NIkon rumors

Does anyone have any information, leaks or speculations on what the
successor to the D80 will be? Also, any idea of when it might be announced?

Thanks,

Gordo

 

D70s, many exciting improvements and features.
31 September, 9:00 am. Put it in your diary now.

 

D80s. Many exciting new features and improvements and lower price.
31 September, 9:00am announcement.

 

Are you sure it won't be on September 32, or 33, or 34?

They are all equally likely, after all!

;-)

 

Good point, except I've calculated that, in 5890, the earth's rotation
will have slowed enough where an extra day is needed. It will be added
in Sept. of that year. February will continue to be the short month
until 40388, by which time all months will have 31 days.

 

The earth will have run out of oil to make plastic from long before
then. It will be made of metal, and one of RichA's descendants will
make many usenet posts complaining about the weight.

 

RichA has descendants?

 

The first will be born, Feb 29 2019.

 

The first will be born, Feb 29 2019. She will be called Olympia Titania
Rich. She'll be generally okay, although eyes a little close together
and noisier than most.

 

Not for the D80, but the D200's replacement is near. Apparently.

 

OK, here goes.

The Nikon D300 will be announced on Monday August 23, 2007.

It will have a 1.1X sensor with 12.8 MP and 5 frames/sec.

The D300 will eventually replace the D200 in the Nikon DSLR range.

[my source was not 100% sure about the pixel count]

 

I bet you're wrong, and that your source wasn't 100% sure about anything.

There's no "D300" with those specs before D2Xs and particularly D2Hs are
updated.

See you here on the 24 August.

 

It seems they need to address the pro market... let people buy the
expensive one, then a few months later comes the lite version.

 

That's quite considerate of Nikon. Better than offering the lite
version and then a few months later, have them say "Here's the
better product, don't you wish you had waited?"

 

It is the D3. Actually, the D3 has been in the rumor mill for nearly
five years, now, which leads me to conclude that Nikon will never
release a camera called the D3. Over the years the specs and design
of the D3 have varied widely.

I suspect that 'D3' is actually Nikon's designation for any digital SLR
that they are about to introduce. Thus, the D2 had a D3 label on it
when photographers were testing it. The D100, D70, D200, D80, D50 and
D40 have all had their turn in testing with a D3 label. Thus, Nikon
will always be about to release a 'D3' that has been reportedly seen by
many people, but when they release it, it will be called something else.

And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to be proved "wrong". Personally, I have no
information about the D300 - I'm just passing on a rumo(u)r I heard
yesterday. My main source of Nikon information - a Japanese friend of
30 years - cannot tell me anything.

I have much more reliable information about Canon's new DSLRs.

I remember being vilified on here when I dared post about a new Canon
DSLR with a full frame sensor and 12.8 MP two weeks before it was
officially announced. The serial liar Steven M Scharf (sms) accused
me of not telling the truth - spot the irony! That only made me laugh.

Why?

Because I had a Canon EOS 5D sitting on my desk as I typed. And two
weeks later came the official announcement from Canon. I'm still
waiting for Sharf's apology.

 

D300 is for the prosumer market. The new pro camera (D3?) has a
rather more advanced specification, still with the 1.1X crop but
almost 18 MP.

 

You may be in for a long wait. When such things are pointed out,
he has a tendency to KF the messenger (or at least say that he has),
and then make similar accusations if you persist. Earlier this
month when I provide a quote from an Energizer PDF file that
contradicted what he was then saying about USB battery chargers, he
accused me of fabricating the quote when he found a different
Energizer PDF file that lacked the quote. He soon discovered his
mistake, either by reading my response quoted in other people's
messages, or (more likely) was actually reading my messages. Rather
than apologize, he simply said indicated that he knew more than
Energizer, and that they must have forgotten to correct their
mistake.

 

I believe the D[1-9]00 series will continue to be APS-C format. The D[1-9]h
and D[1-9]x may eventually move to a larger format, but even that is of doubt.
I instead believe that Nikon will move towards better quality imaging sensors
and stick with the APS-C size for all camera lines. Why do I think that?
Because of the enormous investment in the lenses that they have already made.
Who am I to judge though, I will be sticking with the D200 for a few years if
all goes according to plan.

 

I am sure that is what you would like to believe. However, I can tell
you for sure that Nikon will soon have at least one model within its
DSLR range that will have a 1.1X sensor.

Of that, I am absolutely certain.

It is probably not what you want to hear. For that, I apologise.