Nikon D4 announced!!! Officially!!

Looks/sounds great, but it's not the camera for me.

Awesome! Where can I pre-order this puppy? Nada at BH or Amazon.

No D800.

I think we need a new forum now.

Agreed. We need a new forum entitled Nikon Rumors and Fantasies.

Wait, it's a Canon 1DX!!

My God, so true, Razor!
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I have the d3s and from what I see, not enough improvement to spend any money on this one. The difference between 12mp and 16mp is just not worth bothering with.

Larry

larrywilson said:

I have the d3s and from what I see, not enough improvement to spend any money on this one. The difference between 12mp and 16mp is just not worth bothering with.

Larry

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Same here. And I do think the D3s looks much better than the D4.

Tilting articulated LCD screen is obvious a mistake. That is according to DP Overview. Are my eyes deceiving me?
Eduardo

You are right I think, I commented it more than half an hour ago in the dpreview article to see if moderators fix it.

The banding-in-Nikon-pre-release-sample-image curse strikes again, albeit very broad-based in frequency and modest.

http://www.nikon.com.au/tmp/AYl/lMj/yoT/9xP/Gsa/Cn0/yoT/gVE/ZTo.jpg

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Horshack said:

• Uncompressed HDMI video output

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There is no such thing as compressed HDMI. The 'uncompressed' tag is to distinguish the HDMI video output from the compressed (h.264) file format stored on the memory card.

The question which remains (and should be of keen interest to the professional movie community) is this: Is the HDMI output a higher quality video output than what is recorded on the memory card, the video equivalent of 8-bit TIFF (which is free of compression artifacts) compared to (compressed) JPEG?

If the answer to this question is YES, this makes the D4's HDMI output a recording signal interface. HDMI now becomes a studio recording and content exchange format, much as SD (serial digital video) and HD-SD has been a studio recording interface.

As for the ethernet port... even Gigabit ethernet (GbE) does not have the bandwidth required to transport uncompressed video. HDMI 720P/60 is a 2.1 Gbit/sec signal format (with 8-bit video encoded as 10-bit words). GbE cannot touch this bandwidth, even with V/H blanking stripped out and 8b/10b encoding set aside.
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I don't see banding as well as I don't see a big difference between D4 and D3s by looking at this shot...

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For video there is pre-codec color space compression (subsampling) and then codec compression. The D4's HDMI output is 4:2:2, which traditionally is nearly equal to 4:4:4 in terms of IQ and so I have a habit of calling that uncompressed.