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April 2012
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The editors liked
Full frame sensor
10 fps RAW shooting
Manual audio controls
Webbased camera control
Dual card slots
Uncompressed video via HDMI port
Superb image quality
Amazing lowlight abilities
1080p movie mode
Same tough and wellconsidered pro camera build with a lower pentaprism that offers 100 percent viewfinder coverage
Speedier overall than the previous model (which was already speedy)
Higher resolution sensor than previous model allows you to print large
Speed
A gazillion useful features
And excellent high-ISO-sensitivity photos are among the Nikon D4's standout qualities
Classleading image noise
Superb dynamicrange
Ultrafast autofocus
Very fast continuous drive with deep buffer
Extremely fast and responsive
Ultrashort blackout
Good coloraccuracy
Flexible selftimer and exposure delay
Highly customizable with plenty
Full frame sensor. Every physical control you could ever want. Integrated vertical grip. Shoots at 10 frames per second. Very low image noise. Uncompressed 1080p video output.
Separate 91
000pixel sensor is dedicated to light metering
Autofocus and recognizing and adjusting to different shooting scenarios. More rounded and ergonomic design with lower pentaprism still lets you see 100 percent of what you're shooting through the
Performance is hard to fault
Build quality is excellent and there's pretty much every feature you could ask for.
The editors didn't like
Expensive
No SD card slot
Choice to go with new XQD card format for second card slot is dubious
Our first test model experienced lockup/freeze issue
Competing camera from Canon has slightly faster frame rate
Price
$5
999
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The camera's vertical and horizontal shooting experience could be a little more consistent
Poor Automatic WB in lowlight
Overly soft JPEGs
Bizarre Auto ISO
Poor Liveview
Not ExposurePriority
Exposure Delay mode hidden in menu
Indistinct ISO button
Rather bulky
No 16
9 guidelines for timelapse
Asymmetric memory card types
Big and heavy. 16-megapixel resolution. Only one CF card slot
Second card slot is Sony's new and expensive XQD format. Builtin mic only offers mono sound. Burst shooting is a frame slower persecond than the competing Canon 1D X
The price point means its out of reach for most of us.
Abstract: The Nikon D4 is the camera that Nikon is hoping will be the camera of choice for professional sports photographers and photo journalists shooting the Olympic Games in London this summer.Consequently, it is designed as an all-purpose, go anywhere, shoot an...
Performance is hard to fault, build quality is excellent and there's pretty much every feature you could ask for.
The price point means its out of reach for most of us.
Bettering the D3s was always going to be a hard task, but with the D4, Nikon has achieved it. While it may not be as groundbreaking as the original D3, the D4 is a better camera in every way - every element of the D3s appears to have been scrutinised ...
Abstract: Original: 1/9/2012Back in early summer of 2011 I actually wrote a full article about what I thought the D4 would be like when it was launched in August, based upon things I was hearing out of Japan. When it became clear that the quake had disrupted Ni...
Abstract: Jared Polin from FroKnowsPhoto.com has just handed me this press release from Nikon on their new D4! Which he says is pure awesome.Sniff test it? Yes he did… Watch the video below for Jared’s reaction to the newly announced Nikon D4Potentially availab...
Abstract: The Nikon D4 is an update to 2007's . The new Nikon D4 offers slightly higher frame rates, slightly higher resolution, an updated AF system that works better with teleconverters, Kelvin white balance settings in 10K increment...
Classleading image noise, Superb dynamicrange, Ultrafast autofocus, Very fast continuous drive with deep buffer, Extremely fast and responsive, Ultrashort blackout, Good coloraccuracy, Flexible selftimer and exposure delay, Highly customizable with plenty
Poor Automatic WB in lowlight, Overly soft JPEGs, Bizarre Auto ISO, Poor Liveview, not ExposurePriority, Exposure Delay mode hidden in menu, Indistinct ISO button, Rather bulky, No 16:9 guidelines for timelapse, Asymmetric memory card types
It is hard to describe the D4 without superlatives. This large professional DSLR has a full-frame 16 megapixels sensor which reaches a class-leading ISO 204,800 and can shoot continuously at 11 FPS for over 15 seconds.Image quality from the Nikon D4 is am...
Abstract: Nikon stays true to the ‘big pixel' philosophy of the original D3, and gives the D4 a set of upgraded features that are more significant in practice than they look on paper. It's not an overstatement to describe the D3 as one of the truly great Nikon S...
Abstract: With the D4 and the D800 being launched so close together inevitably there have been comparisons, but the two are actually very different animals. Yes, the D800 has a remarkable 36.8 megapixels sensor from which the E version extracts even more imaging pe...
Abstract: Thank you for searching out Australian Camera Magazine's equipment review of the Nikon D4 originally published in Camera Magazine, July/August 2012.This equipment review is currently available only as a low-resolution pdf version of the original magazine ...
