Comments on: Groundbreaking Nikon news = code name Nikon VP650

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:40:41 +0000

Once upon a time, Nikon made excellent point and shoots, I loved my CP990, but that was 9 years ago. Now, they just put their name on one manufactured under contract by someone else. They are just a commodity item without the level of quality they once had. Of course, that CP990 cost $1000 when it first came out.

When they actually build a camera in their own factories, they do it right.

By: Mikeg76

Mikeg76 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:54:29 +0000

Its groundbreaking because no other camera has it yet. I’m sure that within a year all of them will though, similar to the video fiasco.

By: cra

cra — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:07 +0000

By the way. The article mentioned is the editorial on page 3 (1: front, 2: advertsing, 3: editorial) and so pretty important.

By: cra

cra — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:41:57 +0000

I just send the Admin the pdf of the article in question. Is a download 10x only link, so I guess he’ll move the pdf’s to his server before posting the link…

By: Daf

Daf — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:34:46 +0000

Ah – see it’s already mentioned in the item. Sorry didn’t finish reading it.

By: Daf

Daf — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:18:50 +0000

Nokia (+ rumored Apple) have been talking about including a projector in their phones for a while.

Would probably be fun to have a projector to show photos to your friends if it’s any good. But I wouldn’t call it groundbreaking per-se.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:02:08 +0000

booooooooooooooooring!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:26:15 +0000

NR Admin, I checked you price watch page, and you’re saying that a D4000 is expected soon.

Could this be the “ground-breaking” news?

By: The D700x, yes.

The D700x, yes. — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:13:34 +0000

Honestly, what is so exciting or groundbreaking if this news is true?
It says: “This camera would be a compact camera with a LED projector that could project up to 8×12 images in good quality in the dark.”.
Sorry, but I do not find it groundbreaking or even exciting. Yes, new, but groundbreaking is, for me at least, too much because people would still rather view their photos on a computer instead of having them projected on a wall in the dark. On top of that, they already can view their photos on the back of their cameras and therefore they would still be better off doing that than viewing them in the dark on a wall.

I would be much more excited with a D700x with 24.5MP and HD video at 1080p at $3000. That would be really exciting and, in many ways, groundbreaking (for me at least!).

By: Gra

Gra — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:06:31 +0000

Yeah Niko.

Ken Rockwell would use it, cos he doesn’t shoot digital anymore…

By: STJ

STJ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:13:28 +0000

This I believe that a projector kind of equalts to the build-in toaster we all need …
How earth scattering groundbreaking! How does Nikon do this – it must be a thought similar to “Hey guys – we cannot really make small cameras that work, so how about putting in a lot of gadgets in them and we can claim we’re the first to do it?” As said above we’ll have a pho.. I mean camera with GPS, telephone, projector, wireless, printer etc etc. The most ground-breaking Nikon could do would be to make a small camera we would actually buy! They can make superb DSLR’s – how come compacts are so hard????

By: NikoDoby

NikoDoby — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:09:45 +0000

What if Nikon includes a carousel adapter with the VP650 so you can project your film slides as well as your powerpointing skills. Wouldn’t that be ground breaking enough for everyone?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:02:05 +0000

I also hope it has a built-in phone… I don’t want to have to carry a phone and a dSLR, i hope they can just merge the two, I want a GPS inside it (I know that’s not exactly a new idea), I still want that projector, camcorder, bedside alarm clock, iPod, fax machine, it needs to send photos and videos straight to Twitter and Facebook, it needs a built-in printer. It needs to communicate with other dSLRs and print out other peoples photos. Oh heck, no matter what silly stuff I can think of… it’s all coming in future dSLRs, every device is being merged in to one. Now, where can I buy fast lenses for my iPhone?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:31:18 +0000

LOL

By: grumps

grumps — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:04:06 +0000

Just for Fun!
Camera:
How about a complete water proof (for scuba) D700 up with completely silent shutter (for weddings and film). I’m game (since I mentioned it), anyone else?
Lenses:
85mm f/1.2 G, VRII AF-S Nano coating (Don’t yawn, you know who you are!)
200mm f2.8 G, Macro, VRII AF-S Nano coating

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:48:56 +0000

you got this all wrong! not video project!

it’s a special nikon designed for our VICE PRESIDENT of USA!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:47:27 +0000

to be honest I think that’s the only use.

Is the projector new and cool, yes.

Does it have a purpose? I don’t think so. realistically everyone who cares about outputting it to something besides facebook has a television, mosyt likely HD and most likely bigger than 14 inches diagonal. So include a HDMI cable thats a few feet long and rolls back into the camera when not being used, that would be nice, instead of buying and carrying (or forgetting) an HDMI cable of your own.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:44:03 +0000

lenses please…

By: YUEN

YUEN — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:39:33 +0000

apart from 650 , I also heard there is a 550 also !

By: HDZ

HDZ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:35:15 +0000

World first again!! I LOVE NIKON!!!