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Posted August 27, 2010 at 3:20 pm | Permalink
Yes, 100% VF is correct but I still do not think they will eliminate the D300s line.
Well, to me it does, I doubt there will be two boies with that kind of spec, it's a bona fide pro feature, only top model carries that for each sensor type, not even D700 at 2,500USD has it.
I don't think they work on rules like that. What they work on is what the features are necessary to distiguish a model from the next one up, and to give it an advantage over its competitor. The D700 is clearly an FX D300, yet the D300 has a 100% VF and the D700 doesn't. Why? Because the D700 needs some differentiation from the D3 that the D300 doesn't (because its differentiation is the DX sensor). Why is the D700 only 5FPS without the grip? Do you believe that the mech can't handle 8FPS (it can with the grip, and is probably just the same as in the D3), has the EXPEED go slower? Neither of those, simply the D700 needs to be slower to differentiate it from the D3.
So the question is, what does there need to be to distinguish between the D300s and the D7000. AF is one thing, it won't have 51 point AF. 7/8 FPS is probably another (though you seem to think it will be 8FPS). But then there doesn't have to be much, because the D300s won't be selling much any way, they probably aren't even making them any more, all it's doing is acting as a place holder for the D400, which will be a mini D4 and will certainly have features to differentiate it from the D7000 (assuming that the D4 has features which the D3 doesn't).
It makes camera larger, meaning D7000 won't be of D90's size.
I doubt it. The prism would be less than 1mm larger in each dimension (if it's larger at all, quite likely the D300 and D90 share the same prism, after all, why make two for 5% difference in size)
If confirmed, the D7000 is actually the D300s' replacement. New 39 point AF, metal body, dual slots, 8fps, etc. The 39 point AF system should have more cross type points, making better than present 51 point AF system in D300s.
But not in 'featureland'.
Actually, you're probably right, in a sense. Either Nikon has massively misjudged what Canon was going to offer with the 60D or they have decided to take on the 60D
and the 7D with one model. If the latter, it makes sense in terms of the introduction cycle, but it
doesn't mean that there will be no D400, just, as I said before, that they won't (and don't intend to) sell a whole load of D300s's before the D400 is released next year.
And, it won't cost 1200USD for body only, more like 1500USD if Nikon wants to beat 7D.
I suspect the price point will stay more or less the same, the policy is 'kill the 60D on capability, kill the 7D on price'.
This opens 1,800-2,000USD price range for a D90's class FF body. It's coming ...
Not happening, an FX sensor costs too much.
