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I took my Nikkor 20mm f2.8 along since I really bought it with full frame in mind. It is superb!
Having tried the two available D3's, one has about 175,000 actuations, the other about 225,000 actuations. They both seem to have been studio cameras because they haven't been bashed or bumped, the rubbers are good and there is very little sign of wear on the black parts, even underneath.
We took quite a lot of exposures with both D3 bodies, we then put my card into a D700 which my buddy wanted me to try. I said I don't want a D700 but just for fun we had a play. Well one of the the D700's drove us mad, we couldn't get the exposure right. We were using an SB800 flash. It was grossly underexposing. Eventually we discovered the exposure bracketing was set to 'ON" and the flash exposure compensation -3EV. Eventually after about an hour I worked out how to reset both to zero. The Fn button accesses the Exposure bracketing and we eventually figured the flash is controlled by the on-board flash compensation setting. That further convinced me the D700 is not for me because the D3 worked perfectly, with logical and intuitive controls.
I am now even more convinced the D3 is exactly what I need. I just need to try to strike a deal with my buddy.
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Robert.