New Nikon Rumors Medium format DRF

[micromontenegro]

And now Leica goes out and gives us this:

And now Leica goes out and gives us this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29782425@N08/2879015170/sizes/l/

 

[Nh3]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29782425@N08/2879015170/sizes/l/

If that is true which it looks like it then the typical M-owning Leica base would be furious.

No full frame M8 but a medium format digital SLR-like camera and its HUGE!

haha

 

[Nh3]

"...that technology from the S2 would 'trickle down' to other yet-to-be-announced Leica digital cameras..."

*interesting*

And then it says the R system is far from dead.

So Leica is in the DSLR business now, which makes perfect sense.

 

[aizan]

ohhhh...nice. i hope they sell like hotcakes.

 

[xayraa33]

we are back to the era of huge SLRs
time to dust off the original Canon F1

 

[Frankie]

Now that Photokina is all but over, anymore Nikon DRF rumours?

I have just returned from Tokyo and have visited Nikon's showroom in Ginza on the 23rd...and used their computer to check Photokina news and assorted rumour mills...no DRF there either.

What is next?

 

[Mackinaw]

Now that Photokina is all but over, anymore Nikon DRF rumours? What is next?

The Nikon fanboys say, "just wait until PMA next year, that's when we'll see a Nikon DRF!" Put me in the Doubting Thomas column.

Jim B.

 

[Frankie]

It is a common enough tactics that if you are indeed developing a competing product and confident of success soon, then by all means leak it...delaying potential buyers from making final decisions. Nikon leaked or announced the D700 and P6000 because of that, not Photokina 😉.

So what is in the product horizon that would cause an early announcement of a DRF?

 

[Highway 61]

So what is in the product horizon that would cause an early announcement of a DRF?

Of a DRF, well, nothing.

Of a new 30x45mm sensor based camera system, the new Leica S2 as well as new products by Phase One.

That is, products over the $20,000 mark for the camera body alone, and so, not for the average amateur shutterbug.

 

[Frankie]

Of a DRF, well, nothing.

Of a new 30x45mm sensor based camera system, the new Leica S2 as well as new products by Phase One.

That is, products over the $20,000 mark for the camera body alone, and so, not for the average amateur shutterbug.

Most camera owners have one lens... ideally a do everything zoom... and use it mostly for collecting dust. They bought the contraption because of the Jones... or a one time imaginary need. To spend $20,000 on a camera body... or even a whole system... is unimaginable.

Professionals are different. They invest because of business needs... in other words, the customers ultimately support the capital amortization. Eventual "users" pay.

As I have written elsewhere, a digital imaging system is akin to have prepaid all recurring film/processing costs, hence the common desire for the insurance of maximum theoretical resolution... neatly, if erroneously summarized by the term "maga-pixels". Advertizers know that.

The enthusiasts, us, are not even a factor in the manufacturers' product development decisions. The only consideration is what will sell.