Comments on: What is this camera?

By: Cagra

Cagra — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:43:02 +0000

or the actor in the commercial..

By: warprints

warprints — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:07:28 +0000

Joe – it may be a fake, but I think your reasoning is off. I don’t agree with any of your 5 issues.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:44:40 +0000

That’s definitively a ex-Yugoslav name.

By: savvo

savvo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:23:10 +0000

I think the ‘obvious’ that you’re missing is: presumably we’re supposed to think this is some top-secret as-yet unreleased camera model? Such a camera is only going to find its way into the hands of people who know something about photography. If such a person wants to leak a photo of this camera they aren’t going to deliberately shoot it in a dark room against a bright window light.

By: GR

GR — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:03:55 +0000

check some more pics here
http://www.engadget.com/photos/mystery-nikon/1473999/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:48:19 +0000

Keep it up guys, this was hilarious reading.

By: Heavok

Heavok — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:28:27 +0000

Can’t be the Panasonic FZ50. Look at the cover-lash on the left side of the cam. The Panasonic FZ50 hasn’t got one.

By: Nikkorian

Nikkorian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:22:01 +0000

I’m with you. This IS the D5000 we’ve been seeing before.

By: spam

spam — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:21:02 +0000

Why would anyone post a picture like that except to start a rumor? If I got to try a new Nikon I’d take a good “product shot” and publish, not a out of focus underexposed shot. Btw, the Panasonic FZ50 has teh LCD hinged like that.

By: Heavok

Heavok — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:19:06 +0000

If you have a look on the left side of the cam, you can see the typical lash from the cover of the D60′s (D5000′s) micro usb-port. Even the shape on the bottom is typical D60 style.
Anyways the “big” viewfinder seems to be quite typical if you compare it to this spy shot. Link: http://nikonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dbk_0662.jpg. Here the viewfinder appears to be quite odd compared to a D60′s (btw, the seem to have integrated a new eye-piece).

By: rob

rob — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:15:52 +0000

I expect that what has happened is that this guy has stolen a D??? from the photo shoot the other day. Thats why he is in a bedroom taking snaps.

Also I think that picture was taken in Croatia, maybe Dubrovnik. The shades are very common in that part of the world, as are the oversized radiators.

Maybe a D400 with a reversable screen, so you can turn it over so you cant see the screen. I would like that.

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:41:12 +0000

I think the viewfinder looks big because the camera is small.

See the D60 from behind, it looks very similar:
http://nikon.de/product/de_DE/views/1544/broad/resources/4aa/EQR0wVkEik~CSd38AHbxRCaa4bMa0DnI/_rgCYZ0bpI20ZUVlF2Lplqw9em~uV.jpg.html

except for the swievel-display.

By: Macindows

Macindows — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:27:05 +0000

Aaand Mr. Blurrycam did it again!

Why on earth did the guy who shot the photo upload this blurred version instead of “maybe” hitting the shutter button again to refocus and use a flash?? Wouldn’t have cost him too much time would it?

For me this is the very same camera as the one from a few days ago! Just blurry and dark!

By: ptooey

ptooey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:15:33 +0000

Looks legit to me.
What’s the deal with the articulating hinge at the bottom anyway? Does Canon/Olympus/Panasonic pay some license or something that allows them to have it on the left side? I’ve been waiting for Nikon to release an SLR with the flip out screen for years– ever since the Coolpix 5000 and 8700/8800 this has been on my wishlist, but for crying out loud, hinge at bottom sux.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:10:12 +0000

Okay, so I’m 6’5″ and sometimes I just can’t comfortably get low enough. I can crouch and kneel, but my body isn’t going to get any smaller. I like this because I can hold the camera low and compose my shot. I kind of see it as the modern version of the waist level view screen that a lot of medium formats have.

By: Joe R

Joe R — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:11:58 +0000

I vote fake.

1) Liveview image doesn’t seem to be the same as what’s in front of the camera. The Liveview has somethings green on the right of the window.

2) The strap doesn’t seem to be hanging straight down. Non-linear gravity?

3) Fill light on the inside of the hand that didn’t hit the camera? Fancy trickery.

4) The ghosting on the hand- on the top of the wrist where the background window frame intersects it- looks unnatural.

5) The hot shoe plug. Don’t most of the plastic caps that cover the hot shoe sit flush with it, not stick up as in the photo.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:24:53 +0000

The biggest advantage of a flip screen is when working in difficult positions, like having the camera low to the ground or high up above a crowd.

When it is low to the ground on a small tripod, you’ll view it from the top and the screen is in a 90 degrees angle pointing out. I dont think it will be in the way of the tripod. The same is for high up, but then the LCD is turned 180 gedrees around its axis.
The position it is in on the image is utterly useless as it is in its normal plane, but 2 inch lower.

I still say it has it use from time to time.

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:17:36 +0000

on the picture above the flip screen seems to be mounted on the very bottom of the camera like screwed into the tripod mount. if you fold that screen to the camera body it seems to leave a “bump” on the bottom of the camera, an uneven bottom side.

By: MalejJarda

MalejJarda — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:14:31 +0000

This guy is from Belgrade, Serbia

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:13:01 +0000

That would only be true if the LCD and the sensor are in the same plane. Since the LCD articulates,it is very well possible for the lines not to be parallel.