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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

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Nikon D300 - Actual Photos leaked?

August 20th, 2007 by Os

Nikon D300 Brochure Body

Members of the ClubSnap.com forums have posted what seems to be the actual product of Nikon D300! Unfortunately, the image is a little small to determine the other information on the brochure.

Looks like we should be hearing some announcement from Nikon soon enough!

Nikon D300 Brochure

Update: Looks like this came from Dpreview.com. As the poster has admitted himself, its a fake mockup. Move along, nothing to see here.

Nikon D3 Teaser Ad?

August 19th, 2007 by Os

Nikon D3 Teaser Rumor

Is this a teaser ad from Nikon for the upcoming Nikon D3? The Japanese text on the ad shows the following specs:

  • 51 Auto Focus Points
  • 9 Frames Per Second
  • 3 inch LCD (TFT, 920,000 pixels)

Things are heating up for both Canon and Nikon in the past couple of days!

Source: Digital Photography Blog

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III - 21.1 Megapixel

August 19th, 2007 by Os

More rumors! Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III has been leaked by Amazon too! Leaked or viral marketing? I don’t know but Canon is doing a great job of creating hype for its next releases!

The Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III features a whopping 21.1 Megapixel, full frame goodness, self cleaning CMOS Sensor, 5 Fps, 3 inch Live View LCD.

The expected shipping date is 20th December. Better start saving moolahs for the $7999.99 price tag!

Source: Engadget

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Canon EOS 40D Specifications Leaked by Amazon!

August 19th, 2007 by Os

Canon fans rejoice! Amazon has jumped the gun and released the Canon EOS 40D specs on its website. Apparently it has been taken down now but you can still find the screenshots of the website on Engadget.

Some juicy specifications:

  • New 10.1 megapixel self-cleaning CMOS sensor
  • 30% faster, 9 point Auto Focus (nice!)
  • DIGIC III image processing
  • ISO 3200 max sensitivity
  • improved 3.0-inch LCD with Enhanced Live View (awesome!)
  • 6.5fps continuous shooting
  • 35-zone metering system
  • CF card storage
  • sRAW mode - All the flexibility of full-sized RAW images but at half the file size by cutting down the number of pixels to one-fourth of the standard RAW

Thanks Engadget!

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Rumors: Specs of Sony’s Advanced Amateur Alpha DSLR Leaked!

August 15th, 2007 by Os

Sony’s Advanced Amateur Alpha DSLR

Not to be overshadowed by Canon’s rumors, specifications of the Advanced Amateur Alpha DSLR has been leaked onto the internet. French website www.photoim.net posted the specifications along with some interesting rumors from a person who supposedly has a cousin working in Sony from the Dyxum.com forums.

So if you’re thinking about purchasing a Sony Alpha A100 at the moment, you may want to wait a little longer. Of course, with every rumor you have to take it with a grain of salt until Sony makes the official announcement.

Sources: Engadget, Digital Camera Information

Full specifications after the jump!
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Rumors: Release date of Canon EOS 40D?

August 9th, 2007 by Os

Best Buy - Canon EOS 40D

Last week, rumors of the Canon EOS 40D was plenty. Seems like the EOS 40D release should not be far way. According to the above photo of a Best Buy computer, the “in-stock” date of September 2nd, 2007. The person who took the picture also mentioned that the highly anticipated camera will retail for US$1599.99.

So all you folks waiting for an upgrade or a new DSLR, hang on tight for the release of the Canon EOS 40D!

Source: Engadget, Canon-eos-40d.com

Rumors: Preview images of Canon EOS 40D

August 5th, 2007 by Os

Canon EOS 40D Front

The forums at DPReview.com has been buzzing with rumors of the new Canon EOS 40D. Apparently, user arlekin1976 spotted the images on SLRClub.com. Since then, the pages hosting the images has been taken down but now before other users downloaded the images.

Notably, the Exposure Mode Dial includes 3 custom user settings and there is also a sRAW image format for compressed RAW format.

Engadget is taking the rumors with a grain of salt and they’re usually right. But whoever may have created this images took a lot of effort to do so. More images after the jump!

Source: Engadget
More Info: http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/Canon_40D.html

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