[UPDATE 1 Dec: Its the D3x! - D400 for PMA ?]
D3X: 24MP full frame - 35 mm sensor (FX in Nikon terminology)
Remark:
D3 is a great camera with unmatched low light/high ISO sensibility. The body is all magnesium and sealed. Its basically an F7 (which never existed of course), that is an F6 with the battery pack welded F5 style, designed by Giugiaro.
However, the pixel count (12MP) is lower than competition for whatever reason. Either Nikon engineers were careful for their first full frame sensor which is also their first CMOS apparently designed inhouse or that they wanted to preserve a comfortable growth margin or they simply wanted to milk the market (D3 release price above 5000$)...
Anyway the direct competition now are Canon 5D Mark II (21MP) and Sony Alpha A900 (24MP) both full frame DSLR.
Nikon also introduced video capacity in its recent D90, hence the perceived necessity for Nikon to release updates of its top cameras D3/D300 to increase pixel count and include video.
So the idea now is that, given the successful parallel launch of launch D3/D300 couple a year ago, a second camera body successor to D300 could be also announced in the future in order to counter the Canon 5DII/50D couple. See interesting posting here.
In any case, here are the most likely expectations:
D3X: 24MP full frame - 35 mm sensor (FX in Nikon terminology)
Remark:
D3 is a great camera with unmatched low light/high ISO sensibility. The body is all magnesium and sealed. Its basically an F7 (which never existed of course), that is an F6 with the battery pack welded F5 style, designed by Giugiaro.
However, the pixel count (12MP) is lower than competition for whatever reason. Either Nikon engineers were careful for their first full frame sensor which is also their first CMOS apparently designed inhouse or that they wanted to preserve a comfortable growth margin or they simply wanted to milk the market (D3 release price above 5000$)...
Anyway the direct competition now are Canon 5D Mark II (21MP) and Sony Alpha A900 (24MP) both full frame DSLR.
Nikon also introduced video capacity in its recent D90, hence the perceived necessity for Nikon to release updates of its top cameras D3/D300 to increase pixel count and include video.
So the idea now is that, given the successful parallel launch of launch D3/D300 couple a year ago, a second camera body successor to D300 could be also announced in the future in order to counter the Canon 5DII/50D couple. See interesting posting here.
In any case, here are the most likely expectations:
- Minimum or no modification to both chassis. Body, LCD res., prism great, buttons ergonomic are great. Nikon only misses the Canon click wheel on the back - but ok that's a long debate.
- Introduction of full HD capacity (1080p), Canon 5DmkII has it
- New sensors 16 MP for D400 and 24 for D3x - Origin Sony FF CMOS, cropped for D400. Question if Nikon going back to cooperation with Sony, what about the Nikon sensor developing capacity? Remember that Canon sensors are all developed in house.
- Sensor cleaning (at least for D3x)
- Image processor to be updated to handle higher resolutions. D3 is 12 channel (4 for each color), with a 14 bit A/D converter and D3 uses 16-bit data transmission throughout the image-processing pipeline. Should these figures increase ?
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