Nikon really scared of Canon

NIKON, CANON and SONY should be really scared of the new soon to be released Pentax 645 Digital. which will set new benchmarks for exceptional image quality, sensitivity, dynamic range, and color fidelity. With 18.6 million total pixels.

We all recognise that the medium format is still the workhorse of the past and future, together with Hassleblad and others too so be ready to embrace it at a price that will be bearable to anyone who is serious about their photograpy.

Let's face it chaps and chapesses, Any real photographer worth their salt shoots in RAW all the time pretty much, and as we Know the K10D is a huge step up from the mid market NIK-CAN-ONY's. I mean, I can go out in the cruel icy and snow conditions here in Australia or the infernal heat and blinding sun of Austria and the K10D will keep on keeping on. (You know what I mean). And .......You can't do that with a Canon D5 so save your money and be ready to invest in your professional future.

Ooops I think this thread has come to a natural end.

Hey troll, Pentax will go the same way as Konica Minolta.

Roger Knight said:

NIKON, CANON and SONY should be really scared of the new soon to be
released Pentax 645 Digital. which will set new benchmarks for
exceptional image quality, sensitivity, dynamic range, and color
fidelity. With 18.6 million total pixels.
We all recognise that the medium format is still the workhorse of
the past and future, together with Hassleblad and others too so be
ready to embrace it at a price that will be bearable to anyone who
is serious about their photograpy.

Let's face it chaps and chapesses, Any real photographer worth
their salt shoots in RAW all the time pretty much, and as we Know
the K10D is a huge step up from the mid market NIK-CAN-ONY's. I
mean, I can go out in the cruel icy and snow conditions here in
Australia or the infernal heat and blinding sun of Austria and the
K10D will keep on keeping on. (You know what I mean). And
.......You can't do that with a Canon D5 so save your money and be
ready to invest in your professional future.

Ooops I think this thread has come to a natural end.

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Khizhiy said:

I personally do not care much about Pro market. I could afford 30D
or D200 but I can do better with 400D or D80/40. I mean there are
not so many pro buyers compared to the non-pro like me. And Nikon
is doing great there.

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And you know what? Some might say that Nikon don't care much about the pro market either.

Keep in mind that pro users do spend quite a lot of money on equipment. They buy more lenses, buy more bodies, replace their bodies more often, etc., than your average consumer buyer. And the profit margins are higher on high-end equipment.

Recently I started reading the "despatches" of David Noton, a landscape and travel photographer who writes a monthly column for Practical Photography Magazine. On his website, in his August 2005 despatch, he writes of "junking my entire Nikon system" and switching to Canon. http://www.davidnoton.com/despatches.php So what did he end up buying?

2 Canon EOS-1Ds mkII bodies
Canon 17-40mm f4 EF lens
Canon 24-70mm f2.8 EF lens
Canon 70-200mm f2.8 EF IS lens
Canon 24mm f3.5 tilt & shift lens
Canon 15mm f2.8 fisheye lens
Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 EF lens
Canon 580 flash

Just eyeballing it, I'd say that it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $23,000 worth of equipment that he bought in one fell swoop. The two 1Ds MKII bodies alone probably account for about $15,000. That's a little more money than your average D80 or 400D buyer is going to spend on photographic equipment in his entire lifetime. And those buyers are more likely to buy third-party lenses, too.

diabolic said:

...
Maybe if Nikon and Canon produce identical SLR's they'll all be
happy and at peace.
...

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No... won't happen, I'm afraid. People here will always find something to argue about and insult each other over... even if it was down to a Canon vs Nikon logo on an otherwise identical camera - such things are of earth-shattering importance to photography, you see.

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Hi T3,

T3 said:

In response to the persistent rumors that Nikon was going FF
(supposedly by the end of the year, just like you're parrotting),
Nikon had their marketing manager, Jeremy Gilbert, speak to Amateur
Photographer to tell everyone that Nikon wasn't going FF any time
soon, and hadn't even made a decision on FF yet. That basically
rules out any FF body by the end of the year.
And I don't think they are going to go 1.25x either. I think if
they go larger than 1.5x, they'll go all the way and go FF.

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But Nikon and Sony need to do something... They have no other way...

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Hi rrcphoto,

rrcphoto said:

my only question is that nikon habitually pre-announces pro gear.
so why haven't they already?

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I think it's in progress... It's just my tip, no real informations about this.

rrcphoto said:

it's the worst kept secret that canon was going to do major things
this year - it wasn't that hard to figure out 1, 2 or even three
years ago that this would be a big year that canon would focus on.
I mean really, if I was nikon I would have had pro bodies ready for
announcement feb just past, summer, and fall.
Whether you use nikon or not - you have to admit, their silence
speaks volumes. Especially in the pro market, where things are
leading up to next year's olympics.

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Yes, Canon will a winner at this olympics.

I hope a Samsung/Pentax or Olympus will make FF DSLR soon to make better prize for FF DSLRs...

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end of another C vs N thread (the only ones which hit 150!).
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ribian said:

end of another C vs N thread (the only ones which hit 150!).
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may the light be with you
RIccardo BIANchi
(equipment in profile)
http://www.riccardobianchi.it

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Johnny

hhhh

I think effective competition will force Canon to drop their prices out of the stratosphere, and prompt more rapid development. That would be good for everybody in the long run.