New Nikon Rumors Medium format DRF

[jmarcus]

Enjoy:
http://gizmodo.com/5045897/nikon-41+megapixel-mx-format-sensor-for-digital-rangefinder

 

[aizan]

oh great, now i'm all discombobulated.

 

[Highway 61]

41MP means that you all sell your actual 6 months old computers and jump into the TeraOctet world unless you want to buy a dozen of external 500GB HDs a year.

Other option is to limit yourself to shoot 5 pics a month. 😀

Welcome to Xanadu-Wonderland.

Yet if I read the scanned paper data I get :

MX large : 6380 x 6380 = 41 MP, yes.

FX large : 4256 x 2832 = 12 MP.

If it takes my AI-S lenses...

 

[dazedgonebye]

41MP means that you all sell your actual 6 months old computers and jump into the TeraOctet world unless you want to buy a dozen of external 500GB HDs a year.

Other option is to limit yourself to shoot 5 pics a month. 😀

Welcome to Xanadu-Wonderland.

Yet if I read the scanned paper data I get :

MX large : 6380 x 6380 = 41 MP, yes.

FX large : 4256 x 2832 = 12 MP.

If it takes my AI-S lenses...

I think it's more likely you'll have to sell your six month old child to afford it. 😱

 

[johnastovall]

This is crazy. The overall digital MF market is declining and no way Nikon can compete with the long term players in it. 41mp is now at the low end of MF backs and 12mp is usless. Who would buy it? You can get used Mimaya 22mp backs now for 5.5k.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Why on earth would it be a digital rangefinder?

48x48 back, sure; not unlikely.

But a true RF body? I won't hold my breath...

Cheers,

R.

 

[photogdave]

I wonder if the 48mmx48mm is just a guess or wish, and the MX actually refers to M mount?

 

[Highway 61]

I think it's more likely you'll have to sell your six month old child to afford it. 😱

Well my six month old child cannot be for sale any longer since April 1997... 😛

 

[parsec1]

A digi rfdr witha D3 type chip and an M mount. Something that you could actually use professionaly. I love my Leica's but that would be worth some serious consideration.

 

[NIKON KIU]

Why on earth would it be a digital rangefinder?

48x48 back, sure; not unlikely.

But a true RF body? I won't hold my breath...

Cheers,

R.

But we HAVE to agree on one point, Nikon has something up their sleeves...


Kiu

 

[Highway 61]

A digi rfdr witha D3 type chip and an M mount.

Here we go again.

Nikon stupid managers spending a huge amount of R&D, money, energy, ROI-previsional work, just to manufacture, series produce, and launch a $$$$ camera on the worldwide asphalt jungle market just to please Leica people who want to mount not Nikon lenses on that body.

Sweet dreams are cheap at the marketing guys kingdom.

😀

 

[tedwin]

If using a normal or DX lens, why would you have to rotate body/back for landscape / portrait orientation being as the sensor is square and the projected image round?

 

[tedwin]

Sorry, got a head cold, you just rotate the mask. For some reason..

 

[parsec1]

Here we go again.

Nikon stupid managers spending a huge amount of R&D, money, energy, ROI-previsional work, just to manufacture, series produce, and launch a $$$$ camera on the worldwide asphalt jungle market just to please Leica people who want to mount not Nikon lenses on that body.

Sweet dreams are cheap at the marketing guys kingdom.

😀

Well I aint that young anymore and carrying two D3's plus four wide ap lenses as a minimum across 5 miles of scrub ceased being 'fun' for me a long time ago

 

[Roger Hicks]

But we HAVE to agree on one point, Nikon has something up their sleeves...


Kiu

It would be amazing if they didn't.

But it would be even more amazing to throw away 1/3 of the chip area on a square chip to create 2:3 format images...

The closer you look, and the more people project their fantasies on to it, the weirder it gets.

Cheers,

R.

 

[parsec1]

'They' should make what we need rather than what 'they' think we should have.

 

[Roger Hicks]

'They' should make what we need rather than what 'they' think we should have.

Manufacturers make what they think they can sell. Hard to blame 'em for that.

Or were you thinking of the old Soviet-style controlled ecnomy where The Party decides what people need? I mean, I need a roof over my head, and food to eat. A decadent capitalist M8 has no place in the hierarchy of needs...

Cheers,

R.

 

[parsec1]

Manufacturers make what they think they can sell. Hard to blame 'em for that.

Or were you thinking of the old Soviet-style controlled ecnomy where The Party decides what people need? I mean, I need a roof over my head, and food to eat. A decadent capitalist M8 has no place in the hierarchy of needs...

Cheers,

R.

Thats the point 'think'. Nobody has ever asked me and as for as I know anybody else in what used to be called 'The street of shame' over the last 30 years or so. And I'm not ashamed to say it was 4 years before Vic Blackman retired when I started freelancing at the Express.

 

[nksyoon]

This was also covered on Wired: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/nikon-readying.html

And this blog mentions a new lens line which would cover the whole 48x48mm sensor.

 

[tomasis]

What to say that Nikon is moving in medium format area? Not so bad, I think. We see some Nikkor lenses on Plaubel. RF body is even great. Look at new Fuji model which is also RF. Why not? I think FF lenses will seen as DX lenses for FF bodies so if it is true, we'll see larger 6x6 lenses. Some primes? All that sounds a bit unbelievelable, as to associate Nikon with MF, RF, hm