Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/28

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Nikon's got something..........
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri Nov 28 20:40:46 2008
References: <020901c9517f$77a68cf0$80f510ac@chris0436b6050> <440b792d0811281712y1a438d36q880fd2dd5a477d92@mail.gmail.com> <3cad89990811281927qf3b2070jf82e7fe0d74376ee@mail.gmail.com> <440b792d0811282009s7466fcf9r4e12a16e79dab78f@mail.gmail.com>

The official spec sheet says "exclusive sensor" so there is speculation on
this. I really dont know one way or the other, and I dont care. The official
brochure is reproduced here:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=30172171

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jaynand, you can believe what you want but this is the sony chip that is in
> a900
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I believe it is not the Sony chip. Sure they can charge over $5000, if it
> > is
> > good enough. Sony seems to have limitations above ISO400 according to
> > reviews...I bet Nikon delivers clean files at ISO 1600. It also has a
> crop
> > mode at 10mp.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:42 AM, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > the d3x is out, 24 meg like the sony iso to 1600, good studio camera
> and
> > > daylight use, unlike sony, nikon has limited the iso to 1600. the
> > question
> > > is can they ask 5k for it when sony is asking 3k?
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Chris Williams <
> > > leicachris@worldnet.att.net
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > D3 prices today - $4199
> > > >
> > > > D700 - $2400
> > > >
> > > > Something's coming I think even before the BIG announcement.
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > > NOLA
> > > >
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> > > --
> > >  -------------------------------------
> > >  regards, mehrdad
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>
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In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams) ([Leica] OT: Nikon's got something..........)
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] OT: Nikon's got something..........)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] OT: Nikon's got something..........)
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] OT: Nikon's got something..........)