Bjorn has received a production D700 for testing and apparently will be reporting the findings at the Nikon Gear Forum...I will provide a link below.
One thing of interest....the viewfinder is not 95%, but rather 90%...identical to the D200 viewfinder coverage area. (at least that appears to be what he's stating).
"Thirdly, here is the definite answer to the question of viewfinder coverage: the 95% figure is NOT a planar measure as it should be, but linear. Hence actual frame coverage is 90%. This figure will vary slightly with the actual lens used. I tested with the 45/2.8 PC-E. Traditionally, frame coverage is specified for a 50 mm lens at infinity.According to the D200 manual, coverage is 0.95 H x 0.95 W = 0.9 area. Just checked. So the figure is the same as the D700".
Honestly, I'm not at all sure that the viewfinder percentage is any real type of show stopper. I think one quickly adjusts to whatever it is that they are working with.
He also indicates that NX2 is required to open the RAW files.
The link to the thread is as follows:
http://nikongear.com/smf/index.php?topic=10771.0
One thing of interest....the viewfinder is not 95%, but rather 90%...identical to the D200 viewfinder coverage area. (at least that appears to be what he's stating).
"Thirdly, here is the definite answer to the question of viewfinder coverage: the 95% figure is NOT a planar measure as it should be, but linear. Hence actual frame coverage is 90%. This figure will vary slightly with the actual lens used. I tested with the 45/2.8 PC-E. Traditionally, frame coverage is specified for a 50 mm lens at infinity.According to the D200 manual, coverage is 0.95 H x 0.95 W = 0.9 area. Just checked. So the figure is the same as the D700".
Honestly, I'm not at all sure that the viewfinder percentage is any real type of show stopper. I think one quickly adjusts to whatever it is that they are working with.
He also indicates that NX2 is required to open the RAW files.
The link to the thread is as follows:
http://nikongear.com/smf/index.php?topic=10771.0