Rene11664880918 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Well, only Nikon Japan seems to have info about it so far! http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/jpn/whatsnew/2008/1201_d3x_01.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Yeah, one of the worst kept secrets in Nikon history. :-) Rene, do they have any pricing information. I saw 21K yen but then realized that was for the GP-1 GPS unit only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw63 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 You don't even need to go to the Japan site either. Here is the same sheet on their global site: http://nikon.com/about/news/2008/1201_d3x_01.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene11664880918 Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 LOL I am trying to find out the price but so far no store has it yet. They only have the pre-order thing without price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene11664880918 Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 898,000 Yen around 9,452.00 USD at todays rate! So who is ordering already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Here is a link to the Nikon USA's press release: http://press.nikonusa.com/2008/11/nikon_unveils_a_digital_master.php The price in the US is "a bit cheaper": US$7999.95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_henman Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 For this price, I would consider a cheap medium format digital back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_henman Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 For the same pixel and fps, Sony is selling at about 1/3 of the price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmm Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 The model is also up on Nikon Australia's website and therefore 'official' down under. Most interesting to me (and touched on in a previous thread when this was all just a rumour) is the 100 to 1600 ISO range. Seems limited in some respects, compared the the ISOs available on D3 and D700. However I imagine the ISO 1600 performance is superb... Can you imagine it with the new 50/1.4G? (Speaking of which has anyone got their hands on that new lens yet)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two23 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Seems like a rather tough time to come out with an $8,000 camera. Maybe the actual price will be lower early next year. As someone mentioned, hopefully it will push the price of the D700 down some, but seeing how these seem to be two different cameras aimed at two different markets I'm not hopeful. Kent in SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liljuddakalilknyttphotogra Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 To my sadness I see that my expected price of about $ 8,000.00 to match that of the Canon proved true...... Well if I could figure how to make money from my hobby......then maybe I could do this..... :-( Lil :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrum Kelly Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Well, I just came from dpreview.com . It's official now, and with another classical error that plagued the release of the Canons: "Nikon has announced the D3x, its latest high-resolution professional DSLR. Sporting an imaging sensor with double the resolution of the popular D3. . . ." Not to take away anything from the new Nikon, nor the tremendous 1-2-3 blows that Nikon has sent through the digital world since August, 2007, but doubling the pixel count does not double the resolution. to do that, the new camera would have had to have come out with forty-eight (48) mega-pixels. Still, this is welcome news for all of us, no matter what we are shooting these days, especially if we using our instruments to shoot landscapes and portraits. Perhaps Phil Askey has corrected it by now. --Lannie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric_arnold Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 bernard, don't trust those internet rumors, that's how misinformation gets spread. according to nikon's specs from dpreview, " Default: ISO 200 - 6400 in 1/3, 1/2 or 1.0 EV steps • Boost: 100 - 12800 in 1/3, 1/2 or 1.0 EV steps, HI2 = ISO 25600" that's ISO 25,600, not 1600, max. better be good for 8 grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_jack Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Another site with info http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1228104060.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Landrum, the image filesize is doubled with the new D3x vs the D3. Many would agree this doubles the resolution of a same-size output. You can argue math, but in the imaging industry, doubling the resolution means doubling the filesize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish_gray Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 At Nikon.com they say the ISO can be boosted up to 6400, but DP-review claims HI-2 to be ISO 25600. So who is right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterh Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Dave repeating errors does not make the situation better. I understand that many people have no idea what they are talking about but accepting wrong concepts on a popularity vote is not my kind of understanding of technical discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish_gray Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Ok i see what has happened... DP have apparently copied and pasted the specs from the D3 review and forgotten to change a few things. As of this moment they are also claiming 9 fps in FX and 9-11 fps in DX mode. Sound familiar? I suspect this will be corrected shortly :-) So I guess we go with ISO 6400... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkman Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 $8,000 Ouch...this is almost year 2009, not 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leif_goodwin8 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Seems expensive to me for an extra 12MP. Maybe each sensor pit is individually hand crafted and signed by the employee concerned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaymondC Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 All these price complaining ... There is sure at least some customers buying the 1DsIII over the 5DII. It's also like the D700 vs D3 but to a less extent. Or the D300 vs D90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose_angel Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Rumours I have heard here were around EUR5500. US$8000 are near EUR6000. It must be in that range, thought. I remember that the D700 price was reduced a 15% one month after the first batch arrived. The D3 currently is EUR4300. "... one of the worst kept secrets in Nikon history." Certainly Nikon is especialist in this matter: last week I received an invitation for an event, what they call "the release of a new product by Nikon" but today they still don`t want to mention that it is the new D3X... At the same time, looks like the NikonPro magazine has included this new camera (as a kind forum user mentioned days ago... we don`t received the issue yet). I still wonder if there are another -real- surprise... (almost all people in earth know about the existence of the D3X since last summer, thought). I understand that doubling the pixels you have double printed area with moreless the same image quality. Of course it doesn`t mean "double resolution", don`t know if even "double printing size". I have never known how to say what I call double enlargement (=4x printed area) or double sized (=2x printed area). Resolution is a more complex parameter, with different theoretical and practical realities, thought... Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_symington1 Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Nikon UK's website confirms GBP 5500 - predictably expensive I guess. Provided I still have a job early next I might indulge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrum Kelly Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 "Landrum, the image filesize is doubled with the new D3x vs the D3. Many would agree this doubles the resolution of a same-size output. You can argue math, but in the imaging industry, doubling the resolution means doubling the filesize." --Dave Lee Dave, with all due respect, I would rather trust the math. Resolution is measured in lines per mm (inch, whatever), and that directs one to a comparison of the linear variables of the perimeter (length or width), not the surface area, which is a square factor. I would like to see someone who could intelligibly argue to the contrary, if you have their names. --Lannie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_in_PA Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 It is indeed not "double the resolution" if you measure horizontally... pixels per inch, that is... It's right around 42% more. Splitting hairs. Too much money. NIkon will probably sell boatloads of D3s to people who can't afford this and realize that the D3's 12MP is probably all they needed anyway. It's a real specialty camera, don't y'all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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