The first underwater housing prototypes for Nikon D800 and D4 cameras are already out and they look slick. I was told that the Hugyfot housing for D800 will cost “only” €2,850 including VAT (around $3,700). Hugyfot showed also those 3D rendering for the D4 housing at the London Dive Show:
This guest post describes another (see also this post) Wi-Fi solution for Nikon D4 by Nick O’Donnell: Like most of you I love spending a boat load of money on things I won’t be using very much. Yeah, right. The Nikon D4 is one heck of a camera with seemingly every capability the could stuff into [...]
This is a quick high ISO comparison between the Nikon D3 and D4 cameras – the first image above is the original (click for larger view):
I reported this rumor over a year ago – similar to previous Nikon professional cameras, the latest full frame DSLR models were also designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. You can see the D4 and D800 pages on italdesign.it.
The NR reader Voudas sent me this inexpensive alternative for controlling your NikonD4 camera through WiFi: “The idea was to connect the small VAP11G portable WiFi bridge device (available on eBay and Amazon) to the D4′s Ethernet port in order to use it through WiFi. I setup the Ethernet connection of the D4 and then used the VAP11G [...]
As previously suspected the Nikon D800 price in Norway will be going up according to this banner posted on the Norwegian online store fotovideo.no. Nikon D800 pre-orders placed before April 1st will be eligible for the current price. The D4 was not mentioned, but I believe its price will go up as well.
