An official Nikon 1 design patent
Nikonrumors reports that the Nikon 1 J5 announcement may be coming in few weeks already. And this could be also the first Nikon camera capable of recording 4K video. Although I don’t expect Nikon to deliver a high quality 4K video as delivered by Panasonic or Sony.
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“a high quality 4K video as delivered by Panasonic or Sony”
What about Samsung? 🙂
Hmmm. I accept the data – but I don’t think the conclusion is correct.
Obviously all else being equal, what matters is the INSTALLED BASE of cameras, in the population of photo journalists. DSLRs have been around for much longer than mainstream Mirrorless (i.e. excluding medium format here). Therefore DSLRs probably continue to dominate the installed base of ILCs used by photojournalists. Therefore all else being equal, DSLRs continue to dominate the contests. Duh.
Based on CIPA data we can estimate the total DSLR installed base, world-wide, to around 110 million units. We don’t have data for many years on mirrorless but the installed base must be closer to 15 units, perhaps a bit more, so about 13 TIMES LESS.
Even if we look only at DSLRs no older than, say, 5 years, we still have an installed base of perhaps 75 million, i.e. 5 TIMES LARGER than the installed base or mirrorless cameras.
And today despite the big decline in DSLR sales vs. stable sales of mirrorless, in 2014 this still meant 10 million new DSLRs vs. 3.2 million mirrorless. So if these trends continue then we can at best hope to see Mirrorless attract about 1/4th of the prizes. And that’s assuming that photojournalists are as open-minded as the general camera-buying population, which may or may not be true.
So it will take some time to move the needle!
Still, this chart shows a Leica, a medium format, two Olympus mirrorless, and an iPhone. And it’s just the beginning.
Oh Nikon…
The dial should be around the shutter button like Olympus E-M1 has (best design ever).
The mode dial should have been just a rear dial like in E-M1, place the mode dial then to software menus where you get quick access to it with touch screen, unless the thump on right side is second rear wheel? Should be larger and open like E-M1 does it.
Very nice touch with the Nikon red stripe on left top part.
And flipping screen? Nice!
A pop-up flash? Double nice!
But now it is clear that Nikon own mirrorless camera is Nikon 1 and Canon has the EOS M. Both striking exactlyagainst the m4/3 cameras size and weight class. Trying to wash those out quickly. And then make a mirrorless models from their top dogs with identical body and flange sizes.
” Although I don’t expect Nikon to deliver a high quality 4K video as delivered by Panasonic or Sony”
We’ve to take into consideration that Jx are the lower end models of Nikon 1 system and targeting the mass consumer segment of the market that values automatic for almost everything and cheap stuff.
So a lot of facilities and controls are not in the basket and 4K “quality” must be considered only in relation sensor and algorithms contribution to a non prosumer or/and non professional audiences.
At the end what would be the Panasonic and Sony models to compare to?