Comments on: More confussion on the release date

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:22:45 +0000

[...] convincing of either point yet; however, Nikon Rumors has posted the trail of breadcrumbs here and here. You’ll also find a lively discussion in the DPR forums [...]

By: yadda

yadda — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:22 +0000

Of course, I meant “headline”….

LOL, never correct spelling or grammar on the internet. It’ll just come back to bite ya…..

By: yadda

yadda — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:33:42 +0000

The spelling error in the deadline makes the site look amateurish

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:21:16 +0000

It’s in Chinese, actually, and the translation is already up.

By: Dan Wells

Dan Wells — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:15:13 +0000

There’s a very official-looking Nikon invitation for Dec. 1 posted here:
http://www2.xitek.com/showpicture.php?action=http://www7.xitek.com//forum/200811/6054/605420/605420_1226923890.jpg
It’s in Japanese, which I don’t read, so I have no idea what it says, but the date IS on there in Western numerals. It was posted on dpreview as a reference to the press conference, apparently by someone who DOES read Japanese.

By: cameron

cameron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:19:32 +0000

i assume you don’t have this scanner or running on leopard OSX. i use the coolscan 9000 ED almost every day to scan my film negatives and i run on leopard OSX using the driver via adobe photoshop CS4. it runs just fine and doesn’t differ in the quality or speed from previous OSX ((tiger OSX 10.4)).

but there are still other scanners you can get for cheap like epson perfection V700 series ((it can scan any film negatives from 35mm negative to 8×10 transparencies. cool, huh

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:07:41 +0000

Who needs a driver? I think (even though a drive is available) I’m able to run Silverfast in all the current OS’s, which bypasses mfr drivers. Does anybody use manufacturers software? I wasn’t aware there was an advantage/reason to.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:31:19 +0000

The 10.5mm is still listed in Germany under DX lenses. I don’t know if this was always the case. However, since I bought a Nikon 2 month ago, the 10.5mm lens is listed there.

Cheers,
Jan

By: BrettA

BrettA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:28:47 +0000

That’s interesting, Dan… I was not aware. It would seem they don’t even want to increase sales if something that basic is missing. Still, I likely would not buy on unless the resolution is ~8K or more. At that level, our old slide collections would just rock on what Gates refers to as the ‘10 foot experience’. I recall a 2001 Businessweek article suggesting that wall-sized OLED screens with very high resolution would cost not much more than paint within 15 years… and it seems we’re nicely on track when you compare OLED’s past 6 years.

By: PHB

PHB — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:21:37 +0000

?? Why add AFS to a lens that pretty much focuses from 4ft to infinity???

Oh the D60 of course.

Would not have been a priority for me. But probably indicates that there is going to be an AF-AFS upgrade across the whole model line in the short term. Now they have the design problem solved in the AFS 50mm they can probably apply AFS to all their primes.

By: Dan Wells

Dan Wells — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:19:30 +0000

The biggest problem with the scanners isn’t the hardware, but the outdated (and no longer being updated) driver software… They still don’t have the driver running under Leopard (or I assume, Vista…) Even the same scanners with a modern driver would increase sales….

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:15:59 +0000

You would think Nikon would be nice and say “we will have a press conference for a new product(s) on xx/xx/xxxx. We apologize for the confusion”

That would be nice. Oh well, we will just have to wait and practice our patience. Not so easy of course.

By: cameron

cameron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:12:02 +0000

wow, is it the first time somebody says coolscan ED 9000 is discontinued today? it’ve been discontinued for 3 years now… funny

nada, no AF-S fisheye lens is coming because 16mm f/2.8D AF have a new teammate that is the same, 10.5mm f/2.8G AF, both with screwdriver AF

By: BrettA

BrettA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:57:20 +0000

Re Potential CoolScan Discontinuation…

Sent To Dealer Yesterday (edited): If Nikon updated their scanners to a reasonable resolution – at least twice the current – that it would sell. I did a project in 2001 looking at scanners (and much more), which showed just how inadequate 4,000 dpi was with a good Kodachrome image and combined with upcoming display technologies and even current multi-terabyte disks, I submit that we could do with FAR better scanners now. I can’t speak for the broad population, but the long term shooter I know best agrees and says there’s no question that he and many others would buy. Perhaps the main reason manufacturers of similar scanner no longer make them is that they never were capable of capturing high quality images at appropriately high resolution – and Kodak agreed with this assessment.

If I recall, Nikon scanners have been able to do 4K dpi scans for over a decade (before appropriately priced high quality storage and even the promise of appropriate displays), yet technology in all related fields has seen incredible gains. If a ‘better’ Nikon scanner ever comes out, I know that I’d buy. I suggest that not much more than sensor and speed improvements are needed and it could thus be an upgrade.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:33:03 +0000

Nikon’s GPS-1 is yet to be manufactured (as some people have pointed out)
Nikon Solutions Expo still lists opportunities to try out the D700 and D90 as “new” products.

Just been looking at Nikon’s DSLR timeline on Wikipedia:

D2X – lasted 7 quarters; replaced by
D2Xs – lasted 6 quarters; replaced by
D3 – now in it’s 5th quarter

As the speed of technology development increases, we can expect the rate of new cameras to increase (we see a similar trend for the D100-D200-D300 graph), so either now or next March would be a good time to release an updated D3.