No, I didn’t have a D3 with me the other day. I’m talking about Cliff Mautner, a wedding photographer and Nikon Rep “with benefits”, if you know what I mean…

http://cliffmautner.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/ok-its-after-1a.html

Check out his blog post, the images are beautiful… (And they are JPG’s straight out of the camera, allegedly)

Wow, I really wish it wasn’t $5,000, otherwise I’d buy one in a jiff. Hopefully Nikon will be coming out with a 5D equivalent soon, mayb with the D3 sensor but in a cheaper body? That would be sweet….

Although still, I’m skeptical as to how much of this newfound advantage has to do with the full-frame sensor. And I’ll still be saving up for a D300 first. I’m sure that it does just as good of a job in the hands of a skilled user and with some good f/1.4 primes and f/2.8 zooms, just maybe with 1 stop less DOF and 1-2 stops less high ISO performance. Which, for a $3,200 savings, I can live with.

=Matt=