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full frame? good good good. time for 1Ds to drop its price.
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No... Nikon is sticking with the 1.5x sensor and apparently not planning to go full frame, well not just yet.
However, it might be on their "To Do" list... see this article on their sensor research:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0307/03071802nikonsensor.asp
You never can tell!!!
Ah, but one must understand, geekboys and technonerds (aka pillocks and wankers) have many rituals of proving their geekdom; having the latest scope of the "greatest" and latest is one of them (nevermind the accuracy, so long it's plausible), among other practices like amassing toys they either don't need or not having the faintest idea of how to use it, spending $100 for a $5 gizmo just because it a) is from a brand name company, b) it's made from whachamcallit unobtanium, or both, searching the whole country for a particular widget even if there're others that can do the job, or getting the flashiest bit of equipment for simple stuff, because they say it's the best etc.
:rbounce:Originally posted by Larry
what's that odd looking white spot just above the Nikon sign, on the prism/viewfinder portion of the camera? looks weird (the spot that is, not the cam - that looks like a beau).
Assumption on my part but I reckon it should be some form of a WB sensor (just like the secondary WB sensor found on the 1Ds, the 10D has one but it is an AF assist light). Btw, if that is truly a WB sensor, anyone noticed or has a theory why it is located so near the prism? Hmm ...
There is another red LED thingy on the right that looks like an IR AF assist light to me (something like the one found on the SB-80DX but smaller?).
Something in me tells me that it is going to have a WB design not seen in other bodies. Nikon is surely moving a step further towards the right direction.
Actually there have been plenty of cameras that toyed with an external white balance and then gave it up for a TTL white balance measurement. Kodak were notable for their early external white balance sensors, but they ditched it in their later cameras, for example the 14n has white balance through the lens.
So no, it's not exactly revolutionary. A bit of a step backwards even, but then TTL WB has been far from satisfactory so perhaps going back to square one might work. Except that the major flaw with incident WB measurement is the same as that of incident WB exposure meters...
Perhaps it will be used in tandem with the TTL information...
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