Comments on: Tomorrow. Noon (EST). PMA. Anaheim, CA. Two new DSLRs from Nikon. I hope I am right.

By: The Amazing Chen

The Amazing Chen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:02:11 +0000

I have to agree. Saying “Ohhh, Pentax ” is a bit like John Candy in Plains, Trains and Automobiles trying to bribe the hotel concierege by flashing him Casio watch.

By: Harry M

Harry M — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:52:25 +0000

Thanks for proving my point. An old optical formula, from a once-was company. No-one is offering these lenses now except Pentax because they can’t do R&D anymore.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:23:56 +0000

The last iteration is much more recent than the mid-80s. Have a look at the Photozone tests of the Pentax pancakes. Olympus and Panasonic have recently released pancakes that perform very well.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:20:39 +0000

Yours is an old-fashioned view. Learn a bit more about optics and have a look at the Photozone tests of the Pentax pancakes.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:59:26 +0000

So you are wrong about 2 new dSLRs which is not a surprise. I find Nikon Rumors often get over optimistic and overstate Nikon’s potential complete opposite from Canon Rumors which which tend to be more critical about itself, conservative about release rumours and less likely to indulge in fanboy fantasy.

This site shouldnt be predicting releases based on a hunch.

By: zoltar

zoltar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:19:58 +0000

admin, please stop putting words in my mouth that is not what i said,

zolt

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:18:36 +0000

and 10 years ago what would you say you’d be happy with then?? probably a whole lot less than what is on the market now…

By: fugue137

fugue137 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:02:49 +0000

If this isn’t on their standard release schedule (as some have said; I personally don’t know) then I’m not sure it makes sense for them to announce DSLRs. I don’t believe that the incremental improvements we’re seeing in DSLRs would justify breaking tradition–IF tradition is indeed being broken.

I agree, though, that they’re unlikely to do p&s or lenses twice (and I haven’t heard rumours of new lenses here). Much as I’d love to see a 12mm dx f/2.8 non-distorting or a dx equivalent to the 24mm f/1.4 for less than $2200 I am not holding my breath.

Given that, I’m going to mumble “EVIL”. If EVIL is already selling well, then Nikon _must_ announce that they’re working on their own in order to keep the moderately-faithful from jumping ship. Even if it’s more than 3 months out, it’s not Microsoft-grade vapourware if they have one in the works.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:33:49 +0000

9.34

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:17:54 +0000

Yet another: nothing new for now, as Nikon press link is saying

http://press.nikonusa.com/2010/02/nikon_celebrates_digital_imagi.php

By: idunno

idunno — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Its 9:04 AM!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:19:00 +0000

I’d be happy with a 18mp, 1080HD (15 record time) DX is ok for under $2,000

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:16:19 +0000

Here are the PMA trade show hours

Sunday, February 21 10:15 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

It is only 8:15 on the west coast. Ken Rockwell has probably not been in the building yet

By: frank

frank — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:14:57 +0000

with the new cool pix shooting 1080p i’m betting on a 1080p 700x.. and it needs to compete with the 5d2 price

By: frank

frank — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:12:25 +0000

My bet its a D700x @ 24 MP with 1080p video. I also think that the apparent move to VR lenses is really important to handheld video; If your shooting stills with a D3s the VR on wide lenses aren’t as important.. and most still shoots love having 2.8 our faster…. so these wide zooms rated at f4 with VR are really important to shooting video where it looks more “filmic” if you can stay close to a 180 degree shutter (around 1/50)…

so my take is nikon moves on video with a 700x… people that just bought a D3s will by this as a second body… the D3x is at the end of its life, but want be replaced for some time… nikon is about 1.5 years behind canon but in the end make a better camera…

By: Landscape Photo

Landscape Photo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:11:30 +0000

Which one do you prefer?

1- 24mp D700-type body FX with a Sony sensor same or similar to D3X (base ISO=100, 11mp DX crop, perfect at low-ISO with superb DR, good high-ISO performance but not as D700, 720p video), street price= $4000 with bundled walkabout lens

2- 18mp D700-type body FX Kodak sensor similar to Leica M9 (base ISO=200, 8mp DX crop, low light performance not short of D700, 1080p video), street price= $3000 with bundled walkabout lens

By: Fried Toast

Fried Toast — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:01:51 +0000

D90FX would not surprise me.

And it might fit the “surprise” that Nikon’s been talking about as of late.

By: Fried Toast

Fried Toast — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:00:33 +0000

Scroll up. The 4 links are live now

You can also just click on my user name to get to my photostream.

By: Steve Denton

Steve Denton — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000

Nikon just issued a press release:

NIKON CELEBRATES DIGITAL IMAGING INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP AND SHOWCASES LATEST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTSAT PMA 2010
from Nikon Press Center

Nikon Exhibit Highlights First Look of New COOLPIX Line-Up, Nikon D3S, and Legendary NIKKOR Lenses

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No new products mentioned.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:53:53 +0000

another possibility – the event today @ PMA is under closed doors and NDA, just to show the new stuff to the press and the selected few and then make it official on Tuesday