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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a review of the Nikon d600 with a full-frame 24 megapixel sensor excellent ergonomics and a price tag of thousand dollars or less than its rivals let's take a look at what it's all about at first glance the d600 looks just like every other reasonably high-end DSLR out there big bulky and filled with buttons start shooting with it however and the ergonomics quickly fall into place just like the d7000 I've got a few little issues like the button to change ISO is on the back of the camera but for the most part it's solid and significantly lighter than the d800 and d4 there are some nice features with the d600 in addition to your standard modes you can also program presets and save them to u1 and u2 which can be a huge help for example you can have one mode for shooting macro and instantly switch to shooting portraits without having to dial all of your settings and again having a pair of SD card slots is also convenient as SD cards really are good enough to replace CF for most people I shoot a lot of video everyday so most of the time I use the d600 in my studio with a full frame sensor and manual control over your video you can get some really excellent looking results out of the d600 it shoots in 1080p at 30 frames per second and 720p at up to 60 with a bit rate of 21 megabits per second at 1080p file stay nice and clean even at higher ISO and you have manual control over everything but aperture and live view if you're upgrading from a crop sensor camera one nice thing is that DX lenses work fine with video still record at 1080p and just pulled off a cropped portion of the sensor you'll find both microphone in and headphone out for monitoring which is a big help but what's a bit disappointing is the HDMI output Nikon advertises it as uncompressed HDMI out but some people find it's only 95 percent coverage I record to the camera so it's nothing that bothers me but hopefully it's something that can be resolved via firmware update speaking of an update there are some issues software can fix for example the excellent new one in YouTube modes are mostly ignored when a movie live you where they work perfectly for stills image quality is fantastic as you would expect from a full-frame Nikon with 24 megapixels to work with it hits a nice sweet spot between the d4 and d800 and it's honestly way more than most people need you can easily crop shots down to 10 megapixels and still have plenty of resolution to work with color is very good however you may need to do some tweaking to get it perfect as it tends to be a bit greener than I like low light performance is absolutely top-notch comparing well with even the d800 I had no problem shooting an ISO 3200 with perfectly acceptable amount of noise even 6400 is entirely usable although there is a fair bit of noise if you look closely and it's expandable out to twenty five thousand six hundred you'll also find a time lapse mode built-in which works very well it's easy to set up and the results can be very very impressive the d600 will shoot at five point five frames per second a significant jump over the d800 well that's nothing on the d4 it's perfectly respectable and good enough for all but the most series of action shooters the viewfinder has 100 percent coverage and is a massive improvement over DX cameras one thing that isn't for thick is the autofocus it's got 39 points which work perfectly fine but all the points are clustered in the center of the frame it isn't something all that out of the ordinary on full-frame cameras however so I don't mind too much overall the Nikon d600 is an incredible camera well it's not targeted at pros I can see it replacing ad700 or d800 thanks to its lighter weight excellent ergonomics and almost perfect megapixel count it works well for video as is and provides image quality that's on par with even the d4 which cost nearly three times as much for a camera aimed at enthusiasts Nikon absolutely nailed it with the d600 if you enjoyed be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe