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New Nikon with built-in projector

New Nikon with built-in projector

Have Nikon’s DSLR plans thru 2010 been leaked? It seems pretty legit to me- I saw it on NikonRumors.com yesterday, and now it’s on WIRED today. Here it is. If so, then sign me up for a D700x. Seems a little too good to be true, being released so soon, but certainly not impossible. I feel bad for Nikon if this is the real deal, and I wonder, if true, how damaging (or beneficial??) will this leak will be to Nikon? It’s a bit like peeking at your Xmas presents in November- it’s good for a bit, but ultimately you always wish you hadn’t done it. Maybe that’s just me. After you’ve got 20+ MP, can practically shoot in the dark, can film movies, what’s left? According to this, you put AF in the movie mode, and you have a built-in HDR mode, merging 2 images in camera for HDR photos. That’s kind of interesting- something that’s usually a Photoshop plug-in now, but not something that seems critical. If I were big into movies maybe the AF would be a big deal, although every movie person I talked to said that it’s not so important or good. I saw that they may start putting in little projectors into their smaller cameras so that you can have a mobile slideshow which sounds pretty cool. But the big deal for me would be if you could have the camera send images wirelessly directly to the internet. How cool would that be for photojournalism/news shooting? Or a better method of captioning images in camera. Again, like the HDR mode, these still aren’t game changers, but it might be cool. Any other ideas of what they could do to a top-end DSLR that would make it better than what it already is?

Written by James

July 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Posted in Gear

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