New Nikon D-SLR

(phantom5815) · (phantom5815) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 07-20-2006, 7:50 PM

In less than 3 wks there is going to be a new Nikon 10.2 megapixel digital camera out

Rumor has it that it will be D60/D80 or D30/D90???
Definitely cheaper than a D200

http://www.nikon-euro.com/DoesNotDisappoint/

(Message edited by phantom5815 on July 20, 2006)

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 07-21-2006, 10:48 AM

i read about it a while ago, but i read it was going to be a d80. but, we all know how people make assumptions all the time...

(phantom5815) · (phantom5815) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 07-27-2006, 5:42 AM

I guess they are calling it D80. Here's some insight, but I couldn't find the picture comparisons:
http://www.photim.net/nci/discu.php3?code=20060706071502MIKL#O147

Translation from Thom Hogan:

* DOF preview button
* Possible FUNC button
* Front Command dial
* IR remote and wired remote
* SD card, not CF

* New AF button on top plate, probably selects something like Wide/Regular or Group/Dynamic/Single

* Top LCD illumination position on power switch
* D200-style diopter setting
* Some back, top buttons moved around

* New lens, definitely goes beyond 70mm (3-digit top number at top end). Lens looks ED and AF-S to me (that's an A/M switch you see), but NOT VR, so possibly 18-200mm AF-S. And it looks like it's the D50 kit lens type of AF-S (slower, no manual focus override).

Also:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d80.htm

(Message edited by phantom5815 on July 27, 2006)