When Canon announced the outlandish 1DX, you could be sure Nikon wouldn’t be too far behind. Now, specs of the new D4 are leaking, and it looks like it could be a close fight between the two.
According to Nikon Rumors, the hotly anticipated D4 will feature a 16.2-megapixel sensor, an 11fps burst mode, and a native ISO range of between 100 and 102,400. There’s also an expansion option that can allow ISO 204,800. To be honest, I’m not sure quite how useful that’s going to be — at such high ISO rating, can a camera deliver images that are even useful? I’m not convinced, but I’m more than happy to be proven wrong.
Just to be clear, we’re not sure what the D4 will look like — the image above is of the current D3.
Elsewhere, the D4 will also have an integrated Ethernet port and be compatible with CompactFlash XQD memory cards. There are also a bunch of unspecified tweaks to the 51-point autofocus array, improvements to video capture, and, uh, face detection. You can read the full run-down at Nikon Rumours.
All in, it sounds like a pretty exciting package. My only concern is whether some of the specs are really required. Let’s wait and see. [Nikon Rumours]
Sam D
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 8:35 AMWhen you look at this as Nikon’s flagship camera, I’d say the specs are more than required. Now while I don’t like the whole megapixel arms race, I would rather see this at around 18MP than the 16.2 that is rumoured.
I also wonder if they’ll bring out a D4x version for studio use. It seems to me like this camera is more aimed at sports shooters (which makes sense with the olympics coming up next year). Something with the D800 specs (rumoured), with the additional features of this (ie. Full Body, ethernet, etc).
Drew
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 9:27 AMMeh, wake me up when teh D800 arrives.
If it is anything like the D3 and D700, the D800 will be twice as good at half the price.
Jamie
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 9:43 AMAs a wedding photographer, I’ve been hanging out for this to be released for a while now. Trust me, the ISO stuff is useful. While I’d probably never shoot it at 102,400, the larger the native ISO range usually means the better the quality photo at the lower settings. So a photo at ISO 3200 on this should be much better than an ISO 3200 photo on a D3.
mhz
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 5:30 PM+1
Tom
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:59 PMDoes it have Auto setting?
Heisenburg
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:22 AMI’m sure it does, but it shouldn’t!