Nikon D2x - it's official

As a Canon user all I can say is "Nice job Nikon, that's one cool camera!"
Or maybe "two cool cameras" in one?

I'm quite curious as to how the wireless connectivity is going to pan out.
Could be an added power-drain, but how great would it be to finish firing
the last frame of a shoot and have all your photos already sitting on your
PC?


"Brian C. Baird" wrote in message
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Since you're all asleep, I figure I'll do the generous thing:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04091605nikond2x.asp

1.5x crop - whatever, follows what Nikon said they would do.
Interesting to see if they keep the noise down and what the Canon
response will be.
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Brian C. Baird wrote:

Since you're all asleep, I figure I'll do the generous thing:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04091605nikond2x.asp

1.5x crop - whatever, follows what Nikon said they would do.
Interesting to see if they keep the noise down and what the Canon
response will be.

Looks like one hell of a camera ... CMOS too... hmm.

Cheers,
Alan.



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"J Zawrotny" wrote in
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I'm quite curious as to how the wireless connectivity is going to pan
out. Could be an added power-drain,

shrug That's what external battery packs are for, if you're right.

but how great would it be to
finish firing the last frame of a shoot and have all your photos
already sitting on your PC?

Bloody marvelous, especially in-studio. Hell, you could set a very large
viewing screen up to get a nice big view of what you have just shot -
immediately.

Or, come to think of it, it should be simple to rig an "unlimited" carry-
pack (using, say, an iPod or similar portable unit with a nice-sized hard
drive). Put a 2GB card in your camera as a buffer, set the whole thing up
to dump constantly, and you've got, what - thousands, tens of thousands of
exposures before you just *have* to stop?

I'm hoping we'll see imitation of this from everyone else - in fact, you'd
think it would be fairly simple for a third party to come along and provide
the same thing for any digital body with a reasonably fast interface (the
Nikon jobbie connects via their USB 2).

Alan Browne wrote:

Brian C. Baird wrote:

Since you're all asleep, I figure I'll do the generous thing:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04091605nikond2x.asp

1.5x crop - whatever, follows what Nikon said they would do.
Interesting to see if they keep the noise down and what the Canon
response will be.

Looks like one hell of a camera ... CMOS too... hmm.

....and by the "6.8 mpix 8 f/sec" is is a in the same turn a kind of "better D2H".

Also the F6 is not a "spook" either!
Combined with the AS Minolta (special for you) the Photokina
will be very exciting!

Thomas


Cheers,
Alan.

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nikon has a way to promote a deficiency, so kudos to them for making
something negative look positive. there probably was no way nikon
could squeeze 8fps from a 12.4mp camera, and they know they need 8fps
to satisfy the sports market. so, nikon engineers/pr people get
together and develop some scheme. in this case, lower the mp and boost
the speed and not tell anybody that it's actually a deficiency that
canon will probably be able to do.

when the n90s first came out, nikon made a big deal out of keeping
focus on the main subject, even if something momentarily crossed its
path. well, i surmised that the AF was too slow to even realize
something crossed its path, and the nikon pr dept turned around this
deficiency.

there are probably several other instances where nikon pr turned
things around.

In article ,
says...
It's certainly a novel way of selling what everyone else calls "digital
zoom", albeit minus the subsequent interpolation step.

Well, the fact they boost the frame rate makes it useful. If it didn't,
it would be total gimmick. As it stands, it's a love it or hate it
feature. Useful to some, but not necessary to many.
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In article ,
says...
It's certainly a novel way of selling what everyone else calls "digital
zoom", albeit minus the subsequent interpolation step.

Well, the fact they boost the frame rate makes it useful. If it didn't,
it would be total gimmick. As it stands, it's a love it or hate it
feature. Useful to some, but not necessary to many.
--
http://www.pbase.com/bcbaird/

In article , says...

"Gene Palmiter" wrote in message
news:0eh2d.832$Ez5.355@trndny02...
Nope....its a real useful function for photojournalists. We don't always
need more MP but its nice to know its there if we need it...more often we
need speed. I can see myself using both.

The 2x crop factor in low-res mode makes it a 4/3 killer.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

4/3rds hung itself.
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In article , says...

"Gene Palmiter" wrote in message
news:0eh2d.832$Ez5.355@trndny02...
Nope....its a real useful function for photojournalists. We don't always
need more MP but its nice to know its there if we need it...more often we
need speed. I can see myself using both.

The 2x crop factor in low-res mode makes it a 4/3 killer.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

4/3rds hung itself.
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