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Hands-On with the Nikon Flagship D-SLR, the D4 [CES 2012]
Mar 11, 2025
Hands-On with the Nikon Flagship D-SLR, the D4 [CES 2012]
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hey everyone airone Elijah here with cul
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amac.com I know you guys have seen
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several D4 posts that I've done I have
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finally laid my hands on the machine
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itself I'm here with Lindsay hi Lindsay
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and thank you for the wink and he's
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going to go through a quick uh Hands-On
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of this camera and some of the new
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features lindsy it's all you so first
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let me I'm going to have D4 speak for
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itself
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okay sounds like you're firing a machine
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gun right 10 frame per second right
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autofocus performance on an fx format
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sensor original Nikon design 16.2
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megapix sensor D4 has got improvements
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all over the place refinements
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improvements and newness that we haven't
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seen before in allas so for
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photographers we've got a
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91,000 yeah you heard it
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91,000 RGB pixels we upped it from the
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D3 from
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1,05 to 91,000 so more accurate exposure
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more accurate white balance more
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accurate igl
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greater accuracy and subject tracking
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we've also got uh built into the camera
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for those like me I'm really into this
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stuff it's got built in HDR so you can
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shoot High dynamic range one of those
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cool geoid features but I happen to be a
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geoid so I love okay okay so we got a
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brand new design element on the camera
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it's really more curvaceous it is more
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curvaceous one of the first things I
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noticed one of the comments one of the
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comments with beginning is boy it feels
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really light it's only 3 o Li than d3s
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but the new design really lends itself
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to feeling light
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when we at the back of the camera we've
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got some new joystick controls all the
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important buttons on the camera are
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backl illuminated so the camera can
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shoot up to a remarkable 204 800 excuse
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me
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24,800 ISO which is really dim lighting
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now you'll be able to see in that
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lighting to set the camera so the
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controls are are back up now for those
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transitioning or needing to shoot video
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T4 really really rocks it's got 1080p at
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24 25 and 30 frames per second it's got
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720p at 60 frames per second D4 the only
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camera that I know of that can actually
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crop to DX sensor size at 1.5x still
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give you 1080p there's also an
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additional 2.7x crop mode guess what
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1080p so whether you're shooting full
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frame DX or 2.7x you don't lose any
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resolution when shooting video on the
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video
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side we've got V Peak meters so you can
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monitor sound we've got this a headphone
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jack so you can actually monitor sound
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wearing headphones we've got an HDMI
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output so you can actually output
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through HDMI to an external recorder
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uncompressed video really cool there's a
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feature called simultaneous live view
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where you can see the live view screen
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and go out from an HDMI to an external
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monitor at the same time so for
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videographers the camera is really
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really really really improved over
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anything we've ever had and for still
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photographers the camera is just like
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totally amazing from the photographers
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who just shot our bore great Joe MCN
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Bill fraks Cory Rich tias HST they're
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all telling us that the performance of
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the camera is nothing short of Stellar
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so M on D4 soon to be in stores at $
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59.999 a deal a deal if I say so myself
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thanks a lot you're welcome
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