Comments on: Nikon Coolpix P100, Coolpix L110 expected

By: jay

jay — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:18:27 +0000

well then, how do you explain the huge difference in image quality between D3s and D300s?

By: thedude

thedude — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:56:51 +0000

you guys seem to be as crazy as i am at the moment.
i just can’t wait read here officially about the D900, cuz i want that baaabyy

really curious what the new dslr will be like.

By: []V[] i k e

[]V[] i k e — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:40:09 +0000

+1 SLR INFO PLEASE

By: inabon

inabon — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:08:30 +0000

I’ve been waiting for a crush/freeze/water proof Nikon. Guess its not happening. Hate having to go to Olympus for that.

Before someone says “Carry your Dxx”, I can already tell you don’t ski/mountain bike/water raft. I take my D300 for serious shooting, but need one that I can throw in a pocket and forget about it, but, I do want good IQ, don’t really care about “smile detection” or any of that crap.

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:03:19 +0000

And what do you deduce that from, from the announcement that still needs to be done?

By: PHB

PHB — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:02:21 +0000

I have a degree from the Oxford University dept of Nuclear Physics.

If you want to understand how VSLI devices work, you have to understand quantum physics. It is taught as an undergrad course in any decent university.

At about 50 MP/cm^2, the dimension of the sensor cells is about two wavelengths of blue light. Macro optics no longer provide a good approximation of what is taking place at the quantum level. While it is quite possible that someone could work out how to make a finer resolution work, it is going to take a completely different design approach. And is probably pointless as the lenses are not good enough in any case.

The bottom line is that folk who yammer on about the benefits of FX over DX are mostly speaking out of their bottoms. The difference in sensor size is nowhere near enough to make a major difference in quality. The P90 with its 0.25cm^2 sensor is severely limited by the piddly size. The D300 with a sensor 16 times larger is not close to being limited.

The Nikon engineers know optics and they know quantum mechanics. I would expect that the DX series is going to be the most interesting format to use until the EVIL format gets going strongly. Sure there is going to be a niche for which the FX format is useful, the same way that there is a niche for which a 400mm f/2.8 lens makes sense.But for 90% of uses the smaller format is going to be better.

By: PHB

PHB — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:37:16 +0000

Nothing I have read suggests that Nikon’s compacts are worse than equivalently priced competitor’s models.

The difference is that apart from Canon, the competition does not have a strong play in the DSLR world. So once the price point has got up to the bottom end of the DSLRs, Nikon and Canon are focusing on the DSLR while the rest of the field try to upsell the customer to a better compact.

They do have better lenses than the competition though. The P90 lens is a 26-625. Now wouldn’t that be fun on F-Mount?

By: Bonzo

Bonzo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:07:00 +0000

What? No new lenses. C’mon!

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:02:04 +0000

Completely agree.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:54:52 +0000

sorry, I deleted it by mistake – it is back online now

By: Anony-mou

Anony-mou — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:43:08 +0000

Well, Panasonic does good cameras too.

By: Anony-mou

Anony-mou — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:41:24 +0000

Totally agree with you, especially the 15-25% zoom ratio that most people use with their photos, so they can view them in Windows photo viewer and post them on Facebook. Sad but true.

By: Anony-mou

Anony-mou — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:37:55 +0000

Actually they can, they LOVE to do that. These 2 companies are total copycats.

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:28:34 +0000

Nothing to do at the moment, and bitching about PnS cameras is fun to read

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:23:49 +0000

If only I knew what it would take, technology keeps advancing, but I am not sure if Nikon can provide an Expeed-II with a new announced camera already, let’s keep our fingers crossed for a D800 or D900 with this advance I am a gadget freak, not one that buys it, but just interested what I could have in a few years time in my D90 style body!

By: nau

nau — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:04:23 +0000

thats a looooooooooooot of posts for something like that
- ppl got nothing better to do thn refresh NikonRumors
- shows that we still care for PnS cameras

By: tim

tim — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:02:07 +0000

Agreed! But its not like its not possible.. A year old 5D MK II has 4 (almost) FPS at 21MP.. I think they could push 5-6, maybe 7 with grip at 18MP. That is fast enough for “the bet of both worlds”.

Im speculating of course. This is a best case/dream body scenario.

By: gnohz

gnohz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:54:23 +0000

I was just following what Admin said, about there being another announcement a week after

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:41:05 +0000

After all the speculations and news there will be more for sure, right?

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:35:13 +0000

Different markets, no competition between D700s and D3s

H is not equal to S, see: D2XS, I think the H just disappeared because Nikon already had a D3, which is kind of H, but without the confusion.

And D700 style body with high MP and high fps would take some serious high end engineering with the read out and throughput of data