Both these camera's are expected to be announced August 27th. The D90, which was already expected as successor of the Nikon D100 late 2004, will be a DX camera. It is expected to have the 12mpix Nikon D300 sensor with live view. As a bonus, this will be the first DSLR camera with Video Capture qualities. This seems to be proven by the three little holes for the microphone. The only question is if it captures in full HD or not. I expect that this feature will drain the batteries as the sensor should be on full time during the capture.

The Nikon D3x announcement will show at least 24mpix at 5 frames a second. This will possible also update the current Nikon D3 with a slightly updated D3s which increases frame rates. For the 24mpix pictures to be captured at 5 frames a second, the EXPEED processors will need a 20% speed increase to a little more then 120mpix per second. The current D3 and D300 has speeds of 108mpix/s and 97mpix/s. When the nex EXPEED processors are put in the D3s it will be able to capture upto 10 frames a second.

And, last but not least, a sexy back with the round view finder!

After the previosu D700 images were identified as fake by engadget, we get another spyshot. D700, compared to the D3, with a slightly slower frame rate and 95% frame coverage.

Various places on the internet have found a brochure with information on the new camera.

Check out Photography bay.

Althougn a Nikon D90 is expected before this summer as a successor to the Nikon D80, there aren't many rumors found. The only things popping up is the fake D90 as shown here. The rumors for the Nikon D3x is getting bigger and bigger since Nikon has released a new firmware version for the Nikon D3. This firmware is believed to be identical for the D3 and the D3x as a number of menu labels have been found which show the resolution of this new camera to be This string (and others) appears in the firmware file - 6048 x 4032; 24.4 Mpix 4544 x 3024; 13.7 Mpix 3024 x 2016; 6.1 Mpix 5056 x 4032; 20.4 Mpix 3792 x 3024; 11.5 Mpix 2528 x 2016; 5.1 Mpix 3968 x 2640; 10.5 Mpix 2976 x 1976; 5.9 Mpix 1984 x 1320; 2.6 Mpix. I guess there are a number of D3 bodies with a new sensor and identical firmware which is working on both cameras. The maximum resolution is 24.4 mpix so the camera leap frogs Canons latest 1Ds with a few extra pixels. This amount reveals that the sensor is most likely the new Sony made 24.4mpix sensor which is believed to appear in the Sony Alpha 900 later this year.

Ok, I haven't read this book but this could be something which I should put on the desk in my office!

Nikon has announced a new camera, the Coolpix P80. As a former Coolpix 5700 user, this camera looks interesting. It has a whopping 18x zoomlens with VR and a 2.7" LCD on the back. What I like is the big dial at the top which makes it easy to switch modes. ISO goes up to 6400 so I guess that at 800 you get reasonable pictures. With the 5700 I would never go below the lowest ISO, anything else would produce too much noise. What also is still present are the electronic viewfinder, which is great to see manual adjustments, and the macro ability (1cm)

Biggest feature missing is the swivel display of the 5700.

This comes at the price of one third of that of the original 5700!