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I am a long suffering Nikon user whos is getting by with the appalling D200 camera. I am thinking of chucking Nikon in and buying the Canon 1ds Mk111. The changeover with lenses will cost me a fortune.I have herad some good things about the D3 though. Is it worth giving Nikon another chance?

The D3 actually exceeds the hype, the first camera to do so for a while.

The D700 is effectively a D3 minus the continuous frame rate (5fps vs. 9), the 4×5 crop option, only one CF slot and with a significantly reduced battery life (about 1/3 of the D3). If you can live with that it costs $2000 less.

I own the D3 and I have recently got into professional photography i have a job coming up and was wondering what flashgun is recommended for the D3 as i have just moved over from Canon.

SB800, SB600, or SB400 will work and you'll have full iTTL functionality.

Older Nikon flash guns as well as other 3rd party flash guns
(Metz, etc.) will also work but you won't have full iTTL feature set.

Additionally you can 'probably' also use the Nikon Macro flash (R1, R1 C1) systems but you should check directly with Nikon for that.

HTH