Nikon announces new D4 camera!!

[Adelastro1]

Nikon today announced their new pro camera, the D4. Among the new features (over the D3/D3s) that might be handy for astrophotography is an incredible maximum ISO rating of 204,800 and internal time lapse shooting!

Nikon states - "Time lapse shooting - This new feature combines a selected frame rate and “shooting interval” in a dedicated time lapse photography menu. Playback can be achieved with a wide variety of speeds from 24x to 36,000x while producing a fully finished movie file output for faster multimedia workflows."

I think I want one... only catch it's $6000 in the US! :sadeyes:

[Poita]

Video guys will like this, the uncompressed HDMI output is extremely useful.
Nice to see an ethernet port as well for tethered operation.

Hopefully it will mean an upgrade to the prosumer line in the next 6 months.

[renormalised]

Now, that's going to be some camera!!!!

Hopefully it won't be too dear......I'm expecting up in the $8K mark.

[skysurfer]

Looks good !

But they strangely stick to CF cards why not SD(HC/XC) cards ? But this is to overcome with an adapter.
Fortunately not too many MP 16 is enough and has the advantage to push to ISO200k.

Now the next FF beast, the D800 is yet to come .....

[DavidTrap]

Looks nice, but I'm still waiting for the D800.

Canon boys are quiet this morning!:P

Skysurfer - it has a new sort of high speed card that supercedes the SD card.

DT

[Octane]

Nah, read about this yesterday.

Has it officially been announced, or is it just a reiteration of the Nikon Rumors site?

It's essentially Nikon's answer to the 1D-x which Canon announced months ago (albeit with Nikon having 2 megapixels less density). No real surprises there. Both cameras suited for photojournalists and sports photographers, just in time for the Olympics.

So, the megapixel wars will be fought out with the 5D Mark III and D800.

H

[renormalised]

It's been officially announced, H.

[Octane]

Oh, cool.

A rumour site got it right.

Mind blown.

H

[Paul Haese]

It's going to need a lot more new features for me to upgrade from my D3 which cost 7K 2.5 years ago. Usable ISO is what is important for me. I am supposing it will be around the 12,000 mark without much noise. That would be a nice improvement. Talk of ISO200,000 is really not usable. Far too much noise for my taste, but the lower end will be a marked improvement and that is what attracts photographers.

[Marke]

Hmm almost worth trading my D2X and D700 for , wonder how much I could get :D

[Adelastro1]

Haha I didn't think you would be upgrading your D3 just yet! And yes you're right, the ISO 200,000 really won't be usable but hopefully the 12,800 and maybe slightly above that will be better. I hope some of these features filter down to new mid range models, such as the anticipated D800!

[renormalised]

The new Canon is native up to 51200.

[traveller]

Wow nice specs, but wwwayyyy out of my reach.
Can't wait for the DP review.
Bo

[skysurfer]

Consider the ISO 200k as an 'emergency' option, not for astro imaging. You'll get newspaper images. This is also possible with other SLRs, I pushed my 40d to ISO 200k as well with the 'Exposure' option of Photoshop.

[renormalised]

Hmmm...very noisy.

Although, I wonder what would happen if you modded a D4 or 1D-X and cooled it as well. It would make a difference, but why go to the trouble when a CCD would be better and cheaper. Mind you, a CCD with as many MP's would cost even more than the cameras!!!!. Plus, you'd be nuts to mod those cameras in the first place!!!.

[renormalised]

In any case, at ISO200K, out at a dark site and with a fast lens (say a f/1.8 or f/1.4) around the 18-50mm mark, you'd overexpose the piccie just running the camera with a normal shutter speed, never mind sticking it on bulb!!!!:):P