D90’s Killer App
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Guys, the D90’s video feature is truly big. This is the biggest thing to happen in the camera world since the shift to digital, I promise you. I expect interchangeable-lens video camcorders to be the next step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/technology/personaltech/28pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em
Incidentally, I wrote my NPS representative yesterday and proposed the obvious: why doesn’t Nikon adapt the D90’s technology into an actual camcorder which could accept the F-mount? This is a no-brainer, and it’s amazing no one has thought to do it so far.
Among other things I learned in this article – the D90 can take 5 minutes of video in HD, but 20 minutes in standard definition, which would still be way overkill for the internet. There are some drawbacks – autofocus is pretty slow because it isn’t linked to focusing the motor of the lens yet (though that is surely coming). Sound is mono-only.
Also, the D90 has a GPS-in port, but I am not sure if it could take a feed from, say, my standard Garmin GPS (which I love). Nikon supposedly has a GPS dongle of its own coming, which may mount to the flash hotsync (not a good solution in my mind, since you need flash, too, often-times). This GPS-in port is obviously for Geo-tagging images, something I do a bit of myself for my private fishing log using Google Earth. For me, it’s a pain to do that, because I have to find the exact timestamp of my image and match it to the timestamp of my GPS track. However, it has proved very useful in locating certain features (like Neal’s waterfall from my Georgia Brook Trout post) from the air, when tree canopies obscure the visual. Geotagging just makes it that much easier, though you’re then left with the need to strip that EXIF data out before posting an image on the net if you don’t want to be crowded on your water.
Personally, I am getting excited about the D400, which will probably be our next body (we currently have the D70 and D200).
Guys, the D90’s video feature is truly big. This is the biggest thing to happen in the camera world since the shift to digital, I promise you. I expect interchangeable-lens video camcorders to be the next step.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/technology/personaltech/28pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em
Incidentally, I wrote my NPS representative yesterday and proposed the obvious: why doesn’t Nikon adapt the D90’s technology into an actual camcorder which could accept the F-mount? This is a no-brainer, and it’s amazing no one has thought to do it so far.
Among other things I learned in this article – the D90 can take 5 minutes of video in HD, but 20 minutes in standard definition, which would still be way overkill for the internet. There are some drawbacks – autofocus is pretty slow because it isn’t linked to focusing the motor of the lens yet (though that is surely coming). Sound is mono-only.
Also, the D90 has a GPS-in port, but I am not sure if it could take a feed from, say, my standard Garmin GPS (which I love). Nikon supposedly has a GPS dongle of its own coming, which may mount to the flash hotsync (not a good solution in my mind, since you need flash, too, often-times). This GPS-in port is obviously for Geo-tagging images, something I do a bit of myself for my private fishing log using Google Earth. For me, it’s a pain to do that, because I have to find the exact timestamp of my image and match it to the timestamp of my GPS track. However, it has proved very useful in locating certain features (like Neal’s waterfall from my Georgia Brook Trout post) from the air, when tree canopies obscure the visual. Geotagging just makes it that much easier, though you’re then left with the need to strip that EXIF data out before posting an image on the net if you don’t want to be crowded on your water.
Personally, I am getting excited about the D400, which will probably be our next body (we currently have the D70 and D200). I am hoping against hope that D400 represents Nikon’s push to move the FX chip into the pro-sumer market, hopefully at 12 megapixels and $1500. Alternatively, they may stick with the DX chip and move up to 16MP or so, and add the GPS-in port, the dust shaker, wireless transmission to computers (already possible with Eye-Fi SD chips, which are also supported in the D90), and probably some other stuff I haven’t thought of like voice notes.
Zach
Lets add 12-20FPS in crop mode at like 4mp-6mp… that would rock… on a DX sensor in a brightly lit situation 4mp is fine res..
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