Comments on: Rumor: Nikon D4 coming soon

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:54:44 +0000

It would be nice to see a humanly priced full frame camera, maybe around 3,000 or 4,000 tops that would have a bit more megapixel power like 14 to 16 megapixels..

thats my dream.

any words on anything like it?

By: esplak

esplak — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:53:51 +0000

The introduction of D700X with 24MP and 5D price will render D3 obsolete. So a D4 before or just after the D700X must not be ruled out. Actually I believe that it will be before, because it will pack even more goodies than a sensor upgrade, to justify the pro designation.

By: Image

Image — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:55:39 +0000

Camera – “no markings or logo” on body nor on the detachable finder(s)
– grip had flash of red, so “I assume” Nikon
– grip & fire bottom not Canon looking at all
– grip & fire botton more like D3 but different no 2 other buttons
– another finder looking item but much larger – never attached
to camera body while I was there – “I assume” was finder
– did not see back of body so “I assume” it was digital
– did not look like an F4-F5 with removable prism – loved my F4
– I was “not” invited over to view the camera
– I assumed it was Nikon, thats why I posted here
– might have been unmarked beta of RED’s DSLR – no idea

A porno movie about a camera?
What kinda stuff do you guys watch?
.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:11:51 +0000

WOW REALLY!? Dude it’s a Nikon picture with a photoshop D4 on it, its 99% oblivious (so oblivious the logo is fake and meant to be a web banner/logo that the admin didn’t bother stating it).

By: Ronan

Ronan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:10:23 +0000

Then i’m a happy loser. My D700 takes sharper images than any 1dsmkIII. Tested and proven.

The only reason Canon has more MP is because their chips aren’t as good as Nikon/Sony, and even with adding MP, Nikon still comes up on top.

What keeps Canon in business (in the pro photo area)? Their primes and AF (which is debatable, my old D300 focus better in the dark than my buddies 1Ds MKIII).

By: Willis

Willis — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:02:48 +0000

It works better for computers. You often will want to sort your files by month, but probably not day.

Not saying that’s why we do it. But for me it is helpful.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:32:59 +0000

I have similar dreams too – was it a dream?

By: NikoRyan

NikoRyan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:42:00 +0000

Yep, confirmed. You are right on.

By: blue

blue — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:47:47 +0000

I think this is a bad photoshop. See, how the lines in the 4 are straight, even though the surface is curved and shot has been taken at an angle. Moreover it is not parallel to “Nikon”. I think the “D 4″ logo is fake.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:32:58 +0000

A Sunday’s launch should be silly

By: Stefan Tell

Stefan Tell — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:55:01 +0000

I’m still very happy with my D700, but it is of course interesting to see what lies ahead.

What would be even more interesting would be to know how rumors like this about coming products impact the sales today. I was about to buy a 70-200 recently but changed my plans when I read about the new version coming out later this year (I’m in no hurry right now). And that was not even a rumor, just a very long time between the news and the day you can actually buy the stuff. It is a bit boring, I think.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:31:51 +0000

Who is switching the date? Most of the world? lol maybe it’s just the US and some other minor countries
Just kidding

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:22:48 +0000

Well, yes, mm/dd/yyyy is just plain weird.

I can understand dd/mm/yyyy and yyyy/mm/dd, but why on earth would mm/dd/yyyy make sense to anyone???

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:58:59 +0000

What about sony’s backlit CMOS sensors? Isn’t that supposed to be a jump in technology, in terms of High ISO performance? And given the fact that the a900 has worse performance than a D3x, and sony claims 2 times -or was it stops- better low light performance, we can well expect a huge difference even in higher MP’s

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:55:26 +0000

1Dm4 I hope, or even 1DSm4

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:51:03 +0000

1D(s)m4?

By: getanalogue

getanalogue — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:35:51 +0000

folks, Nikon is the looser! Across the street from my office, there is the photo store where I am buying most of my equipment. Everytime I am going in, there are people exchanging their Leica or Nikon equipment into Canon’s 5D MkII. Even staff themselves told me that they bought Canon 5D MkII because they are tired of waiting for a Nikon D 700x. Nikon lost already huge market share in this class and will continue to loose more and more the longer they wait with D 700x launch. They will be dead next year springtime, at least in the most profitable Pro Camera market segement. They forgot that innpovation cycles are getting shorter and shorter.

By: Helm

Helm — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:13:55 +0000

D4 with 18MP FX sensor in new sony exmor design – a little upgrade…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:12:57 +0000

Well, there’s plenty of space to the D90 and the D300, when stores run out ouf the D300, the D300s can take its place, and the D700 can take the place of the D300s, price wise.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:45:14 +0000

Sony will launch their camera with the Exmor R version of the 24.5 mp sensor any day now. Exmor R is said to better the old chip by more than 1 stop and have significantly faster data readout, so there definitely *is* a technological development that will seriously change the situation for the D3x. But there’s one thing that is worrying: Sony is expected to launch the APS-C sensor with Exmor R technology and slightly higher resolution at the same time, so one would have expected the D300s to feature this new sensor if Sony was willing to sell Exmor R sensors to Nikon at the time being. Remember that the A900 had the 24.6 mp chip before Nikon launched the D3x. If Nikon has to wait for Exmor R sensors while Sony is already selling Exmor R based cameras at their usual discount prices, Nikon has a serious problem IMHO, unless they have sourced or designed a new sensor of their own, i.e. a successor to the very good and proven sensor used in the D3/D700.

Apart from sensors, there are many other areas where there’s rooms for significant improvement for a potential D4 such as more focus points distributed over a larger area of the frame, a new higher resolution RGB sensor, a larger display and many more.