dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

chemprof wrote:
dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

I'm with you there Gerald. No offense to David (Eaglewolf), but but why waste electrons on cats when you can waste led on them instead?!

Andre Labonte wrote:
chemprof wrote:
dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

I'm with you there Gerald. No offense to David (Eaglewolf), but but why waste electrons on cats when you can waste led on them instead?!

Obviously, I wasn't serious either. Just because I don't especially like cats doesn't mean that I think it's o.k. to kill them...

Gerald

chemprof wrote:
dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

HID would add too much weight/bulk and i'd rather not have anything on my camera consuming 10-15W. if the IR assist was like that IR grid from the old sony 707 that would be nice.

i have a HID of diving, now how do i make it part of my d200 so it'll become a d300...

and where do i fit the battery pack? :o(

Andre Labonte wrote:
chemprof wrote:
dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

I'm with you there Gerald. No offense to David (Eaglewolf), but but why waste electrons on cats when you can waste led on them instead?!

Ah, guys - that's funny. In fact it is the same thing my wife said about some of the kids she sees in the grocery stores! She just prefers the 30-06 or the .223 - more punch, you know.

I recently read where Sony has just committed a HUGE amount of money (some 60 billion yen) into CMOS development, which actually positions their investment in this area noticeably higher than Canon's. The marriage Nikon has had with Sony for years means that this is likely very good news.

I think the D200 is one of Nikon's trump cards on competition right now personally. There really isn't a direct competitor in the price range. The 5D is a lot more expensive and frankly isn't a direct competitor anyway. Anyone considering the type of camera that the D200 is - even if soon to be updated - won't regret the purchase imho... it's an outstanding value for the amount of features and handling it offers.

Hmm...I don't know what to say about the specs. D-Lighting is reasonable since they can probably reuse the same chip as the D40(x), D80 etc. and 12MP sounds reasonable because it helps separate the D200 from the D80/D40x. Beyond that...I really dunno.

But, that said, here's a post from DPReview that's ostensibly of a poster in Japan:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=24049215

Image below:

Gustaf Lindber wrote:
I'm planing on buying a D200 next week. Is it worth to wait for this rumoured update?

Buy a D50. You can't go wrong with this cam. It's an amazing little beastie.

This new Nikon won't be available for a long time.

JohnG

allen_a_george wrote:
According to another DPReview poster (Joseph), the text reads:
"The successor of the D200 will be on sale approx. in Fall 2007"

It's all very odd
Sounds about right for the DPR forum

eaglewolf wrote:
Andre Labonte wrote:
chemprof wrote:
dinoadventures wrote:
louis fusco wrote:
if they put cam 2000ish in a d200 something can you imagine what they have planed for the D3's...

i'll bet it could track a black cat in a coal mine.

Maybe. As long as it has either built-in IR assist or an HID spot beam trained on the cat. How 'bout a red laser dot from the laser sighted .357? (just don't forget to pull the trigger).

Gerald

I'm with you there Gerald. No offense to David (Eaglewolf), but but why waste electrons on cats when you can waste led on them instead?!

Ah, guys - that's funny. In fact it is the same thing my wife said about some of the kids she sees in the grocery stores! She just prefers the 30-06 or the .223 - more punch, you know.



David, I have the same thought about a lot of kids I see, seeing as I'm pretty strict with my own ... of course if the kids are young, I shoot the parents.

Who said anything about joking with regards to shooting cats!! Of course whatever the gun, the ammo must be hollow-point!!!

Andre Labonte wrote:
Of course whatever the gun, the ammo must be hollow-point!!!


Yes, with a mix of Glaser's thrown it too.

Meanwhile, back on the serious side...All this talk about a new D200 is interesting though. I know we tend to go overboard with the rumors, and this might be no different, but a few new useful features, less noise, etc. could make a great camera even better. I'd love to see the CAM 2000 AF system in there too, but not if the price jumped to $2500 - $3000 or more.

Otherwise I'm happy where I'm at with my cameras. (Okay, so I'd jump at the chance to add a D2X/s or F6 to my bag, but let's be reasonable about this.) Having two nearly identical cameras does have a certain appeal. Adding glass is always the best investment as we often say here. More than likely that will be where my camera resources will be concentrated for a while.

But you never know.

Guess I'll just buy the D200 and hope Nikon does a D70 to D70s upgrade again so I can get most of the new fancy stuff from the D200x by just upgrading the firmware.

firmware upgrades for 10mp cameras to make it a 12mp camera can only be done on Canon cameras I heard somewhere, extra value added value they add

any kind of firmware upgrade would be exciting