mawz wrote:
If Sony's doing all the R&D, why don't the Sony versions match the IQ of the Nikon's? The A700 (which uses a variant of the D300 & D90 sensors) can't match the D300 in IQ, especially at high ISO's. Sure the Sensor is a Sony, but all the rest of the R&D is Nikon's.
D3's also a Nikon-designed sensor.
umm its the lenses...nikons are better than the minolta/sonys
They're better than most of the Canons too. So are the flashes, and the wireless built-in flash commander, and the build, and the ergonomics, and the... oh, never mind. You don't have a clue.
If you're too stupid to realize that competition is good for you, and you're fat-dumb-and-happy enough to think that we're still in the 1980's where competitors don't sometimes collaborate for mutual gain and opportunity, then you go ahead and stick your head in the sand... the rest of us will be out taking pictures with whatever tools we need to do it best.
I have also heard the rumors but in the form of a 45 megapixels sensor. The rumor I heard was about a medium format camera to compete with digital Hasselblad.
I do not know if the sensor will be placed in a rangefinder camera.
I guess we will have to wait.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.
My two-bits worth of idle speculation: it won't be a rangefinder. Nikon's expertise and major market is in the SLR arena, and they're still #2 to Canon in many business metrics. From where I sit in the consumer space (and without knowing everything they know), it would appear to be a distraction, a division of resources, and a loss of focus to enter a whole new market. So I think that, whatever they create, they're going to put it into an SLR.
I also note that Nikon outshone Canon these last two years with announcements of killer products, so something to take the 1Ds3 on directly, and make it look bad, is what I'd expect. Just like the D3 made high-ISO news and made 25,600 usable, having Nikon leapfrog Canon's 21MP with a 30+ MP sensor would not be a surprise. That they'd go as far as 41MP, while also adding sensor area to create the "MX" sensor size definition, would be a great surprise (great as in large, and great as in good).
