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1. Michael Hepler Smith says:

   January 12, 2010 at 11:27 am

   Nikon d700 “new” (though I have my doubts) arrived with all its cut­ting edge tech­nol­ogy, its bells and whis­tles, its superla­tive reviews. I charged up a bat­tery and attached a brand new Nikor 24-120mm lens, inserted an 8gb flash­card, for­mat­ted same, enabled “live­view” mode, removed the lens cover turned on the cam­era pointed and…stared, open-mouthed, at a blank dark monitor…now I am a novice, I don’t deny it, so I was sure that I had missed a switch, a but­ton, a lever, a trig­ger, a step, a sequence, a cryp­tic ges­ture, a pass­word or a mantra which all but the most hope­lessly untu­tored DSLR users already know and per­form auto­mat­i­cally and with­out think­ing. So I read the “Quick-Start” over and over, search­ing for the hid­den nuance, hop­ing it would sud­denly jump out in front of me and I’d shout, “Oh for Pete’s sake, of course, you have to blow on the flash bulb and tighten the cam­era strap first before the mon­i­tor turns on. How dense can I be?” But I came to no such epiphany, and so I called the Nikon 800 num­ber and I was told, “You have a bad cam­era, Joe,” and though my name is not Joe, I thanked the man for the bad news. The cam­era is on its way, as we chat, to NV whence it came and I am left won­der­ing what kind of shoddy qual­ity con­trol placed Nikon’s name on that cam­era neatly packed in that box with all of its acces­sories and cables and oper­at­ing man­u­als, for me, the unsus­pect­ing and very dis­ap­pointed would-be user to dis­cover that oh, it doesn’t work.Nikon D700 12.1MP Dig­i­tal SLR Cam­era (Body Only)
   Rat­ing: 1 / 5
2. Basil says:

   January 12, 2010 at 11:48 am

   I bought this Nikon D700 from Ama­zon as a new cam­era for my brother. Just got mes­sage from him, that the cam­era was not new. Has over 3000 pic­tures made on it. Very bad news. Don’t you think.
   Rat­ing: 1 / 5
3. Bestefar says:

   January 12, 2010 at 2:47 pm

   OK, Ama­zon asked me (by email) to review this cam­era so I’m going to bite. First of all, I must say that I am a long-time Nikon user. I cur­rently own two film bodies(N90S and F100) and one DSLR (D200). I’ve used pri­mar­ily the D200 for the past 3 years. Before that, I col­lected a lot of “film” Nikkors as well as my film bod­ies, so that was one rea­son I wanted to go FX. So I’m not a troll or have any axe to grind with Nikon. Gen­er­ally their prod­ucts have per­formed very well for me and when (rarely) I have needed their cus­tomer ser­vice, it has been good. I love the F100 and if I had time, I think I would still shoot film with it. But this review is about the D700 and unfor­tu­nately, the D700 is on its way back to Ama­zon for a refund. There was a really bad spot on the sen­sor (many pix­els were affected) that was vis­i­ble on any image shot at ISO 400 or above. This “red spot” was even vis­i­ble on jpegs on the nor­mal size that opened with NX2 — no mag­ni­fi­ca­tion. The main rea­son I am writ­ing this review is to let prospec­tive buy­ers know you should thor­oughly check out your new cam­era ASAP after receiv­ing it. Thanks Ama­zon for you great return pol­icy! This was a BIG invest­ment for me. I have seen images from the D700 and they are really gor­geous but now I won­der how good Nikon’s QA/QC is. I’m unde­cided if I’m going to try another sam­ple as this has cre­ated work and anx­i­ety that I don’t need. I may stick with my D200 for awhile, as it still works great an pro­duces nice images. I have no idea what the prob­a­bil­ity of get­ting a defec­tive Nikon may be, but I sure would like to know the odds. I’m pretty sure that if I would not have been able to return the cam­era that Nikon would have made some sort of fix under war­ranty, but that would have been even more has­sle and anx­i­ety. Hence the title of this review. Good luck and I hope you get a good sam­ple. I’m sure this would have been five stars if I had got­ten a D700 with a good sen­sor.
   Rat­ing: 1 / 5
4. Sriram Srinivasan says:

   January 12, 2010 at 5:40 pm

   Nikon D700 was around 1,7XX few months back. Sud­denly the price got increased. Oh! That’s really bad.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
5. G. Hopper says:

   January 12, 2010 at 7:09 pm

   Can any­one who has bought this from Ama­zon tell me if it has a Nikon USA war­ranty or is grey mar­ket (Intl. war­ranty)? It does not say any­where in the prod­uct infor­ma­tion.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5

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