尼康旗舰级单反D3x将在6月发布？2440万全画幅

在日本一家著名摄影论坛上，有网友宣称，尼康将在6月份发布旗舰级单反D3x，以满足高档消费者的需求。

目前尼康顶级的数码单反相机D3

著名的dpreview论坛上曾经通过D3新固件破解D3x

传言中提到：Nikon D3x依然会沿用与D3相同的机身，但可能会改用索尼生产的2440万像素全画幅CMOS感光元件。玩家可以选用6048x4032 (24.4MP)，5056x4032 (20.4MP)，4544x3024 (13.7M)，3792x3024 (11.5MP)，3968x2640 (10.5MP)，2976x1976 (5.9MP)，3024x2016 (6.1MP)，3968x2640 (5.1MP)及1984x1320 (2.6MP)分辨率进行拍摄。也就是说，这款D3x实际上也具备了裁切拍摄模式，具体的速度我们目前无法预测。

而且传闻中还提到：尼康方面也有自己的打算，D3x的推出并不意味着目前的主流产品D3会停产退出市场，而是代表着尼康高低端全幅单反产品线会采取齐头并进的策略来打压对手（目前来看，主要是佳能）。

虽然目前该消息还是传言，但让我们一起关注吧。

Forum    Nikon D3/D2/D1
Subject    digtal reality
Posted by    Ednaz  [CLICK FOR PROFILE]
Date/Time    1:07:34 AM, Monday, April 21, 2008 (GMT)
 
 
Dan - I've done a couple shoots with rented digital backs and I was awed and thrilled by the results. (Personal work.) OMG, I can only wish I had clients who valued that image quality enough to pay for it!

But I've also done a number of shoots where I shot medium format film, with the promise of drum scanning, and shot my d2x bodies side by side with medium format film - and the client never even asked for me to do the scans, they grabbed the d2x shots and went to press. That made me sell my MF gear - I was shooting Bronica and the connections to MF digital backs were kludgy.

I've actually, in a fit of pique, slipped several images shot with a 6mp body (d100) and then uprezzed, as 12mp images, to a few of the snotty ignorant art directors. To a person, they had the arrogant foolishness to use those images to lecture me on how valuable the 12mp cameras were - "look at the detail in this, you'd never get this with a 10mp camera..." Shot with a d100, 6mp. Barf. Idiots. It proved that the people who I'm trying to sell to don't rely on their eyes, but instead on some marketing concept of mo' pixels equal mo' betta.

Art directors have always wanted more for less, but since film technologies had been stable for 20 years or so, there was less screwy price pressure. Somehow there's this whole notion of "digital is cheaper" and "more pixels just means add a few megabytes"... Absurd. I'm not a fanatical cost accounting kind of guy, but what I've seen suggests my costs are not much different in total, digital versus film, but the way the money gets spent is radically different.

In shoots where I have some time to control the images, I've started shooting multiple image pano kinds of shots, so that if a client wants lots of space for text it's additive to the core image. That was so hard to do in the film world - in a lot of situations, I have frames that let me scale an image 4x, by adding other frames, if there's a need for text. I'm not sure that a 24mp body would allow me to stop doing that.

I'm craving a Nikon body that makes my 80-200AFS, 70-200 VR, 28-70 AFS and 50 1.4 lenses seem to struggle. No client would give a hoot. But for my personal projects, I'd love to produce images of that complexity.

Dan Wagner wrote:
> I agree with Ednaz and think his comments are the most accurate on
> this topic. On the client side, they don't want to bear the costs for
> the higher quality levels, and many cannot even deal with RAW files.
> Some may argue the photographer should do all the RAW adjusting, but
> in recent years past the photographer was done when he delivered the
> film. Delivering a digital product is much more expensive and time
> consuming, and the clients have for the most part not covered this at
> all.
>
> The better results are with digial backs that cost upwards of 30
> grand -- without a medium format body or lenses. And where's the back
> up back if you're shooting models -- better hope everything works
> flawlessly.
>
> Plus art directors frequently ask you to give them a lot more space
> (pull back) from what the layout requires -- just in case their
> client wants to do more things with the photo -- and of course when
> you pull back and crop later you're reducing the amount of pixels.
>
> The D3x may prove to be something great. Right now I really love my
> D3. I think this is a hard topic to discuss until Nikon releases
> specs.
> --
> Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Nikon Lenses 10.5, 14-24, 24-70 2.8, 70-200 VR,
> 60 2.8 AF-S Micro, 85 1.4 Other brands: Zeiss 50 1.4, Nikon TC-17E II
> 1.7x,Three SB800's, Canon G-9 & Underwater housing, Two Quantum
> 5d-r's, & More.