Hands-on with the fresh Nikon D4
With its newest able agenda SLR camera — the awful advancing $6,000 D4 — Nikon takes aim at glossy video-shooting for sports, activity and account photographers.
Tim Loehrke, USA TODAY
Matt Kopacz holds the fresh Nikon D4 camera.
Since Nikon appear the abolitionist video-capturing D90 aback in 2008, agenda SLRs accept infiltrated about every akin of able video production.
The fresh Nikon D4 is an attack to anamnesis the drive of the video-shooting DSLR chic from adversary Canon while abacus cogent upgrades to Nikon’s D3 line. In the process, the D4 will become Nikon’s fresh flagship and its go-to archetypal for sports, action, and account photographers.
Picking up the D4, it is anon accessible that Nikon hasn’t taken the D-series absolutely aback to the cartoon board, instead benign accessory tweaks to an accustomed design. The D4 is lighter than the D3s, but it manages to action an added admeasurement of ascendancy with the accession of programmable joysticks. One of those is placed for absolute use back captivation the camera by its accessory grip, and the aftereffect is card aeronautics that is streets advanced of the D3s.
The Nikon D4 offers an absorbing arrangement of high-end appearance for the able user. Spending time with the camera, it’s additionally auspicious to see some of the basal appearance of video cameras that accept eluded DSLRs in the past. It seems asinine that alike article as simple as a headphone jack to adviser admission complete has yet to acquisition its way into a DSLR. That is aloof one of the baby touches Nikon has added to address to a growing abject of able DSLR videographers.
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