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Nikon to announce D3 and D300 tomorrow?

August 22nd, 2007 by Os

Nikon D300 Brochure Body

Engadget reports the possibility of Nikon announcing 2 new cameras to the DSLR family, Nikon D3 and Nikon D300. Nikon will also be announcing 5 new lenses together. Supposedly, the big announcement will be going down at 1pm in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Engadget

Rumored specs after the jump!

D3

  • Full frame (FX) 12 megapixel Nikon CMOS
  • Live view LCD
  • 9fps in FF mode, 11fps in HSC mode (at 1.5 crop factor / DX size)
  • ISO 200 - 6400 with LO (ISO 100 equivalent), H1 and H2 (ISO 12800 / 25600, respectively)
  • 51 point autofocus system (15 cross sensor)

D300

  • DX format 12 megapixel CMOS (supposedly possibly the same as the D2X)
  • Live view LCD
  • 6fps, up to 8fps with power grip (no HSC mode)
  • ISO 200 - 3200 with LO (ISO 100 equivalent), H1 (ISO 6400)
  • 51 point autofocus system (15 cross sensor)

And five new rumored lenses: AF-S 14-24/2.8 G, AF-S 24-70/2.8 G, AF-S VR 400/2.8 G, AF-S VR 500/4 G, AF-S VR 600/4 G.

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