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Nikon D2
Robert Dall, Photographer
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Portage la Prairie | MB | Canada | Posted: 11:17 AM on 01.04.03 |
->> Surfing member pages I came across Rod Mars and found a picture of Robert Hanashiro and Ronal Taniwaki and a Laptop. In the caption it reads there looking a images from the Nikon D2.
Is this true? or is Rod just pulling our leg. Can it be a real new Digital. Is Nikon like a Phoenix rising out of the digital ashes.
check it out for yourself:
http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=20 |
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Larry W. Smith, Photographer
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Valley Center | KS | USA | Posted: 12:05 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> So it seems Nikon has a D2? If this is coming could someone let us know something about it, and a possible delivery date? We have all been waiting to hear something from Nikon. Robert Hanashiro could you give us a little info if this is true?
Larry |
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Jason Hirschfeld, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Norfolk | VA | U.S. | Posted: 12:08 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> Read Rod Mar's page at the bottom...It was a joke!
Besides, Nikon is STILL trying to figure out just how to compare to the Canon 1-D :) |
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Robert Dall, Photographer
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Portage la Prairie | MB | Canada | Posted: 12:46 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> A little egg on my face. I should read those message a little closer!!!!
I knew it was to good to be true |
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Robert G. Stevens, Photographer
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Halifax | NS | Canada | Posted: 12:58 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> Robert:
I met somebody at the tournament that had used a Nikon prototype a few months ago. They asked him to take it to a rink and shoot hockey with it and bring it right back. He said it was very blocky, and probably just an engineering prototype, not even near a finished product.
He thought it created 48mb files. I assume he was probably seeing 16bit files opened in Photoshop. They are quite a bit bigger than 8bit files.
His one comment is the new cameras are creating such huge files, you practically need a super computer to manipulate them (at least in quantity). |
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Grover Sanschagrin, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Albany | CA | USA | Posted: 5:29 PM on 01.04.03 |
| ->> I have a friend who's sister is married to a guy who worked with some person who's third cousin was a rep for a company that did some outsourcing for a firm in Amsterdam who overheard a phone call from a person in a black hat that said that they heard (second hand) via an intercepted cell phone call that someone, somewhere, is building a new camera that will be,"really cool." |
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Kyle Coburn, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 5:41 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> GROVER, that info is TOP NOTCH!!! Thanks for sharing it. Hope you dont make the Nikon reps mad.
My step uncles ex-wifes lover's pool cleaner's dog sitter has seen the D2.
-kyle |
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Rick Rickman, Photographer
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Laguna Niguel | CA | USA | Posted: 6:06 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> My Great Aunt Bertha used the D2 and told me yesterday that it was better than anything she had ever used before. She told me that if I used it in my coffee maker it will take out all the scale and will also polish brass. She loved it!!!! I don't understand why they're keeping it such a secret.
Rick |
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Darren Carroll, Photographer
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Cedar Creek (Austin) | TX | USA | Posted: 6:35 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> Rick--
Will it clean copper, too? I have these pots that nothing seems to work on...
(Seriously, if anyone has any suggestions, let me know. Besides, a discussion on cleaning kitchenware has to be more constructive than agonizing over a new camera that doesn't exist yet...) |
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AJ Mast, Photographer
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Indianapolis | IN | USA | Posted: 7:11 PM on 01.04.03 |
| ->> Ketchup, I know it sounds crazy but it works great for shining up copper pots. |
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Robert G. Stevens, Photographer
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Halifax | NS | Canada | Posted: 7:40 PM on 01.04.03 |
->> I was being obtuse not to identify the tester. He may have actually been using the 14n, but he said it was not a 14n, but some sort of mock up. It was Nikon that gave him the camera to test. Make your own conclusions.
I was talking directly to the tester, not his wife's, sister's, hairdresser.
I am not a Nikon shooter, so I should care less. In the end, it may just have been a Kodak 14n. |
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Jeff Stanton, Photographer
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Tucson | AZ | USA | Posted: 3:12 AM on 01.05.03 |
| ->> We had a D2 delivered to our office just on Wednesday. I ran down to pick it up and the photo ed went ahead and gave it to the custodian so he could take photos of his new dog. Just my luck. Hell, I've got a dog too!!! |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Sherman Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 4:52 AM on 01.05.03 |
| ->> The more important question at the moment is what will be announced Tuesday? |
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Andrew Malana, Photographer
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Tokyo | JP | Japan | Posted: 7:40 AM on 01.05.03 |
| ->> The TRUTH is out there.... |
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John A. Pavoncello, Photographer
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York | PA | USA | Posted: 4:22 PM on 01.05.03 |
| ->> Check out the camera store advertising in a photo mag. At least one is advertising a "NEW" Nikon D2h and D2x bodies along with the D1h and x. |
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Larry W. Smith, Photographer
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Valley Center | KS | USA | Posted: 8:17 PM on 01.05.03 |
->> John, were did you see this advertisement? I am very curious since I am needing to get a new camera and would like to get the latest if possible.
Larry |
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Darren Carroll, Photographer
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Cedar Creek (Austin) | TX | USA | Posted: 10:46 PM on 01.05.03 |
->> AJ:
Oh my God, KETCHUP WORKS!!! My copper pots are cleaner and shinier than EVER BEFORE! A thousand thanks!
Yet another SportsShooter.com success story! |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 10:55 PM on 01.05.03 |
->> This place on Long Island, http://megapixel-digital-imaging-systems.com, used to have the D2h/D2x listed on their web site. I e-mailed them a while ago (I know a dozen other photogs who e-mailed them as well) and the D2 series bodies were taken off their site.
The person who e-mailed me back state they expect the D2 to be in their warehouse soon.....I don't think they are on top of the industry the way they should be. |
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