If the admins sources are correct, and the D3S will push ISO to 100k, I believe that the few Canon PJ that didn’t make the jump with the D3/D700 will finally do so.

About the pixel hype? Are 24mp nice? Sure, no doubt. My bet is that it won’t be that long until we see a 50mp 35mm format sensor.

I just believe that the majority of the people that are screaming for a “low cost” 24mp body, don’t understand that more pixel makes their pictures bigger, not better. And just because they got accepted at a stock site with a handful of pictures, they think they have to submit their pictures as big as possible. But the truth is that most pictures end up with less than 6mp.
Though instead of throwing money towards “bigger” files, more glass and light (and at almost no point you have enough of either of them) will actually open the door for getting better pictures.

If those extra MPs are so bad and not heatlhy for the photographer then it cannot cost more than the 12MP.

To sum up, I think this expo in Russia cannot be held in a better location because Nikon is playing Russian Rulette … it will be interesting to see how many users they will loose during the holiday season …

Without a 24mp camera, my cat photo skills just cannot come through with a dinky 12mp camera (or film for that matter)–I NEED to see every darn whisker at 200x.

If you, Nikon, do not release this camera within the next 15 minutes, I will immediately divest myself all my Nikon gear (even my collector’s Nikon baseball cap signed by Ashton K.) for Canon gear, and you’ll be forever sorry…. How do you like that, Nikon–are you scared?? You should be …..

Soap writes: “You mean the D300s?”

Tony writes back: “Hoping to get those features at a D90 price”.

So Tony, where have you been? There are many levels of Nikon DSLRs. They do that so that amateurs can get a camera they can afford while pros can get all the features they want. It is a question that gets asked a lot, but is really meaningless. It is the same question of people asking for a full frame D300, which of course is a D700. Or a D700 in a pro body, which is a D3. You just don’t get the features without paying the price. I think the normal example is someone asking for a Ferrari for the price of a Ford Escort, it just doesn’t happen. Personally I think it is great that Nikon trickles down features and has set product lines where those features are. Dx for pro body, Dx00 for heavy amateur (and some pro use), Dx0 (where x greater or equal 7) for plastic trickle down from the higher levels for serious shooting in a plastic body, Dx0 and Dx000 (where x less than or equal 6) for amateur plastic that still works great but loses features.

So really Nikon releases 4 distinct product lines in camera bodies and at least 3 distinct lines in lenses which also split features and build with cost. Sure, there is trickle down, but not so much as to blur the lines they have set. At some point full frame will hit the plastic fantastic bodies like the D90 level of camera (long way away), and it will have similar specs to the D90 as far as frame rate and weather sealing. Farther than that, it will hit the Dx000 level, again crippled a little more. That is just how Nikon works.

Me? Sure, I am hoping for a D3 update, but if not, well it is not the end of the world. Give me something I can use and heck, I will be happy. Give me nothing I can use and all my cameras still work fine today (except my D2Hs that is STILL in Melville getting fixed).

Really it comes down to buying at the level you can afford and using that gear up to its capabilities. Anyone with a good eye can get great shots from a D40. That does bring up a good point though… When you browse sample photos taken with one of the high end bodies, they always seem better. That is simply because the people that have the high end bodies usually have a really good eye for things like exposure and composition. THAT is why the pictures look better on sites like pbase or flicker when taken with high end stuff, it is not the gear, it is the photographer.