Nikon D7100 announcement?

stuntmonkey wrote:

A lot of the blame goes to the 5DmII. It was fairly cheap for what you got and even disrupted Canon's full frame pricing scheme.While the 1D and 1Ds ruled the high end pro market at one time, the 5DmII muscled into the wedding-pro (and weekend-pro) market that used to belong to the D200/D300. So now if you earn a living with your camera, the game has moved on, it's all about full frame. (Well, that and videography, but trying to keep this simple.)

So what used to be the D300 crowd is now split between the D7000 and D700/D800.... basically the paid and un-paid crowd (or those who can write off their purchases and those who can't). I think that the situation gets a bit muddled with the D600, because the D600 isn't enough camera for the paid crowd, but is too expensive a proposition for the unpaid crowd.

The longer we go like this, the more that I think that the D7xxx series is it for high-end DX. You can only split the pie so many ways. Remember, for a very brief period of time, the pro cameras in Nikon's lineup were the D3 and D300... this was before the D700. That crowd is now split between the D4, D800, D600 and some of the D7000. Adding a D400 into the mix when the camera market (and consumer electronics in general) is not doing so well might not be the best at the moment.

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