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ThePhantom

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OK - here's my prediction for the announcement on the 19th:

It's either:

A. The rumored Nikon D3200 with the 24.2 Megapixel DX sensor, which is going to kick Canon's ass pretty hard, and/or....

B. The "D4x", to replace the D3x, which I predict will come with the D800's 36.3 Megapixel sensor AND (given what Canon has been up to with their non-4K C300 with the 4K sensor and their new C500 coming with real 4K and Sony bringing on 4K too...) I expect it to do 4K video and come in around $10K!

Nikon is on a roll and appears to be seriously poised to do to Canon what Canon did to them in the 80s and 90s - out technology them. The D4, D800 and D3200 are spectacular examples. I fully expect the D4x to set a new high water mark by a wide margin.

Nikon, unlike Canon, announces things when they start production and they are almost ready to ship, rather than when they are mere twinklings in their engineers' eyes; to try to stop the bleeding, or perhaps to improve the balance sheet by booking pre-orders as revenue - or both. Their latest announcements are cases in point - they expect the C500 and EOS C to be ready by the end of the year. EOS 1DX pre-order victims who signed up in October are still waiting.... Pretty hard to respect a company that does that to their customers (not to mention their lame 1 yr warranty on cameras and lenses!)

OK - I'm done ranting...

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msmoto

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D3200, D400 soon to follow

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spraynpray

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DX.

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dormant

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I want them to announce that my D800E has shipped.

Sorry, is that a troll?

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El_Pickerel

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I'd be interested in seeing what a D7100 or D400 or anything else introduced between the D7000 and D800 has to offer. Not quite so motivated to get a used D300s or D700 with the promises of fancy stuff a-comin'

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ThePhantom said:

B. The "D4x", to replace the D3x, which I predict will come with the D800's 36.3 Megapixel sensor AND (given what Canon has been up to with their non-4K C300 with the 4K sensor and their new C500 coming with real 4K and Sony bringing on 4K too...) I expect it to do 4K video and come in around $10K!

Not a chance in hell on "B". 1. s,x,h,etc are upgrades - The D4 just started shipping. These are at least 2 years off. 2. The D800 replaced the "X" series & the D700.

I am just hoping a D400 comes with the 3200. This just sucks sitting in limbo and I don't have much more time before I need to commit to something for this year. I wanted to throw it on last years taxes.

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Predictions....

DX:

D3200, D5200, D7100 (or just skip it and go D7200) ... what else?

FX:

At least one new (cheap?) FX lens ... is there any way to combine "FX" and "cheap" somehow? No? Apart from used or film, right now, I thought not.

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Nikoner

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What they should announce:

Firmware update for the D800/E
Firing of their supply chain manager & Public Relations Manager

What they will announce:

DX body
FX Lens
Few more Cool(aid)pix's

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Nikoner said:
What they should announce:

Firmware update for the D800/E
Firing of their supply chain manager & Public Relations Manager

What they will announce:

DX body
FX Lens
Few more Cool(aid)pix's

What's wrong with the D800's firmware?

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Regulator75

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D400 / D7100 please.

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TaoTeJared

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D400/D3200 - possibly the D5200

9mths away from any D7100 talk - The two entry level bodies always get released first. Historically it has been the D400 - D3200 - D5200 - D7100 - D4s - D3300 - D5300/D7200 - D5 and we go through it all over again.

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shawnino

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Suppose the D400 is announced. Any guesses on supply v. demand three months from now?

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PB PM

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I predict the following will happen on the 19th; Nikon will announce the sale of it's camera division to... Canon. The first hybrid DX/EF-S camera (interchangeable lens mounts) will be the Canikon 3200D, followed by the D400D and AF-USM 28mm f1.8H.

Oh wait, reality check. D3200, and wireless transmitter. DX 16-85mm F4G VR and DX 18-300mm F3.5-5.6G VR. Thanks, have a nice day.

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bjrichus

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PB PM said:
I predict the following will happen on the 19th; Nikon will announce the sale of it's camera division to... Canon.

Nope. Sold to Fuji.

As Fujikon already exists, is Nifuji rude in Japanese?

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bjrichus

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Nikoner said:
What they should announce:

Firmware update for the D800/E
Firing of their supply chain manager & Public Relations Manager

I think those with D800 issues (as per other threads) would agree about the need for a firmware update, but that would just be an added extra as the D3200 is supposed to be the headline item for the 19th (according to our admin that is)...

