Nikon Bodies
My site has seen a number of recent hits about people searching for Nikon D3s. I’ve read else where that they are shipping again and that stock is supposed to be available soon. However, if you need a recommendation beyond the big three, here is a link to follow Kenmore Cameras, Washington State.
Nikon has been busy. This FW release has been posted for the D3S.
The fixes are:
Movie recording specifications have been modified as follows and an issue that, in some rare cases, caused movie playback to appear to have stopped has been resolved.
- When exposure preview is enabled in live view tripod mode, information + histogram display is possible, but the histogram is no longer displayed while movies are recorded.
- When the live view button is pressed with the Audio Video Cable EG-D2 connected, the image is displayed in both the television and camera monitor, but the camera monitor now turns off during movie recording.
The camera monitor turns on again when the Audio Video Cable EG-D2 is disconnected from the camera.
- Some simplified Chinese menus and help displays have been revised.
- When some memory cards were inserted in the camera, “CHA” was displayed in the top control panel and images could not be captured. This issue has been resolved.
As I was finishing up my web post late last night my Nikon message screen popped open with the announcment of cameral control pro upgrade to V 2.7.1. As I had written in my previous Blog about the D3 Firmware upgrade , camera control could not access the new features of the firmware, so an upgrade was anticipated.
During the pre resurrection period of my D3, I reflected that after 50,000 shots that maybe it was a sign to start looking into the new D3s. Everything being written about this camera has been superlative, from Moose and Lloyd Chambers and the numerous other review sites.
So I decided to just go get me one. Not any easy task at all. There seems to be a domestic stock-out of the new body. I found this camera site link which gave me just about every site known to man, and I googled them all, all ways out of stock, back order, taking preshipping orders, wow. this camera was hard to find…
What pearl of wisdom that led me to a successful search, was a posting which said to go try a camera store off the beaten path, that had a 10-15 years in the business….so I tried to google from the #9 Gooooooooo… and came upon a site with the camera. checked the site credentials,read/researched buyer reviews and went and I placed my order via PAY PAL. That was my Christmas present. (Santa didn’t know I had traveled to Florida).
Today the UPS man showed up with a perfectly operating D3s. I plan to send out my road and sea wearied D3 out for cleaning and service, and then I’ll have two pro DLSR bodies..that’s the plan anyway….If you are in the market for a D3S and would like to know where I found my supplier, I can save you hours of leg work…I just checked at 11:00pm EST tonight 12/30/09 and they are still advertising them in stock. Please send me an email using the mail address found below in the footer and I’ll send back a quick response….
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