.8 do you have? The AF-S 50mm f/1.8G is FX isn't it? As is the 70-300mm VR. Should be ok with those two at least. Im not sure to be honest, I think its DX, it says AF 50mm 1.8D? And an AF-S 70-300mm ED, G, VR?
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NinjaPower
2,324 posts
49 months
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Jetl3on said: Im not sure to be honest, I think its DX, it says AF 50mm 1.8D?
And an AF-S 70-300mm ED, G, VR? Both those are FX lenses. So there you go, you have got a couple to play with there. I'm honestly not sure I would bother with the whole DX lenses and cropping on a D700, kind of defeats the point?
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ChipsAndCheese
1,250 posts
33 months
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Jetl3on said: Im not sure to be honest, I think its DX, it says AF 50mm 1.8D?
And an AF-S 70-300mm ED, G, VR? I don't think either of those are specific DX lenses so should be fine on an FX camera.
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