{"id":185,"date":"2008-08-27T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-08-27T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:24:31","slug":"nikon-d90-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Nikon D90 coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobatkins.com\/photography\/digital\/nikon_d90_review.html\">Bob Atkins has posted a blog<\/a> on what appears to be the new Nikon DX dSLR.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially the main features are:<\/p>\n<li>12.3 megapixels &#8211; thank goodness they didn&#8217;t go to Canon&#8217;s ridiculous 15mp!<\/li>\n<li>4.5fps<\/li>\n<li>HD quality movies &#8211; a first in dSLRs and the way of the future<\/li>\n<li>GPS geo tagging<\/li>\n<li>face recognition AF in contrast detection live preview mode &#8211; personally I think this is too premature a technology on dSLRs and thus more of a marketing gimmick than real benefit<\/li>\n<li>features derived from the D300 such as live preview, sensor cleaning, D-lighting (shadow detail enhancement), VGA HD LCD<\/li>\n<p>To my mind, this is a much more sensible upgrade path than Canon&#8217;s 50D effort, but I guess only time will tell on this.<\/p>\n<p>At last Nikon have an entry level digital SLR with features that I feel are critical &#8211; live preview for accurate manual focus when needed and a dust removal system, pity it still doesn&#8217;t have a CCD-shift image stabiliser as with Olympus models.<\/p>\n<p>I am more looking forward to how Olympus will respond (hopefully maintain 10mp, improved noise, dynamic range, add HD movies with HDMI output, VGA LCD screen, 9 or 11 pt AF and 4-5 fps in their prosumer range), and perhaps more interestingly, how Canon responds to Nikon&#8217;s D700 with their much awaited 5D replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Atkins has posted a blog on what appears to be the new Nikon DX dSLR. Essentially the main features are: 12.3 megapixels &#8211; thank goodness they didn&#8217;t go to Canon&#8217;s ridiculous 15mp! 4.5fps HD quality movies &#8211; a first in dSLRs and the way of the future GPS geo tagging face recognition AF in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[21,48,47],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-dslr","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-d90"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}