I'll be purchasing an HD DSLR, at the latest, in June of this year. All signs point to the imminent D400 having full HD video and manual control, perhaps exceeding the 7D in quality. I'm really, really hoping Nikon announces the D400 soon for a summer/late spring release as I already have Nikon glass, much prefer the ergonomics and aesthetics of Nikons, and, as I'm already familiar with Nikon DSLR shooting, I think I'd be more comfortable using the D400 than the 7D. Plus, I don't want to buy an expensive Nikon G to EOS lens adapter to use the 7D.
What do you guys think? Will Nikon release the D400 soon? How much lag time is there usually between announcement and release?
What do you guys think? Will Nikon release the D400 soon? How much lag time is there usually between announcement and release?
. It would not improve the idea that the product is a video camera and that Panasonic could be trusted to make a pure product for that market. So I don't think Nikon need to rush but probably will wait till they can do Video properly and maybe will never put emphasis on it at all if they want to market themselves as a pure product for serious and pro consumer photographers. I'm not saying it won't happen but for Nikon to hold the market share in cameras it might not need to focus on it or at least if they do they might not put pro video fuctions on their cameras and marketing it as such. In my opinion these companies would probably be best to somehow separate the products specifically making a distintion between DSLR's and VDSLR's. They could protect there market and capture the newer one as well by properly implementing video into a DSLR type body and so not irking their established customer. Maybe what they are and will do is implement Video mainly on their more consumer stripped down DSLR's to seperate the function form the Pro line. Just some thoughts to look at things in a slightly different way.