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So the news is out on the latest Nikon gear ..... a lineup of 6 new point and shoot camera's.... whoopie!

There you have it.

that's it?

Another round of anticipation for the D800 fizzles away?

I am sticking to what I have said in my $0.02 (spanning about a page) on NikonRumors

http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/24/the-a ... ent-154430
(wait for the page to load, there is a lot of outcries from disgruntled Nikon fans)

if you're implying that Nikon is playing a waiting game, then I dont see that as a good strategy. Tech product life cycles are short. People who spend on items will spend good money, and once you lose that chance to get a customer, you may lose them for good to a competitor with the next big and new thing.

All a competitor has to do is launch a great product and start scooping up all the momentum and market share and then you are playing catch up. Playstation and Apple are good at this.

If Canon releases a great new FX camera, people who buy it wont switch over to Nikon if they release a slightly better tech spec camera 3 months later.

must say I have really enjoyed reading rumors/opinions the past month as I am not getting rid of my D700's anytime soon. The guy running nikonrumors seems to know what he is talking about.

Yes, that is exactly what I am thinking and not three month later, but couple of weeks later.
Not for a second I will believe that camera manufacturers are giving us their best technology with the new releases.
Those enhanced modifications of the semi-pro and pro- bodies may just come sooner, like right with the original product,
without any indication that there should have been anything less.

Switching systems, especially pro-system is a very costly business.
Not only that, but rush into purchasing AND switching to different brand, before waiting what your currently preferred brand has to offer, is a bit unwise, to put it mildly.
The top pro- bodies of Canon and Nikon are amazingly good cameras. I can't even dream about D3 and not buying D700 only because successor should be out soon.
But it is in human nature to often want "more", so demand drives the production and marketing is fooling around with our pockets.

So, not exactly a waiting game, but "who blinks first" game.
As I've said, it is a gamble, but likely well calculated one.
Nikon corp does not strike me like bunch of fools, however badly we might think about them for releasing pink p&s cameras

D3 was released in time for Beijing Olympics and there's the 2012 Games in London coming up. Hmmm....I'd bet there'll be a pro dslr announcement either Q4 2011 or Q1 2012. Hope the engineers from Japan worked in a few of my suggestions

+1

After going through the DX-FX upgrade I would suggest to worry about the lenses first. If you're sitting on a 24-70,70-200, or whatever lenses you plan on using with the D700/D3S successor, then I guess I can understand the frustration of waiting. If you would switch over ALL your gear, just because you're tired of waiting; you're probably in a financial position to just buy the D700/D3S now and re-sell it or use it as a backup when the new ones come out. I doubt many people switch over for this reason alone.

In all honesty, not many people actually "NEED" anything more than a D7000, Some need a D700, Not as many need a D3S/X. I shot with a D90 for a long time and I won't be getting rid of my D700 any time soon. If the D800 came out tomorrow, I would still buy myself a D700 and save the $1000 over the D800.

Pictures speak louder than fancy new DSLR's

I'd bet that a pro DSLR will be released in February before the next summer Olympics if I were a betting man. But I am not a betting man, and I will hang on to my gear for sometime to come.

for most photographers, the sensor size is more than adequate. It's apples to oranges but I've seen photos in the globe and mail that have run across the double spread and they used a D3 and 14-24. Looked great but yeah, it was newsprint so ymmv obviously

how many of us are actually making large (let's say 16x20) prints that *might* need the extra pixels ?

I have done 16x20 prints shot with the D2H at 4 megapixels..... And they looked great.

same here.