I’m starting to see fakes of the “D800“. I’m betting that the likelihood of these being real is just about nil- I can’t possibly imagine Nikon putting out another bother so soon about the D700, so I’m going to keep an eye on it and see where it goes. I also don’t want to report on every single damned wing-nut who goes and spends 20 minutes in Photoshop! Leave that to the other guy.

And over at Luminous Landscape and other places, we’re seeing a shot of a possible new Coolpix P6000 that actually looks like a smaller rip-off of the Canon G series. I’ve got a G3 and it is/was a really cool camera (for 2004).

Ordinarily, I don’t report on Coolpixs because Nikon comes out with Coolpix’s so frequently and they’re so uninspired that it’d be like reporting that I got up in the morning, but this one’s got (supposedly):

• 13.5 MP sensor

• 28-112mm 4X zoom
• VR optical image stabilization
• Raw Mode
• ISO to 6400
• optical viewfinder
• GPS (?)
• Can use the SB-800 (SB-900 too? No reports of CLS though.)
• LAN something or other? (I’m guessing it’s a wifi connection with an up-sell to a hosting service like we’ve seen on the other Coolpix’s)

13.5mp @ 6400iso huh? Remember that paper where the researchers grabbed a couple webcams, taped them over so they couldn’t see anything and then used the images as cheap sources of truly random (though not nec. uniformly distributed) numbers? Yeah, a 13.5mp coolpix would make a really good source of random noise! August release, guess we’ll know soon enough.

But raw mode’s cool! If only Nikon provided a free SDK so that I could make my own intervalometer code, and other fun stuff, then it’d be just about as good as a Canon G-series…

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