If Nikon doesn't get their act together on DX...

PhotoHawk wrote:

Nope - the FX line has solved that for the most part. Also Nikon uses a customized Milbeaut processor and that recent edition as of 2011 has a significant gain in processing power. So they probably have enough for a good frame rate at 24MP. Heck the D5200 does 5 FPS with what is probably the older version Milbeaut CPU.

I don't think Nikon would be quite that brain dead. But given the lack of development on the DX Lens front I wouldn't put it past them. Concentrating all their resources on expanding a small part of their market doesn't on the face of it seem good business. However perhaps they think that the D600 will quickly iterate down to the $1500-1700 mark (its been sold already for under $2000 with a lens) which would tend to impact the D300s replacement market segment. That may force the D300s replacement into marginal profitability shortly after introduction. So that may be a quandary they are facing. But this quandary would only exist if Nikon thought the best way to answer the coming smaller mirrorless high end competitor's APSC cameras would be with the larger FF system.

Canon may be thinking the same as Nikon. That there is a disruptive technology or a cost breakthrough with FF that would make APSC type cameras a non cost effective or less desirable format. We know that the EVF costs less than the prism type OVF. Suppose a 6D like camera is around the corner but with a EVF? Think $1700 on introduction. That would be about the introduction price of the 7D. Or think D600 with EVF. Now take $200 buck of the $1999 price of the D600 with a lens offer that occurred in December - say 1799 with a lens. Does a D300s DX type replacement at $1500 without lens make sense?

So maybe the near future for Nikon and Canon is APSC mirrorless to about the $1200 price point (body only) and FF above. Almost all EVF. Then the current affairs may make sense.