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Not that I need such digital camera at the moment, just out of curiosity. Are there hints or rumours that Nikon will release DSLR FF-sensor in the near future?

Yes

There are always hints and rumours of this. If you do a search here for the words full frame you'll get the info you are looking for.

YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes ooops no dpreview.com/forums is full of this malarky if you want to ready about it but does anyone here know anything?

Glen wrote:Yes

Would it be likely Nikon will be using F-mount on its FF-sensor DSLR?

stubbsy wrote:There are always hints and rumours of this. If you do a search here for the words full frame you'll get the info you are looking for.

Oki Doki. Will do that.

Nothing in the pipeline that's known, Alex.

Lots of speculation though.

amarkin wrote:

Glen wrote:Yes

Would it be likely Nikon will be using F-mount on its FF-sensor DSLR?

Yes

Would it be the super-F mount though Glen (I'll get a no out of him!!!)

I heard that Nikon will be in a joint effort with what's left of Agfa to create Agfapan Cards for your digital with an FF sensor.

Closest I've heard is the comments from a Sony dude that their new full frame lenses were obviously not just for the Alpha. Presumably that means there's a beta in the pipeline and eventually we'll see a version 1.0 full frame Sony. I'd expect that since Nikon use Sony sensors that as soon as that sensor is available Nikon will announce a camera using it and within a couple of years of that you might see one retail.

Are Sony / KM lenses for their digi's DX sensor designed?

Look at it this way: How many upgrade steps are you away from a D2X?

With the d200 in DX format I think my DX/DG glass is safe for a while

You always bless the DX with a 300/2.8 giving you a 450mm equiv FoV but at no sacrifice of f/stop, remians f/2.8 at 450mm FoV.

Can you do that with the Canon FF sensor? I guess not

Why would they bother? How many photographers would dump their D2Xs to buy a full frame? Not many I would think. And apart from a slight gain in wide angle capability what other benefits are there? Then look at what you lose....1.5X multiplication factor is a big bonus and has made long range photography affordable. Using the center of your non DX lenses is a big bonus. 10 to 15 million pixels is more than enough for most pro shooters. I think the R&D money would be better spent on improving the current crop of cameras...not that there's much to improve.

The only bonus I could think of is if they kept the MP count the same and increased the effective area of each pixel thereby reducing the noise level....

Yi-P wrote:You always bless the DX with a 300/2.8 giving you a 450mm equiv FoV but at no sacrifice of f/stop, remians f/2.8 at 450mm FoV.

Can you do that with the Canon FF sensor? I guess not

But you cannot put a beautiful Nikkor 16mm and see the field of view that that lens offers either.

As much as I like the crop factor, I sometimes love to use a wide angle in the way nature intended.

Perhaps someone will be smart enough to design a FF sensor with a mode on the camera to switch it to DX mode, so all those wanting to utilise the functionability of DX, still can....

Surely that's possible ?!?

Just a thought...

Dave,

Canon already has that facility - it's called "Crop in PP" - and the D2X has the next version of it in it's crop mode for the sensor.

Yi-P wrote:You always bless the DX with a 300/2.8 giving you a 450mm equiv FoV but at no sacrifice of f/stop, remians f/2.8 at 450mm FoV.

Can you do that with the Canon FF sensor? I guess not

But if you manage to put the DX with a 300/2.8 on a FF camera, wouldn't it still be a 300 FoV?

adam wrote:But if you manage to put the DX with a 300/2.8 on a FF camera, wouldn't it still be a 300 FoV?

What do you mean "DX with a 300/2.8 on a FF camera"??

DX I mean is the DX digital sensor size. Not the dedicated DX lens type.

Even with a DX lens, say 18mm... you still get a ~28mm FoV, not a 18mm FoV. The lens itself only projects a smaller image circle with different (maybe easier) optical formulas.

Yi-P wrote:

adam wrote:But if you manage to put the DX with a 300/2.8 on a FF camera, wouldn't it still be a 300 FoV?

What do you mean "DX with a 300/2.8 on a FF camera"??

DX I mean is the DX digital sensor size. Not the dedicated DX lens type.

Even with a DX lens, say 18mm... you still get a ~28mm FoV, not a 18mm FoV. The lens itself only projects a smaller image circle with different (maybe easier) optical formulas.

Ah! Thanks for clarifying Yi-P I was just confused as I was only thinking of DX lens