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Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:35 pm**

Here is the info; http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06092 ... ms5pro.asp

Looks like a real winner. Shame i'll have to wait 6months to get one.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:03 pm**

No just get a D200 - that is the spitting image of a D200, every button in the same place, a couple of the buttons changed name left of the LCD but that's all I can see from a quick glance!

Of course it has that Fuji CCD...

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:09 pm**

And the S4 is where...

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:02 pm**

This is the camera body that the S3 should have been in two years ago! Now they haev a great camera body and last year's sensor. My guess is they will get it right... in the S7!

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:06 pm**

My guess is that the S4 is skipped for the usual reason, the Japanese pronounciation of number 4.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:08 pm**

asaroha wrote:My guess is that the S4 is skipped for the usual reason, the Japanese pronounciation of number 4.

S Shi ?

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:17 pm**

...or S Yon.

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:40 pm**

If it has the speed/buffer of the D200 and price is similar I will be getting one. It will be a dream for jpeg shooters :lol:

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:50 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:
asaroha wrote:My guess is that the S4 is skipped for the usual reason, the Japanese pronounciation of number 4.

S Shi ?

Yep, which is the same pronounciation as death (死).

Same like say....canon g1-g2-g3....g5
minolta z1,z2,z3,....z5

not sure what's the deal with the nikon f4 though, hehe

Posted: **Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:40 pm**

Simply nikon doesnt believe in that

Actually, the F4 was released loong ago, before this type of marketing naming was created.

Posted: **Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:37 am**

4 = Si (death) in Chinese mandarin, didn't know it was the same pronunciation in Japanese...

Link.

Posted: **Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:21 pm**

Yi-P wrote:Simply nikon doesnt believe in that

I'm with Nikon on this.

My wife and I just bought a house with the street number "444". So far the number has gone pretty much unremarked by our families (both ethnic Chinese) who harbour the odd superstition, but apparently aren't too fazed by this one...our ready-made answer if it ever comes up, is "Then don't read it in Chinese".

--Chuan

Posted: **Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:08 am**

Link wrote:4 = Si (death) in Chinese mandarin, didn't know it was the same pronunciation in Japanese...

Link.

It's similar pronounciation in Cantonese Chinese as well, and the Japanese well, put it bluntly, copied it. :lol:

Posted: **Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:09 pm**

Looks like we got many Asian language speakers in this forum

Posted: **Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:23 pm**

Grev wrote:
Link wrote:4 = Si (death) in Chinese mandarin, didn't know it was the same pronunciation in Japanese...

Link.

It's similar pronounciation in Cantonese Chinese as well, and the Japanese well, put it bluntly, copied it.

My wife informs me that Japanese are really offshore Chinese. :shock:

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