{"id":1891,"date":"2007-03-10T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masterchong.com\/mig\/is-nikon-to-release-an-18-megapixel-d3\/"},"modified":"2013-12-15T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:43:38","slug":"is-nikon-to-release-an-18-megapixel-d3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/is-nikon-to-release-an-18-megapixel-d3\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nikon to release an 18-megapixel D3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span style=\"color: #008000\">I have no idea how<br \/>\ntrue this is but things may turn out just nice if they are going to release it<br \/>\nsoon as to compete with Canon\u0092s 10 fps blazing Mark III Sniper ! If the<br \/>\nspecification and price is as what is mentioned, this honey will, theoretically,<br \/>\noutperform the Mark III. A FF (Full Frame) dSLR with the option of 1.5x crop<br \/>\nfactor when shooting at high fps makes thing 100% sweeter!<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<em>7 March 2007<\/em> &#8211; It seems that diehard Nikon fans are<br \/>\nstill holding out for a full-frame DSLR, despite the company&#39;s emphasis on its<br \/>\ncommitment to a smaller sensor size. <\/p>\n<p>Now one website has details of a rumored D3, a successor to the D2X, that was<br \/>\napparently unveiled to sales representatives in California. <\/p>\n<p>A man called Jim Seaholm says that the specifications include a full-frame<br \/>\nsensor, although for high speed shooting a 1.5x crop factor will be applied. <\/p>\n<p>Most controversially of all, the report says that it will have 18.7MP of<br \/>\nresolution. <\/p>\n<p>The price for this monster? $8000, around the same amount as Canon&#39;s 1Ds Mark<br \/>\nII. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the mole reported that two lenses are in the pipeline, one a 50mm<br \/>\n1.2G AF-S lens, and the other a 24-120 2.8G AF-S. <\/p>\n<p>Although this may indeed turn out to be &quot;vaporware&quot;, one thing is for<br \/>\ncertain, and that&#39;s that the top two camera makers are predicted to add<br \/>\nconsiderable pixels to their sensors in the next iteration of professional<br \/>\ncameras &#8211; Canon&#39;s next pro camera is rumored to have 22MP of resolution,<br \/>\nbringing it up to medium-format quality.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nSource: photographypress.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how true this is but things may turn out just nice if they are going to release it soon as to compete with Canon\u0092s 10 fps blazing Mark III Sniper ! If the specification and price is as what is mentioned, this honey will, theoretically, outperform the Mark III. A FF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6321,557],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikon","tag-canon","tag-mark-iii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}