I also think we could all agree with the need to fire a number of supply chain and PR people...

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PB PM

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Rant:

This isn't a supply chain or PR problem, its the, "Its new! Its bigger! Its better! We must have it now!" mentality that people have now days. What people really seem to want is for Nikon to build an extra plant or two just so they can build more FX cameras for launch periods. Thom Hogan talked about this very issue, and commented that Nikon would be silly to build an extra plant or two just for the strong demand when new products are released. Why, because during the 2-3 years between new models those factories would sit unused. That doesn't look good on the finical books, nor sit well with stockholders. At the end of the day it would actually hurt customers more than help them, since Nikon would be putting money into maintaining unused buildings rather than R&D.

In other words, people need to get over themselves and be a little more patient.

Rant over.

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shawnino

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@PBPM:

no, all people really want is to not get line-jumped by NPS members and for Nikon to act a little bit more responsibly in allocating production resources. It's pretty poor on Nikon's part to announce a launch date if they can't possibly meet up with demand on that date.

I'm not suggesting Nikon delay launch, but would it have killed them to soft-launch it, rather than get people's hopes up by naming a date in March, and thereby implying a majority of orders could be met that day? I doubt it.

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PB PM

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Given that the same thing happened after the announcements of the D200, D300, D3, D700, D90, D7000... etc etc. why is anyone surprised by the lack of D800 availability? Everyone knows that Nikon is a much smaller company than Canon, they simply lack the ability to meet the demand of pre-orders (which Nikon, technically never authorized). They have supply problems under normal shipment seasons, so the fact that they are well behind on D4 and D800 bodies is not unusual.

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msmoto

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I think there is a rather significant number of people on this thread who get obsessed about cameras.... geez, I was at an event as a spectator today and NASCAR would not allow me to bring my camera in.... Too Large! ....but they had all these folks running around with these NPS neck straps... and they had a D700 on one shoulder and what was a D3or4 on the other.

See how obsessed we can get.... But, I am with Tao on the D whatever argument. If anyone notices, Tao has the data which supports the time frame of NIKON releases....so...

I still like the D3200/D400 following soon thereafter

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bjrichus

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msmoto said:
I was at an event as a spectator today and NASCAR

Were you in Texas today? TMS is where it's at for NASCAR right now...

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TaoTeJared said:
Not a chance in hell on "B". 1. s,x,h,etc are upgrades - The D4 just started shipping. These are at least 2 years off. 2. The D800 replaced the "X" series & the D700.

I am just hoping a D400 comes with the 3200. This just sucks sitting in limbo and I don't have much more time before I need to commit to something for this year. I wanted to throw it on last years taxes.

The price of high performance video cameras seems to be trending down, not up. Canon got a shock when some cameras were announced shortly after theirs which severely undercut them on price. There is another new one revealed at NAB which also undercuts Canon's price, and uses Canon lenses as well.

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Willis

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Hopefully, they announce a new pre-order system that actually works, or perhaps a new plant opening.

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Ronin.1

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Willis said:
Hopefully, they announce a new pre-order system that actually works, or perhaps a new plant opening.

The pre-order system is a creation of the vendors, not Nikon. One of the problems with pre-orders is that customers will place multiple orders with no intention of actually purchasing anything other than the first one to deliver which makes it very difficult for Nikon to know what the actual demand is and their production capacity is limited in any event.

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TaoTeJared

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Willis said:
Hopefully, they announce a new pre-order system that actually works, or perhaps a new plant opening.

A new DX plant should be opening it's doors if it hasn't already done so in China. Construction started on that almost a year ago. When the floods hit Thailand I saw Nikon press releases that it was going to open in the 2nd quarter this year.

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msmoto

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bjrichus said:
Were you in Texas today? TMS is where it's at for NASCAR right now...

Nope, I was at Rockingham Motor Speedway where the NASCAR trucks have returned after about 8 years. This is the first time NASCAR has returned to a track they abandoned but it appears more of this will happen as the economy takes its toll on car racing.

The problem is that they will not allow any dimension of a case over 14 inches (35.6 cm) and this means the 400 f/2.8 can not get in...body and lens are much larger than that.

I will not be in Texas until fall. Then in Houston, the Woodlands, and possibly San Antonio.

Meanwhile, i am headed for Atlanta and will come back with some photos... I hope. And as far as the announcement.....where is the D400?

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