Rumors on the Nikon D3x are heating up again. Big surprise, there’s now a huge market gap between Canon and Nikon- Nikon wins the noise/low light battle pretty easily (though doesn’t totally knock out Canon, although 24k ISO is a new world record in production SLR’s), but Nikon also loses out to Canon in pixel-density in 35mm SLR’s.

So here’s a rumor from a guy who sounds like he knows more than we do:

Subject: RE: Nikon Rumors…….
From: Paul
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:30:39 +0000
X-Message-Number: 4

Well I can shed a little light maybe

some nods and winks suggested that the D3x is on the way and sooner then we think (I’ve already starting to put spare cash away), I was told that it will not be using the Sony sensor…….. this surprised me a little until I was told to think about having a 12mp crop mode…. to get that you would need a 28mp FX sensor……… Can’t say who said what but this was the snips over a long conversation regarding whats coming. As we all know how tight Nikons NDC’s are this maybe close or more disinformation but a lot of what was said while we chatted made a lot of sense.

just a couple of things to think about

I think what’s saying about the crop mode is that it’s 12mp in DX mode. I’m not totally certain that that requires a 28mp design, but I’ve never been good at math.

I’m still betting we’ll have >20mp but make some sort of trade-off in pixel-density so that we still have decent low-light EV’s. I’d hate to be in the medium-format mode where >400iso is impossible or impractical.

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