Friday, Oct 19, 2012

Dubai: Nikon has launched its lightest and smallest FX Format DSLR camera in the UAE. Despite having the smallest and lightest body among Nikon FX-format cameras, the D600 offers advanced performance. It is equipped with a new FX-format CMOS image sensor with 24.3-million effective pixels and the same EXPEED 3 image-processing engine built into high-end Nikon DSLRs (D4, D800, D800E) for superior definition and image quality.

Despite being portable, it offers superior image quality and rendering performance, and durability of high-end FX-format DSLRs. The D600 boasts a number of advanced features, including an optical view-finder with 3.2-inch LCD monitor and wide-viewing angle. It is also equipped with the Multi-area mode Full-HD D-Movie function, which enables recording in either FX- or DX-based movie format for more creative freedom.

The D600 measures 4.4 by 5.6 by 3.2 inches and weighs 771 grams without a lens.

The viewfinder is the same 100 per cent pentaprism that’s found in the D4 and D800, but it does have a different eyepiece. Its eye-point (the measurement of how far away your eye can be from the finder and still see it in its entirety) is 20.6 millimetres, a full 1.1 millimetres longer than the D4 and D800. This makes it easy for eyeglass wearers to see the entirety of the frame, but does make the viewfinder appear just a bit smaller than an identical one with a shorter eyepoint.

One advantage that Nikon users have over Canon shooters is lens compatibility — you can mount APS-C DX lenses on the D600 via a mode that crops the image in-camera, but Canon shooters can’t move APS-C EF-S lenses to a full-frame system, the mounts are incompatible.

The Nikon D600, priced at Dh8,999 for the body only, also features a Nikon-standard hot shoe, with a maximum sync speed of 1/200th of a second. (In FP mode, most Nikon Speedlights can of course be used at any shutter speed up to the camera’s top speed of 1/4000th of a second but that entails a loss of power and flash range.)

By Naushad K. Cherrayil Staff Reporter

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