According to digicame-info(google translated) Nikon D800 will have 36 Megapixel Sensor, expected date of Nikon D800 announcement – October 26.
About D3S successor (Nikon D4) will be released next February with 18 Megapixel Sensor.
Nikon D800 Major Specification (translated by google)
- 36 Megapixel CMOS FX Sensor
- 4 frames per second continuous shooting at FX format, 6 frames per second at DX format, with the optional Multi-Power Battery Pack.
- Shutter durability of 200,000 cycles.
- Full HD video recording – 1920 × 1080/30p
- Dual card Slot (CF and SD)
- USB 3.0 and a New small wireless transmitter
- Market price is about 300,000 yen. The announcement on October 26, released on November 24.
Seems unlikely but if 36 Megapixels were true then probably Zero light sensitivity comes with that.
In good light i can get great photos on any camera phone. What these people should be doing is clustering pixels to do some intelligent noise analysis and produce a phenomenal 12 Megapixel sensor instead of a useless 36 megapixel one. 3 is the minimum size cluster to determine noise and brightness.
Could not agree more. I doubt if the vast majority of Nikon or Sony lenses could even resolve 36MP crammed into the standard FX sensor. I would rather have a camera with a 16-18MP sensor without an AA filter that gave me sharp and clean images at ISO 6400.
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