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jpeyton

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I'm curious what the uncompressed video output via HDMI is like.
 
fuzzybabybunny

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Curious about the HDR and video. Same shitty clustered AF points that don't cover the entire frame.
 
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radhak

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While this is lighter than the D3, it still looks just as bulky.

And I am shocked they replaced the 2nd card slot with a slot for a sony card. Wonder how the professionals feel about that.

But, at $6000, all academic for me - per my chances of laying my hands on one, let alone own it. There's a car I need to replace for my wife, and can't spend that down-payment here :(.
 
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Pneumothorax

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radhak said:
While this is lighter than the D3, it still looks just as bulky.

And I am shocked they replaced the 2nd card slot with a slot for a sony card. Wonder how the professionals feel about that.

But, at $6000, all academic for me - per my chances of laying my hands on one, let alone own it. There's a car I need to replace for my wife, and can't spend that down-payment here :(.
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The new card is supposed to replace CF in the future. It's much much faster in transfers. It's not just Sony either like MS, they were just the first out with the announcement. I'm sure Sandisk, Kingston, and others will be dropping PR's shortly.
 
JohnnyRebel

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And I am shocked they replaced the 2nd card slot with a slot for a sony card. Wonder how the professionals feel about that.
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"XQD cards are based on the PCI Express interface, and offer significant speed advantages over standard CompactFlash. (They're also a bit smaller in terms of width and height, although they're a little thicker than a Type-I CF card.) Using XQD cards, the D4 should be able to write about a third more frames in a burst than with standard CF."

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/nikon-d4/nikon-d4A.HTM
 
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Why don't these cameras take advantage of dual cards for faster continuous shooting? Alternate between the two...
 
JohnnyRebel

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Throckmorton said:
Why don't these cameras take advantage of dual cards for faster continuous shooting? Alternate between the two...
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Backup, Overflow, and having them store RAW on one card and JPEG on the other are the only options. I haven't heard about them alternating for faster continuos shooting.

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JohnnyRebel said:
Backup, Overflow, and having them store RAW on one card and JPEG on the other are the only options. I haven't heard about them alternating for faster continuos shooting.

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The limit is the cameras internal buffer and throughput to do 11fps at 16MP! That is HUGE speed...176MP per second. The only different being able to alternate through 2 cards would be for continuous shooting.

Koing
 
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It's not as simple as just saying how many MP/s it's shooting. What's the bit depth? Are you shooting just RAW, JPEG or both? What's your JPEG image size? 176 MP/s doesn't really tell you much. It's like saying you're going 100 when talking about speed. 100KPH or MPH...maybe feet per second. When it comes to file transfer speed, it's about file size, not image size.

Because CF is slower, you couldn't do a 1:1 thing like that. It would probably be better suited to 2:1 or maybe even 3:1. At that point, I don't think I'd worry about the extra logic to do it. Either increase the buffer-card speed or increase the buffer size. I'm all for the latter as that's easy.
 
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http://www.alinpopescu.eu/blog/lansare-nikon-d4-in-romania/#

Nikon D4 with the new Nikon 85 mm f1.8 AF-S G | f/1.8 | 1/1600 | ISO 12800

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CuriousMike

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11fps? I mean, I've played video games at that rate.

Historically, what camera shoots as fast or faster?
 
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Video quality should be as good as current Canons' in ideal conditions. In less than ideal conditions, its 24mbps bitrate will start to fall apart before Canons do.

Although it's not certain at this point, I guess it relies on same old line-skipping method. That might be a deal breaker for those who care about video quality since it's confirmed that Canon's found a way of not relying on line-skipping method.
 
ChairShot

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so far.... I have no need to upgrade! Will wait for the D5. Note that I do 0 video.
 
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