D300s apart, I'm focused on the future new version of the D90.
Give your best shot:
- when will it be available?
- what will be the new specs?
Cheers,
Nelson
New version for the D90 - what and when?
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Posted 3 years ago #
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It will be released 6months to a year after the D400. It will feature the same specs as the D400, but in a slightly smaller package and with a lower frame-rate, and a more erratic meter. It will also have a slightly lower end auto-focus system. It will probably have slightly better high ISO performance.
Oh yes... and it will have the following consumer features: Capacitive Touch Screen, Built in Geo-Tagging, Built in WiFi. Probably will have poor battery life because of these three features.
Posted 3 years ago # -
That is some wish list Willis. The D90 replacement will happen at the earliest next fall(maybe). There may not be an actual direct replacement. A new model might move up in price and features to become the equivalent to a canon 50D or a Pentax K7. Weather sealed metal body with a DX sensor. The D400 or D500 would be the last DX pro cameras or they could switch to full frame sensors. But then monkeys might have to fly out of my butt first :)
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Its a wish list, but not exactly pie in the sky. Nikon has already done all of this on one of their cameras. The D90 prototypes had built in wifi, but they scapped it. You can still do it with an eye-fi card though. All they have to do for GPS is cram the GP1 into the camera body. And I think Ashton Kutcher himself requested that they add the touch screen from the cool-pix cameras to the D90 follow up, or he refuses to be the spokes person.
Its not like I asked for anything exotic like a built in projector, or an OLED screen... ooh wait a second!
Posted 3 years ago # -
Willis, Ken Rockwell's GPS enabled D90 "prototype" was fake! Your right though, this stuff would be cool, but not just in a D90.
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Ha! I think that is where I remember it from. None the less, the eye-fi guys have been doing it for a few years now. With all the advances that have been made in tethered shooting, its only a matter of time before one of the big guys develops a wireless solution. My money says Nikon figures it out before Cannon.
I think that as digital continues to mature, you will see the camera manufactureers start to differentiate the models by function rather than features. You can start to see it with the D3 vs. D3x. One belongs in the studio, and one is better suited for sports and photojournalism.
Imagine the camera you could build if you didn't have to worry about portability and power consumption! You could add all kinds of crazy stuff. What if you wanted to make a SLR that was strictly for video (Well OK, it wouldn't be a SLR at that point, because you would have to compose through live view). Imagine how fun it would be to shoot with a 6mp version of the D700 that had an extra stop of ISO. Or an ultra-rugged D3 built to stand up to the abuse of shooting in the elements
I think we are near the upper limit of what 35mm has to offer us in terms of performance & resolution. But we are nowhere near reaching max potential in terms of useability and features. The good news is that with the exception of auto-focus, Nikon has always been at the fore-front when it comes to the gee-whiz stuff.
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Yeah, I don't expect a D90 replacement anytime this year. It's a pretty darn new camera. It would probably see a couple firmware updates beforehand.
Slightly off topic, but is the D3 sold alongside the D3x? They're not really comparable to each other right? The D3x doesn't replace the D3, am I correct?
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Both are still in production.
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