Nikon D3x coming soon?

Author:

Olivier Laurent

The chatter is picking up about a new Nikon pro camera being released soon. Engadget, a subsidiary of AOL, is reporting sightings of the 24.5 million pixel resolution digital SLR, the D3x. While press contacts at Nikon UK are keeping quiet at the moment, it is the company itself that leaked the news through its own professional magazine. And if that wasn't enough, both Nikon USA and Nikon Germany websites have momentarily made available online pages about the D3x. Of course, the pages were take down within hours, but that was not fast enough for the thousands of photography fans who spend hours looking for any new product.

Hints of the new camera were even revealed in a Nikon D3 firmware update in April. Some clever photographers had found in that firmware the mention of a 24.4 million pixel resolution D3x DSLR. At the time we wrote: 'Nikon cameras, such as the D40 and its update the D40x, often share similar firmwares suggesting that the D3 firmware was developed alongside a new D3X model. If so, the D3X could be released later this year.' (BJP, 23 April)

The same happened in August when both Nikon and Canon were about to announce their D90 and 5D Mark II respectively. And the Nikon D700 wasn't spared either with a complete list of features made public weeks before Nikon officially announced the camera. Of course, Nikon and Canon are not the only victims: Sony also saw its Alpha 900 camera leaked a few days before launch.

With the exponential rise of the Internet, is the age of press embargoes over? If we come to think of it, with the thousands of employees Nikon has working on new products (from the conception to the promotion) in dozens of countries, isn't the news of a new product bound to be leaked before its official announcement? Websites have even been created by fans to collect all of these rumours.

Anyway, if you head over to Engadget's website, you'll learn all about this 24.5 million pixel resolution camera with a 5fps burst rate (or 7fps at 10 megapixels), an ISO range of 50-6400, 51 AF points, Live View, scene recognition features and a 3-inch wide monitor.

Or maybe Nikon leaked a fake pro magazine and two web pages to throw all of us off-track...

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