How soon they forget.

Nikon worked with Bronica on Nikkor lenses for Bronica medium format cameras. Nikon also made (not sure if still made) larger format lenses. So they have experience with medium format and larger glass. Making a body larger is really about making a larger shutter and larger mirror box. For example: the Leica S2 is about the same size as a Nikon D3.

Loose translation of mine of a sometimes weirdly worded answer And yes, I’m French…

Is it so hard to see that I am trying to give a sensible answer to his question, and all he does is bringing up facts without telling me in what body the 18-20MP would be released!?!

Thierry, please, no hand ball next time. My Irish friends are still pissed.

Quote:
■On SWM (Silent Wave Motor): “We are currently investigating a new system for the future.”

What he was trying to say was “in-body VR.”

So I asked, in what type of body would it be released, D3 or D700?, since a D3 body is worth to pay more for, and a D700 style body will never be worth 4k-5k with “only” 18-20MP.

So he answered if I am a comedian, obviously not understanding what I just told him, and thinking to make fun of me.

So I answered back that I asked him a serious question.

All of a sudden he goes talking about D3x????, dont ask me why and started to repeat his initial question about 18-20MP

So I said again, that a D3 body IS worth it, and a D700 body isnt.

He all of a sudden begins talking in long words, trying to convince me, about something that wasnt the topic, let me try to summarize:
He starts off talking about that the inner is more important than the outer, when talking price. The D700 is supposed to be ? compatible ? with the D3, and has a different mount, D mount
And then the D3s is also compatible with aforementioned camera, still not sure how cameras are compatible, but ok, he thinks Video is worth more in price, although its mostly software. The D3x is using the same tech as a D700 (although has an obvious bigger amount of pixels, but that’s clear: 24,5 against 12MP, what else would you expect?) He starts talking more numbers, which are obvious too, put two times more pixels on a similar sized chip, and of course the pixel density is twice as high. But then he makes a mistake, saying the chip is bigger, while it is APPROX. 36x24mm (to quote DPReview for his fun: 36×23.9 another one of his mistakes, telling me it is 35.9×24 ) And then he ends with comparing apples to pears

Then I respond, he made mistakes in his DPReview quotations in his on words (I know a quote is not in own words). And I point him again to his own question, that a D700 body is not worth paying 4k-5k for and tell him he cant wrong my rights, thats just wrong

He tells me now what I just said, the wrong sizes for FX, and not understand that I responded on his words, bigger sensor, which is faulty, there are just more pixels on the same size sensor.
Then he is being childish, telling me rounding up is high school bla bla, while I said approx. so why wouldnt I be able to round up when being lazy to type it exactly. He gives me a quote I never said, and tells me do the same to myself, which is obviously not pointed at me, it was not me he quoted. He is pointing me to DPReview again, where I find exactly what he had looked up, while still not making a point and even throw in more mistakes quoting them.

C Benson, I am sorry, but life is tough, take some critism and read it sometime, maybe you will never understand, but I know I had some strong arguments you overlooked.

I hope you have a nice life being a nitpicker with your DPReview copying facts. I dont hope your brain will hurt now.

I did check the facts. Question for you, did your check facts on dpreview.com. I went to great length in finding the facts on dpreview.com. one more thing, the sensor is 35.9X24 mm CMOS chip. The D3 is 36X24 CMOS chip. You are arguing over .1 mm? Are you nuts? Why don’t you go back to high school and take high school math again. If you remember in high school, your teacher and mind, would tell the students to round up to nearest point, that means a
35.9 X 24 mm becomes 36 X 24 mm a full frame 35 mm. negative or should I say CMOS chip.

So I take it that you want 12 mega pixel camera to stay? Instead of 16,18, 20, or 24.5 mega pixel camera? Oh! I should round up 24.5 mega pixel to 25 mega pixel. What do you think I should do? Well I going to tell you buddy those days are gone. if Nikon wants to compete in the big boy sand box. They have to play with big boys toys and big ideas. If you feel that Nikon should stay at 12 mega pixel CMOS chip, you should tell the share holders at NIkon Inc. I guarantee they will kick you right out of the board room, on your butt. They are not interest in your opinion. The share holders are interested in their stock portfolios. I guarantee that is what they are doing because I know, I work for a major company in Canada.

I have one more thing to say “stop being so anal, you are going way over board on the issue”. If you think I was being anal, I was not, I trying to give the facts because you ask me for the the facts.

Good Bye and have nice life.

So saying that they have no experience with MF bodies (while reminding the interviewer that they have made MF lenses in the past) is quite a way from saying no.

What I hear him saying is it depends on how big they think the likely market is and whether that market is switching to D3X.

A D700 style body will not be worth to have a price of $4k-5k, just because of the fact that it should not cost more than the D3 series cameras, unless they are able to put ! exactly ! the same performance of the D3x in a smaller D700 style body.

The sensor of the D3x is not bigger, it only has more and so smaller pixels. The size FX is approx 36x24mm.
The D700 and D3s are even like the D300s, what a surprise, they take the AF-D AF-S, G, P, you name they can mount it. And F is the mount, not D, D stands for Distance information.
You also say the inner of the D700 is the same as the D3, well, you are missing one very big detail, the D3 has more room inside for electronics, and so outperforms the D700 in processing speed. If I am right the D700 has a single processor while the D3 even uses a double processor.

So check your facts, check how you word things, before trying to wrong my rights!