I am sure the D4 guts can be fitted in the size of a D800, the problem is the resolution of the latter.
I don't want a fast D800. I want a small D4.
Understanding the "small D4" should be 6 fps without grip, 9 fps with it.
Get a D700
I am sure the D4 guts can be fitted in the size of a D800, the problem is the resolution of the latter.
I don't want a fast D800. I want a small D4.
Understanding the "small D4" should be 6 fps without grip, 9 fps with it.
Get a D700![]()
I am sure the D4 guts can be fitted in the size of a D800, the problem is the resolution of the latter.
I don't want a fast D800. I want a small D4.
Understanding the "small D4" should be 6 fps without grip, 9 fps with it.
Why would Nikon gut its high-end camera to fill a niche market? At the rates the D4 and D800 are being ordered, Nikon made the right decision to streamline their high-end product line.
Get a D700![]()
But you don't necessarily need a larger body for more fps.
The D700 does 5 fps in full frame without grip, while the D800 does 4 with its grip.
With the current models that we have on the market we will need to get either the D4, D3s, D3 or D300s to get more than 6fps. So if a shooter needs to be compact but still be able to get a burst of more than 6fps then the only option is the D300s.
If you need FX and you want more than 6fps then you are looking at the larger bodies.
It'd be nice to have a D3s lite (D800s) that could push 12-16MP at 8fps in a D800 body.
So now we are missing the D800H and the D4X.
D800H won't happen- there's never been an DNNNh model and I don't see Nikon wasting manufacturing capacity for yet another model, even if the only difference is the sensor.
D4x could happen.
Paul
D800H won't happen- there's never been an DNNNh model and I don't see Nikon wasting manufacturing capacity for yet another model, even if the only difference is the sensor.
D4x could happen.
Paul
Was there a DNNNe model before?
About wasted capacity, the D700 line could switch to D700s.
D800, D800E, and D800H could share a lot of the production capacity.
The e variant meets a technical need at a price premium that works. Each variant requires more decisions on parts as well as production processes. This is expensive- and would only make any sense at all if Nikon had excess production capacity on the D800 line where it would be cheaper to modify the line than to produce a new one. That's not the case and isn't likely to be the case for at least the next year.
I highly doubt the D700 will be sold much longer. It's not going to sell much more and I'd be surprised if the line weren't already changed to the D800 production line. Nikon has yet to produce multiple DNNN bodies at the same time, and while the margins are quite good there's little evidence to support high volumes of D700 bodies now the D800 is out.
Now if Nikon had produced the "modular sensor" camera Thom Hogan wanted a few years back, it'd be a slightly different story. But they didn't so it isn't.
The 5DIII comes out in April or May- likely to be announced on the 28th of this month. It sounds like it has the specs you want, so instead of illogical arguments as to why Nikon should produce a camera that it won't in the next year why not get one and shoot for a year?
Paul
Side note, Paul, I have a few technical questions for you but I will send them via PM if you don't mind.
I think only Nikon management can know what could work for them or not.
As long as you don't mind me trying to talk you into a print or two!
Paul
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It's a public company, we can analyze their likely actions based upon lots of information; You could say "Only Nikon management knows if they should start selling Bratwurst!" However, the rest of us can be pretty certain they won't.
Paul
Example of obvious failures: ditching your own successful platforms for Windows Phone.
So tell us, oh Guru- how were Nokia's sales right before the switch? Their long-term projections? The cost of updating Symbian, including any patent issues to keep it competitive? Everyone else is doing minimal development (no real coding, just customizing Android) other than Apple who has a premium brand- Nokia had three choices- be yet-another Android manufacturer, continue to pay to develop Symbian or go with MS. You want smartphone failures, look at RIM for the canonical example of corporate failure. I don't know why they didn't think they could compete using Android, but I'm betting the Symbian future was looking a lot like Palm's past- and the Palm OS was at one point quite successful.
More importantly in the Smart Phone world, getting developers to port their apps to Symbian to stay competitive was getting increasingly difficult given the huge market share posed by Apple and Google's OSs combined.
Nokia avoided RIM's year by switching-- that's bought them some time for sure.
Paul
Paul, you realize that you are wasting your time dealing with this non-sensicle troll? Your arguments have blasted him out of the water and as normal, he then goes off on another tangent. Might want to add him to your ignore list.
As for the prints, let's talk dude.![]()
So tell us, oh Guru- how were Nokia's sales right before the switch? Their long-term projections? The cost of updating Symbian, including any patent issues to keep it competitive? Everyone else is doing minimal development (no real coding, just customizing Android) other than Apple who has a premium brand- Nokia had three choices- be yet-another Android manufacturer, continue to pay to develop Symbian or go with MS. You want smartphone failures, look at RIM for the canonical example of corporate failure. I don't know why they didn't think they could compete using Android, but I'm betting the Symbian future was looking a lot like Palm's past- and the Palm OS was at one point quite successful.
More importantly in the Smart Phone world, getting developers to port their apps to Symbian to stay competitive was getting increasingly difficult given the huge market share posed by Apple and Google's OSs combined.
Nokia avoided RIM's year by switching-- that's bought them some time for sure.
Paul
Just before ditching Symbian and Meego:
- Symbian smartphone sales were double as that of the second, Apple.
- They were growing smartphone sales, profits, and ASP.
- They had a higher featurephone-to-smartphone conversion rate than the average of the industry.
- They had a new hit Symbian phone.
- The new platform, Meego, was ready.
- There was a migration path to the new platform for developers, Qt.
- The new platform phone was getting rave previews.
- Ovi Store was second to the Apple App Store
- Nokia was one of the top ten global brands.
- Microsoft and Windows are bad brands. Most people don't buy Windows because they want. Nobody needs a Windows phone.
The solution for a decline in the #1 platform market share is not to switch to the incompatible Windows Phone, which has minimum appeal.
I am just curious but can anybody explain me why 36 megapixels is needed?
Snap now, compose later![]()
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