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I would rather everything go to Thunderbolt 3. It uses the USB Type-C jack, can carry power, and is 40 Gbps. It can connect all of your peripherals, like mice, printers, USB drives. It can be your video output cable to monitors. In fact, some are saying that the monitor could be the new docking station. A single power cable goes from the wall to your monitor. A single Thunderbolt 3 cable from your monitor to your laptop. From your laptop, all of your peripherals are connected. Power flows from the wall to the monitor, then to the laptop, and out to its peripherals.

Camcorder accessories could all move to Thunderbolt 3. For example, an XLR adapter could connect to your camcorder with it, and both audio and power could flow through it. And it could work for all brands and models, given that it's an industry standard. As another example, all power adapters could switch to it, and so power and battery adapters would work across all brands and models. No longer do you have to find a match among a dozen barrel plugs.

The same jack, in other words, could replace all power, input, and output, for all devices: computers, camcorders, phones, you name it. No longer do you have to make sure you carry a power adapter for each device when you go on a trip. You just bring one or two USB-C cables.
 
combatentropy said:
I would rather everything go to Thunderbolt 3. It uses the USB Type-C jack, can carry power, and is 40 Gbps. It can connect all of your peripherals, like mice, printers, USB drives. It can be your video output cable to monitors. In fact, some are saying that the monitor could be the new docking station. A single power cable goes from the wall to your monitor. A single Thunderbolt 3 cable from your monitor to your laptop. From your laptop, all of your peripherals are connected. Power flows from the wall to the monitor, then to the laptop, and out to its peripherals.

Camcorder accessories could all move to Thunderbolt 3. For example, an XLR adapter could connect to your camcorder with it, and both audio and power could flow through it. And it could work for all brands and models, given that it's an industry standard. As another example, all power adapters could switch to it, and so power and battery adapters would work across all brands and models. No longer do you have to find a match among a dozen barrel plugs.

The same jack, in other words, could replace all power, input, and output, for all devices: computers, camcorders, phones, you name it. No longer do you have to make sure you carry a power adapter for each device when you go on a trip. You just bring one or two USB-C cables.
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I don't trust non-locking connectors in a professional environment. One of the biggest downfalls of HDMI.
 
puredrifting said:
Nikon needs to pull their collective heads out, the market is totally bypassing them. It's too bad that they couldn't partner with someone totally unexpected like LG or Apple to bring their expertise in optics and imagers to high end phones. They could have totally jumped on the DSLR revolution and blown away Canon after the 5D MKII. But they demured and missed a huge opportunity to push video capable DSLRs and to expand into video. Sure the newer bodies all shoot video but with very unimpressive specs, they are just playing catch up with Canon, who has also fallen behind with DSLRs. Camera like the 80D, the 1DX II, the 5D MKIV are decent but the world has moved on to what cameras like the Sony A7s, the Fuji XT-2, GH5 give them. I hate to see Nikon fade to black but that's what it is looking like.
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It's especially a shame for Nikon when you consider that they actually introduced the first DSLR with video recording capabilities (the D90) AND they don't have a higher-end video camera (or any video camera) business to protect.
 
DLD said:
To catch up on some (mostly irrelevant) Nikon news.

And, at the same time, there have been no DL sighting. In case, everyone has forgotten, DL is a 1" 4K line that was expected to ship last summer but was delayed first due to the Kumamoto earthquake and then due to some Nikon engineering problems (or so they say).
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So, the rumors are that Nikon will show the DL (no D) line at the CP+ next month and may begin shipping them within a month or so.

43Rumors is rumoring that Panasonic will make own sensors at some point. I guess that's a given, considering that they have been working on an organic sensor with Fuji for about four years now.

A headline from a year ago.

https://petapixel.com/2016/02/03/pa...ors-with-global-shutter-and-100x-sensitivity/
 
Since I mentioned batteries a few posts above - the latest global analysis has the volume costs down to $227 per Kilowatt Hour, down almost 50% in three years and dropping precipitously with both the technological advances and the construction of huge battery manufacturing plants, such as the one that's being built by Tesla in Nevada. What's also interesting is that this hasn't yet translated to the similar expansion of the sales figures for the electric/hybrid automobiles, so these batts may still end up powering the lights and the cameras and whatever else one needs as his tools.
 
DLD said:
So, the rumors are that Nikon will show the DL (no D) line at the CP+ next month and may begin shipping them within a month or so...
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And the official announcement came out that the entire DL line will not be showing up in theaters near you. Their explanation of the down market is a bit iffy.

But they have more bad news. Their lithography business is kind of tanking too, forcing a major write-down.

http://www.nikon.com/news/2017/20170213_1_e.pdf

Financial forecast - http://www.nikon.com/about/ir/ir_library/result/pdf/2017/20170213_e.pdf

Maybe, at some point, Mitsubishi will do something about this.
 
Oh, my... That all sounds really bad for Nikon. As in "we are cutting down business" bad.

Two years ago I would have perceived this as very bad news: one less competitor in the digital camera world, less incentives for the others to innovate. But since Nikon hasn't been doing much that *I* found interesting in the past few years, well, it's not that bad if they go to a corner and leave more room for companies like Sony and Panasonic who seem to be keen on innovating. (Sony, in particular, would benefit a lot from Nikon's demise, I think)
 
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