It’s gonna be the new 28 MP Nikon D10 (in red font), available next year.

Don’t miss it!

Whats the big deal? Well Indie cinematographers love the 5DMII and to some extent the D90 as well. That’s the big deal, its a fast growing market.

With the 5DMII you can record for 30mins in HD. That’s more than “5 or so minutes” you might think it can do.

If you’re making a movie, or a music video most of your scenes are between 3 and 15 *seconds*. Rarely in cinematography is there a continuous shoot that last longer than 6 or 7 minutes (mostly found in long movies). Even then, you are covered by 30mins.

A lot of people get into photography because cinematography is just too expensive. Whatever your photo gear $$ is, multiply that times 5 to 10 depending on what kind of footage you want to do. $20,000-30,000…try $120,000.

Nikon is making a very, very smart move with video on DSLR. If they don’t, eventually the competition will swallow them up. But that’s not going to happen because every DSLR they produce from now on will most likely have video.

Although I’m not sure about the accuracy of the 5D Mk II statement. My friend has one and we worked with his files and they upres’d and printed out just fine. Also the fact of the matter is you’re talking about a 21MP image vs. our current 12mp, if you upres that twice you’re talking 42MP!!

I’m sorry, I think Nikon is better but lets be reasonable.

I’d also like to say that VIDEO is NOT a bad thing. A lot of posters on here make it sound like a gimmick. Have you seen whats been done with the 5DII and 7D…Trust me, it is no F*ing gimmick. That stuff looks like Super16 film at 1/100th the cost sans telecine-ing.

When Video becomes more available to us Nikon users, all the ney-sayers will become die-hard about it. “Oh yea, its great being able to capture video along with my photos” hahaha. Its a case of “whatever we don’t have, is not worth having” mentality…D90 doesn’t count nor does it have what it takes.

From Rob Galbraith’s web site:
“While it’s widely known that Nikon uses sensors designed by Sony in most of its digital SLRs, the D3′s sensor is an original Nikon design. The only other digital SLR models to also feature a sensor created by Nikon are the D2H and D2Hs, and as with those models, Nikon isn’t revealing their manufacturing partner.”

So tell me, what’s wrong with the decade-old prime lenses?

any aesthetic changes?

Oh wait, that roadmap myth has been thoroughly debunked.

Those whining about the “lack” of new Nikon bodies just remember that Nikon and Canon are off cycle. Next year, when the D400 and others are announced, Canon won’t be announcing anything too new. That’s the theory, anyway.