If you are an action, sports, or wildlife shooter, you can now use a smaller body and still get the high-speed frame-rates you need to capture fast-moving subjects. If shutter speeds are high enough, the D700 shoots at five frames per second with only a single EN-EL3e battery. The MB-D10 Battery Pack adds a little extra amperage and allows the camera to jump up to eight frames per second. I just went to YouTube.com and searched on “Nikon D700 Shutter” and found several videos that allow one to hear the sound of a Nikon D700 firing at eight frames per second. If you don’t have a D700 with an MB-D10 Battery Pack, check out the videos. It’s impressive!
If you have an 8- or 16-gigabyte (or higher) compact flash (CF) memory card, you can hold hundreds or even thousands of images on one card. The D700 is plenty fast, and with a fast CF card (think “ultra direct memory access” (UDMA), capable of 40 MB/sec), your card will hold the results. Try it out for yourself.
