where there’s smoke there’s fire

I will have to stick behind my previous post: I am predicting that my next post on this blog will be the official Nikon D5000 press release (expected today around 11 pm US Eastern time). I hope I am right. This time I feel 95% confident – this is not a scientific prediction, just a gut feeling and some astrology 🙂

Come back tomorrow:

1. To read again all the D5000 comments from today – it will be hilarious either way, with or without the D5000.
2. To see if the Nikon D5000 is released.
3. To complain about missing D5000 functionality.
4. To bitch about (or praise) NikonRumors.com.
5. To get the first pre-order options (pre-orders are always first–come, first–served).

What I could read from the Google translation (can somebody get us a better translation please?):

• Bali-angle LCD, 2.7 inch?
• D movie image editing and enhanced scene mode
• Silent Mode AF
• 11-point target tracking AF 
• ISO3200high sensitivity support

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Update – a better translation by desde-japon (thanks!):

Price will be 84,800 yen with a “points rebate” of 8,480 yen, that you can use to buy other stuff at their store (memories, batteries, lenses, whatever). So final real price will be 76,320 yen. For comparison, they sell the D90 body at 104,800 yen, and the D3x body at 866,800 yen.

●2.7型バリアングル液晶 (2.7″ vari-angle screen)
●Dムービー (D-Movie)
●画像編集機能が強化 (Image edition capability)
●19のシーンモード (19 scene modes)
●静音撮影モード (Quiet shooting mode)
●ターゲット追尾AF (Target following AF)
●11点AF (AF 11 points)
●エアフローコントロールシステム、イメージセンサークリーニングシステム (Airflow control system, Image sensor cleaning system)
●高感度ISO3200対応 (Supports high sensitivity ISO 3200)

Why does it look like a full frame camera (viewfinder size)? I remember at one point I received a rumor that the new built-in flash will be bigger, and will swivel – something like the SB-400. I also see a mic on top of the D5000 label.

More updates on the way. I will reveal the source later today or tomorrow – still hoping to see something more.

Update: coming to stores on May 1st, 2009.

I received this link to a dpreview thread about the new Nikon camera that leaked few days ago. On page six at the bottom you will find this picture:

My first impression was that the viewfinder is too big for an entry level Nikon DSLR but then I tried to find exactly what camera this could be. Note that the display swivels to the south (exactly like the camera on the spy shot), not to the east like this Olympus. I checked also this Sony but the swivel mechanism is different. The Nikon P90 looks different too. The camera looks too big to be a point and shoot. Another interesting fact is that the name of the dpreview poster sounds Eastern European (the spy shots from few days ago came from Dubrovnik).

Can someone identify this camera, maybe I am just missing the obvious?

Sent in by a reader:

“A popular camera store here in Sweden has a special campaign where you get a free Nikon T-shirt when buying a D90, a D5000 or a selected lens.”

Can someone in Sweden call this store for more details? Thanks.

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