Have Nikon officially announced new cameras?

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All I can find is rumor sites and speculation about models, dates, specs etc.

Have Nikon actually said there will be a D400 and a D800 or is it all speculation??

Reason I ask is my D200 needs replacing and I will either plump for one of the new models if not too far away and overpriced, or await their launch and buy the outgoing model cheap :D
 
There's a lot of rumour and speculation at the moment, but nothing has been officially announced.

With the earthquake at the beginning of the year, and the flooding in Thailand, I suspect their schedules have been knocked off plan a bit. I would be very surprised if a D4 and D800 won't be available in time for next years olympics. It also wouldn't surprise me if the 'D400' doesn't appear as such - the rumoured D800 seems to live in the space space as a D400 would be expected to.
 
Surely the D400 would be the flagship DX sensor D300s replacement and the D800 would be the flagship pro-am FX sensor D700 replacement?
 
Why does the sensor size matter? That's a Canon thing! Remember the D3 were the first full-frame sensors for Nikon, the D2x was cropped and the 'flagship'. I don't think its a sure cut thing that Nikon will separate based on sensor size.
 
Sensor size matters because it defines 2 different ranges of cameras, DX sized and full frame FX sized.

The 2 dont blur or mix other than in the D3X etc where they have a crop mode which is like a DX sensor, although rather pointless on such a camera!
 
Bluelion said:
Why does the sensor size matter? That's a Canon thing! Remember the D3 were the first full-frame sensors for Nikon, the D2x was cropped and the 'flagship'. I don't think its a sure cut thing that Nikon will separate based on sensor size.
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Size does matter. If the new D3 and D700 replacements had a DX sensor, you can bet Nikon would lose huge swathes of market share (I know I wouldn't hang around).

Nikon was late to the FX market because it didn't want manufacturing costs to reduce margin but Canon forced their hand (which they might do again with MF as it's rumoured Canon are considering getting into the MF market now that the 5Diii doesn't have a big number of megapixel's).
Reportedly a FF sensor costs 20x more to manufacture than a crop sensor, that's a pretty large difference.
 
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Well, tomorrow's the sixth January - and the rumour-mill (http://nikonrumors.com/) surrounding a Nikon D4 announcement is working overtime.

Some unofficial official pictures have been published, with spec estimates currently suggesting:

16Mp full-frame camera (8Mp in DX mode)
1.34Kg (vs 1.24Kg for the D3s)
ISO 100 to 102,400 (expandable to 204,800)
51-point AF
Autofocus down to F8
Lots of HD video stuff which I won't pretend to understand ;)


So, assuming this spec is correct, are they a surprise - am I disappointed?
Well, the D3 was launched in 2007, updated to the D3s 2009. So we're looking at a 5 year update - a substantial amount of time. Yet the spec appears at first glance to be a rather incremental update, at least outside of the video features.

Am I disappointed? No! I haven't got a D3/s, and am desperate to upgrade from a failing D300. The F8 autofocus means the capability of focusing at 1200mm with a 600mm F4 lens. I expect (hope!) that the ISO performance will be at least the equivalent of the D3s.

The only real concern is the price - $6000 US, 5800€, what £5.5k perhaps? Lets hope that this drops rapidly after launch.
 
TRNC said:
16MP for their flagship pro camera??? That cant be right?
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Why would that merit so many question marks?

As for the D4...it's looking better than the D3s and nothing, arguably, has beaten that so I'm sure the update will be good whilst not revolutionary. Ideally I'd like to have seen it with phase detect AF in video but I'd rather buy a camera on it's stills quality than it's video capabilities. I'll just hope that it's introduction brings more D3s's to the second hand market. One can but hope.
 
Because its a step backwards and not competitive against Canon hence it cant be right, thus the overuse of question marks!!!! ;)
 
For a matter of interest, why is it not competitive against Canon? its nearest Canon rival, the 1Dx is 18.1Mp - which is not so different?
 
TRNC said:
To launch a new model with lower specs that the current, older, competitors model is suicide.
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You might find that professionals looking at the D4 won't care about MP count; they're by and large action photographers for magazines and newspapers which don't need the megapixels but do need the ISO performance which is Nikon's speciality. The D800 is rumoured to be their pixel cruncher at 36MP to take the role of the D3x while being priced as the D700's successor.
 
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