With the rumors starting to heat up again, it seems that some of you have missed my statements earlier this year about what to expect from Nikon in 2011 (not my predictions, but my updates to those). Today I'll just summarize what I think is coming (pretty much all of it to be announced in August while I'm off photographing in the jungle somewhere), later this week I'll share more information:
- D400 (DX, 24mp)
- DX Lenses: new 18-200mm (!), wide angle prime
- D4 (FX, 18mp)
- FX Lenses: 80-400mm, 200mm Micro-Nikkor replacements (or close substitutes), 50mm f/1.2, maybe one or two other lenses from a list of about four that have been worked on (17mm PC-E, one of three or four different prime updates, other medium zoom, other tele zoom)
It's possible some of the lenses will be in a delayed announcement, as the quake definitely impacted Nikon's ability to produce some of them in quantity in a timely fashion. And yes, this means no D700 replacement until 2012. At least that's the way I'm hearing the back room scuttlebutt at the moment. This all seems to correspond reasonably well to what Nikon Rumors is reporting, too. Could be we're getting information from the same sources, though.