It is just one problem, Samsung was company who made sensor and LSI and progressed very fast.
Nikon do not make sensors (despite recent PR piece by IR) and also lacks in LSI design (and can't make them). Only strong point are the mechanical parts that are much fewer in mirrorless cameras.
Expected UK prices
So, it is not announcement, it is stupid teaser
Announcement can be within one week only.
Idea can be to steal attention from Canon.
The upcoming mirrorless full-frame camera is rumored to be the most expensive Nikon marketing campaign ever with bloggers meetups in exotic locations and maybe even some celebrities involvement.
Exactly as I told.
Top management want to replace camera progress with posh totty.
Expected prices
Overall - cameras will be made for and aimed for rich people who want to show their status.
Another update
- Nikon will release two different mirrorless full frame cameras
- One lower res sensor - 24-25MP and another 45-48MP
- Small bodies ala Sony a7 cameras
- 5-axis in-body stabilization
- 9fps
- 4k video
- Memory cards: XQD and CF Express
- EVF resolution: 3.6 million dots
- Nikon is putting a lot of emphasis and effort into the shooting experience of the new mirrorless camera. The camera was designed with ergonomics in mind.
Nikon registered very strange brand - Noct (both or lenses and cameras).
Rumors update
- There will be two cameras at launch
- The first cameras will ship during the first half of 2019
- The new mount name is NOT Z-mount
- Will have new sensor optimized for autofocus speed. Megapixels will be less than the 46MP from the D850
- The design is somewhere in between the modern Sony A7 and the more classic Fuji X cameras.
- The viewfinder is in the middle just like the Sony A7 series.
Things seems to be bad.
If you see top manager promising camera one year ahead it mean serious troubles.
More rumors from Japanese
http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/180423/bsb1804230500001-n3.htm
@Firworks the odds are very VERY high that Nikon will produce their own adapter to do that. They don't want to leave behind millions of lenses used by Nikon fans.
What are the odds that there'll be an adapter so I can use my old screw drive Nikkor AF glass with it? 0%? Negative %?
Sounds interesting though. I would definitely consider a Nikon mirrorless as long as it had decent video chops. I shot Nikon before I went to M4/3.
Nikkei posted strange remark that Nikon will really release mirrorless FF camera.
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO28850970R30C18A3EA4000/
Lenses for Nikon mirrorless camera/lenses are rumored to have TWO electric AF motors - each driving a separate group of lens elements. New "internal focusing" technology, where TWO groups of lens elements will be moved independently from each other.
Btw, Panasonic uses same tech for quite long time in their camcorders.
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