Wow, does that mean the camera on the roof is medium format now?

We all ready got COOLPIX announcements this month RRRoger. The D700 will be updated this year at the latest by the end of summer. I think the D90 replacement will show up first. It's already being discounted pretty heavily and the D700 is being packaged with other gear, like a free SB900, in some places. That means Nikon is trying to clear out stock to make room for the new model.

The latest on this canon announcement is that it's going to be the 30 plus megapixel 1DsMk4. Very strange schedule since they could be using it at the Olympics. Why not announce it before the games start and then have photographers freely use preproduction models at the games?

I have to admit I like canon's marketing at the Olympics :^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWShDa_KfSI&feature=player_embedded

Damn it Nikon why can't you be this creative?! Nooo you have to give us those stupid Ashton Kutcher ads instead!

That's tough to believe - the 16-35/4 and 24 1.4 (along with the 70-200 VR2) are all squarely aimed at the expanding FX base for Nikon; I suspect an update this summer/fall (if not sooner) for the D700. . . .the D4 will probably roll out 2011 Summer, but not the D700s (unless Nikon REALLY mucks up the release). . .

History tells us to expect nothing but more CoolPixs.

With a shortage of D3s and an overpriced Sony Sensor in the D3x.
I no longer have much hope for a D700s or x.

It is more likely that we will see a completely new camera, and probably not untill 2011.

Hopefully Nikon will take advantage of Canon not being at Pma, and introduce something good of a camera and not just a Grammy roadshow.

The D700 was announced in July of 2008. The first "real" leaks started coming out in early June. So the new D800/900 will probably follow the same route. The D90 came out in August of that year too but I don't think Nikon can afford to wait until the end of summer to replace it. Summer months are when people go on vacation and buy new cameras to take with them.

when was the D700 announced in 2008? Was it fall? I suspect we'll get a fall announcement for that. . .esp let the D3s shine at the Vancoucer games, etc. . .

I'll have to say Nikon's roll out, though sometimes confusing, is pretty spot on with timing and whetting the market. . .

A D7000 announcement would be great, the D90 was such an amazing hit and it's SO CHEAP right now (found it for $767 at abesofmaine.com), that one would be foolish NOT to get it if you are just getting into photography. . .

The replacement will reset it back up to $1100 range. . .

That's what's so interesting about this "surprise" announcement. It's only 4 days away and people are barely hearing about it.

It will be interesting to see what Canon releases. I think if Nikon was going to have a press event sometime in the next week or so we'd have heard about it by now.

DigitalRev (a "Hong Kong based online photographic equipment provider") have just been invited to "yet another canon product release on 23rd Feb." Could this mean Nikon will make an announcement next week or the week after too?!! Hmm very interesting.

Though in all honesty it seems this canon "surprise" announcement will either be the new 60D or some lenses. If it is the 60D I'd be hopeful Nikon could also unveil the D7000 (D90 replacement)? Not likely a D700 replacement.