NIKON D3

Thank you Nikon!

The very elusive Nikon D3 is now in my hands! The most lusted after camera on the planet at the moment (and for many, many revolutionary picture taking capability reasons) now lives at my home.

I have to shoot my brother's wedding tomorrow -- I think I'm too intimidated at the moment by the gorgeous camera beast that is the D3 to risk shooting with it at the wedding. My brother has made his living in the past as a wedding photographer and I need not screw up this shoot I think I'll just have to take both the D3 and the D200 and shoot and play both :)

For those into photography, the only playing I've done is to throw on a long lens and take a photo in THE DARK (the only light was that from behind me and leaking into the kitchen from the other room) and doing that was able to capture a shot -- @ ISO 6400! The ISO sensitivity and low noise hype is clearly no hype at all (not that I doubted it for a minute). Can't wait to figure out the new auto focus options.

Oh, and it feels like it is growing out of my palm when holding it, such is its ergonomics. And it is one damn pretty form of fabulous function -- designed it is by famed auto designer, Giugiaro.

That'll be the extent of any product review, btw. Let's instead see if the D3 is reflected in my output.

And now of course, as never before, the old adage that a great camera won't make even a mediocre photographer, has come home to roost :)