Nikon is again dropping short pieces of messages about their upcoming mirrorless launch. In an Interview at ORF (Austrian television) Wolfgang Lutzky from Nikon Austria said that Nikon would enter the mirrorless market and they could give more news about that at the next presentation of financial results in March. P.S.: Nikon’s financial year ends on March 31, 2011.
That statement fits perfectly with what our sources told us. The new mirrorless ystem will be launched in April!
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Those old rangefinder cameras are really appealing to the eye.
Some are not even that old – a few Nikon S3s were made in 2000 and a limited edition of the SP2 in 2004.
They truly are.
Keep the form factor, just throw in a digital FF sensor. This really is what the market wants.
I hope this camera has a viewfinder NOT just a rear LCD and also inbody image stabilization similar to Olympus and not in lens stabilization.
Those Nikon rangefinders bring tears to my eyes.. WE WANT A FULL FRAME DIGITAL RANGEFINDER from Nikon. OMG, I would scream till my vocalcords was torn out if this came true, AND, I would of course BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY!!!
Meanwhile, in reality, Nikon continue to release countless, useless, point and shoots with nonsense cryptic names like S6100 and gimicky features.
Fingers crossed there is at least one engineer working in the nikon labs that actually remember what real cameras were like… even 10 years ago.
I’ve been waiting for a FF mirrorless camera as well, but I doubt a company will enter into the mirrorless market without testing a 1.5x crop one on the market first. A FF version would probably cost around $2000 and would be a huge risk.
What market risk? This is what I don’t understand; Leica’s M9 is so god damned popular that dealers are all perpetually out of stock and there’s a 3-8 month waiting period to get one.And if you want lenses, it’s even more of a wait.
I understand the role of target market size and how Leica’s manufacturing low quantities, but still…. there’s obviously demand for the absurdly expensive $7,000 camera–I’m pretty sure that a FF compact will sell extremely well, even if it sold for half of the Leica.
There’s low risk here.
I would have thought $2000 min for a FF mirrorless, Nikon wouldn’t wont to cannibalise dlsr sales, and with the only other FF mirrorless at £8000 they have a lot of headroom for max prices, i would guess about 3-4g if they went the FF route.
I’m so glad I found my soliuotn online.
“… more news about that at the next presentation of financial results in March. P.S.: Nikon’s financial year ends on March 31, 2011.”
How can there be new financial results in March if the financial year ends on March 31st? That does not seem credible to me.
how do you see focus and depth of field with an optical viewfinder on a rf? does it show this or do you have to learn it and go by judgement?
On a real RF you align two images in the viewfinder for focus. The second image shows up on a smaller patch inside the VF. DOF can be read from a scale on the lens on most classic lenses.
Everytime a camera with a small sensor is launched, it’s getting badly hurt by it’s sensors size. If Nikon should occupy a space for their mirrorless camera, either the sensor got to be smaller than MFT, or larger than APS-C. There is absolutely no reason to parallell track with an APS-C.
Nikon, go FF with your system. Create an adapter for Leica M upfront.
Show us what an CMOS sensor can do with an ILC´.
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If its anything like a digital version of the Nikon cameras in the photo – with similar build quality nd manual controls – put me down for one black and one silver :-).