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Nikon D800 Outed?
smirkypants:
--- Quote from: motorhead on November 24, 2011, 09:49:53 AM ---I also hear that the 200-400 is still only at an early stage in its development. A prototype exists, but its a long way from production.
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I have almost jumped ship to Nikon a couple of times because of their truly fantastic 200-400 f4. Canon has nothing that can match it in terms of flexibility/IQ and "long way from production" seriously bums me out. Pair that with the D800 and it's getting hard to stay in the Canon camp.
dilbert:
--- Quote from: motorhead on November 24, 2011, 09:49:53 AM ---Spent the morning at a Canon presentation on the new 1Dx and grabbed the opportunity to ask the direct question about how Canon are likely to respond to the 36MP D800. The answer was that there are no plans to introduce a 1Ds replacement, but that this does not rule out some other response. However this means that there will be no response for possibly as long as a couple of years!
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Which part of that did they say?
Did their answer include "However this means that there will be no response for possibly as long as a couple of years!" or is that your own conclusion?
After Canon's lead in the MP race a few years ago, Sony/Nikon are now thumping Canon in every segment of the DSLR market when it comes to MP.
motorhead:
Dilbert,
None of it is my conjecture, its all direct from one Canon employees mouth. How much is his own guesswork I have no idea, but I do believe he was being as honest with me as he could be.
I'd guess that any D800 response will have to await a management meeting before any research even starts, so its bound to be a long time coming.
Fab_Angilletta:
--- Quote from: motorhead on November 24, 2011, 09:49:53 AM ---Spent the morning at a Canon presentation on the new 1Dx and grabbed the opportunity to ask the direct question about how Canon are likely to respond to the 36MP D800.The answer was that there are no plans to introduce a 1Ds replacement, but that this does not rule out some other response. However this means that there will be no response for possibly as long as a couple of years!
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what? no response to D800 for a couple of years? i can't believe this, no.
canon will respond with 5D mark 3 but i don't think it be 36MP maybe 32MP
Meh:
--- Quote from: Fab_Angilletta on November 24, 2011, 03:16:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: motorhead on November 24, 2011, 09:49:53 AM ---Spent the morning at a Canon presentation on the new 1Dx and grabbed the opportunity to ask the direct question about how Canon are likely to respond to the 36MP D800.The answer was that there are no plans to introduce a 1Ds replacement, but that this does not rule out some other response. However this means that there will be no response for possibly as long as a couple of years!
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what? no response to D800 for a couple of years? i can't believe this, no.
canon will respond with 5D mark 3 but i don't think it be 36MP maybe 32MP
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By "no response for a couple of years" the rep could mean only that nothing is coming up (i.e. R&D done, field testing underway, release imminent) that will match the 36MP.
If Canon didn't already have a plan to introduce an ~36MP FF sensor and were caught by surprise at Nikon doing so, then it would take them some time to go through the usual development phases. However, it's also possible they have multiple sensors in development all the time and might choose among them based on what Nikon does.
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