New Nikon Camera - dec 1 - most likely video

I am going to have to jump in and say the red cams are professional cams and not consumer cameras. HD prosumer cameras start around $4500 so if red wants to come out with a better than what we have now prosumer camera for 7k-10k after all the extras what is wrong with that? These video cameras are not for hv20 owners like me, but they are going after hvx200 market we are talking $5500 cameras that only have native 720p chips! So I agree I would like a $3000 scarlet next month, but geez these cameras are way better in a lot of ways than what is available now. The major players in the video market would have nickel and dimed us to death.

With all that said if Nikon releases a 1080p24/30 slr for under $3000 with some better manual features,less compression, reduced jello vision I am all over it. :)
 
Nik Manning said:
but geez these cameras are way better in a lot of ways than what is available now.
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I think this is the point though.... on paper it all looks great but it still some way off and expected to change again and again.

I think it is a risky gameplan by Red... the 1st time around it was a novelty as they were really creating waves in a stale industry, but now that you can go and grab a 5D or possibly a pro nikon DSLR with video in the next month or two.... they are unlikely to get people to hold onto their cash unless they get something out soon.

the minute I stopped paying much attention to Red was when their spokesman said that he was embarssed for Canon on the launch of the 5d II.... then the next day or two totally scrapped months of scarlett planning off the back of Canon's news.
 
There's speculation that the photo was simply a cut and paste photoshop version of the old D3 to just 'get an image up.."...

You can bet it will have a video function, everyone wants it, right?
 
I'm pretty sure thats just some photoshop frankensteining to throw nikons rumors off the scent...

They WILL hook us up with a vid/dslr. How else are they going to get our money?

It'll be the 1080p version, 24p, but still no manual controls. It'll be ONLY a HAIR better than Canon, and there will be totally rigged tests online that show us nothing about the refresh rate of the sensor...
 
I want the highest frame rates possible from which we can select down.

I shoot sports so it's nice to be able to see the action and not just blurs.

I'm not always trying to make the next Blair Witch.
 
I believe that picture was from a European Nikon website but has been confirmed to be identical in every way except the D3x logo as a certain D3 stock image. It is speculated that it was a mock up photoshop job done by someone at Nikon. The image has since been pulled. IIRC, YMMV, etc, etc.

I am not sure that the D3x will have video, but it probably will. I would guess any XLR inputs would use a mini-cable or adapter, pro still photogs would be pissed about the wasted space... Price point will probably be a little more than an HPX170 + Firestore, it will not be a cheap camera.
 
The existing D3 sells for between $4,000-$5,000 for just the body, so the updated one will cost quite a bit more.
 
ESTEBEVERDE said:
I want the highest frame rates possible from which we can select down.

I shoot sports so it's nice to be able to see the action and not just blurs.

I'm not always trying to make the next Blair Witch.
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Blurs don't have anything to do with framerate at all. Fast shutter speed = little blur.
 
he said he wanted to see the action and not just blurs. i think you missed the first half. sure you can shoot 1 fps at 1/1000s to avoid blur but how much of the action does that capture? i totally understand what he meant.
 
I've found out thats hard to anticipate what's Nikon is planning, D3x, D4, or something else...

They are going for new ventures besides cameras,
look at their 'odd announcement' from October (its a consumer product, but can be used for monitoring audiovideo? it has a wireless and NTSC input after all)

so Dec 1st can be anything, to me they are cooking something more than a D3 with an updated sensor

The only problem is that they took a very bad timing to play like Sony, with all economies sinking and big stores going bankrupt... maybe Dec 1st can be nothing, or everything, hard to guess
 
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