Following the original announcement of development, this is the first video segment we have from Nikon revealing the new mount for its mirrorless system. What features can you tell from this teaser video?
Of course, discerning exactly what will and will not be possible is still a difficult task. But we can tell is that there are at least 11 clearly discernible electrical contacts for transmitting information between the lens and body. Modern F-mount lenses have up to 10 contacts. However, one can't put too much weight on what this could mean, as Nikon's smaller one-inch CX-mount lenses (and bodies) have 12 contacts.
A close-up teaser of Nikon's new mirrorless camera mount, rumored to be called the Z mount.
Another difference is the four-tabbed bayonet mount as opposed to the F-mount's three-tabbed mount. This could result in anything from easier mounting to a more durable construction. Also, as we could tell already, the mount continues to look quite large compared to the rest of the body.
Finally, it has been revealed that there will be four more teasers for Nikon's mirrorless camera before it is released, as can be seen on the teaser site.
What else do you all see?
Excite!!! :-)
Ugly! but can be good :)
Which camera is good looking?
IMHO the Hasselblad X1D https://www.hasselblad.com/x1d/ and the Leica M Zagato edition http://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M-Special-Editions/... but then I have a Hasselblad H5. In the end it's a tool which has to work for your kind of working 😊
These 2 look very sleek. I liked the look of the Fuji XT-100 but it feels horrible to me.
Your last sentence hits it precisely, One wouldn't buy a screwdriver by it's looks either
The original Sony a99 was pretty good looking. It won a handful of design awards if I remember correctly.
ugly? lol you got good eyes considering its in near total darkness
All these teaser ads make me think Nikon is over playing their hand. Don’t have a good feeling about this new camera body. My bet is, (hope I am wrong) a clone of Sony gear and higher price. Maybe have 2 features Sony does not have. Nikon has been shooting itself in the foot for several years on catch up technology. Nikon has lost so much market share too. I use Nikon and love their gear. Thinking of jumping a leaking ship.
I jumped the samsung sinked ship a year ago, it's all fine when you do, could get at least 100% of lens and body investment back luckily.
If you can believe anything about the rumored prices it's gonna be similar to the A7 III.
They are not overplaying, they are trying to create a hype with a Sony like marketing campaign, they want to announce they are not dead yet.
Leaking ship? Since the D4/D800 release in 2012, what Nikon camera has not been able to shoot what you're needing? If you need speed or low light, the D4/D5 will do everything that you possibly could need, equally as good as anything from Canon. For quality, what do you need to shoot that the D800 can't? And if it can't, can the D850 do it? Sony has the A9/A7 series, do you think that switching between a D4/D5/D800/D850 to the equivalent one from Sony is going to make a significant difference in your image quality?
Found the Nikon guy!
So the D850 was catchup technology huh. cool bro. This is no doubt catching up to mirrorless. But so far Sony has had the market for themselves and Nikon and Canon have yet to bring their skills to bear. Let see where sony stands after this. After all, all the success sony found in mirrorless, they found it when they had no real competition.
They are about to get some. And they will be tested to see if they earned it, or merely won a race nobody was competing on. While they have had stupid flops like the D6xx,750s, they have also crushed the market leaders with legends like the D3/D300/D700 which started the high-iso trend everybody scrambled to follow, the D800 sent competition scrambling for high MP at the 3K mark. The D810 for sensor DR, and the D850 all but crushed the "other guys".
So when people write Nikon off, that's exactly when Nikon reminds everybody they have and will continue to disrupt. and I say this for good old canon too which like Nikon, shares flops but huge hits which also disrupted markets. I sense the sony crowd far too confident here and seriously underestimating what is about to be unleashed. This is not one camera, it is a new system of cameras and lenses. The game is on.
people flock to sony for the spec's... spec's 90% of people don't use or need (since they're just posting online) sony is an ELECTRONICS company... ever buy a nikon clock radio or headphones? no because nikon is an IMAGING company, and a jack of all trades is a master of none. "oh but the a9 shoots 20fps" ... but you'll never use it, and its not really a technical breakthrough, making a mirror flip 14-16 fps reliably is. Nikon does fall behind sony and canon in focusing, and video (if thats your thing) these are the 2 areas i feel will be made up with the new mirrorless bodies
The lens mount looks like a mount designed for a sensor larger than 35mm full frame size. Nikon may be differentiating themselves from Sony mirrorless by using a larger sensor.
I hope they do and bring out also a competitor to the Hasselblad X1D/Fuji GFX. So they could have a 35mm full frame and a "medium format" using the same lenses.
It would be a smart move....especially if they built out the new line of lenses quickly.
Wouldn't that defeat much of the purpose of mirrorless? It would mean every camera would be inherently big.
But if they could produce a small-ish (à-la X1D) MF body, that would be awesome. I think they really have a reason to with sensor prices coming down to something semi-reasonable as they have. But at the same time, that would still place it in a totally different segment than what I think they'll want to and actually will go after with 35mm.
Also, I don't think the purpose of mirrorless is a smaller/lighter body. This has more or less been disproven now, as they're all just about the same size/weight as their DSLR counterparts. The point of mirrorless (at least to me, anyway) has a bit more to do with full-frame AF points, in-frame image review and other benefits of EVFs, etc.
If there were 2 identical bodies with the only difference being 1 was mirrorless with all of the latest tech and the other was a DSLR with all of the latest tech I would probably go down the mirrorless route now. I think the benefits of AF and EVF's outweigh the benefits of DSLRs. Mirrorless tech is advancing a lot quicker than that in DSLRs.
Plus they have the option of the bodies being the same size or a lot smaller. Those of us with big hands rejoice!
what mirrorless camera is small with the big full frame lenses? This mirrorless is small myth never panned out. The cameras are more compact, but the lenses aren't and the lenses are what ads the bulk in most cases except for very few select prime lens skus.
so Nikon going medium format makes total sense: a professional hauling big lenses isn't going to look at it and refuse to use it based on size alone when all his full frame gear is not small either.
Even the cameras themselves aren't smaller/lighter really (barely, perhaps, in some cases). But regardless, I do see the other benefits. It's not all about size when there are other features to enjoy with mirrorless. But I think the next generation of mirrorless cameras will be the nail in the coffin for DSLRs. The D850 is probably the "last best" camera that'll be a DSLR...
Well one thing is for sure - with all the generated hype, Nikon's marketing department is certainly on top of it's game.
sigh... click remorse.
I remember when Nikon did some amazing teases for the FD camera...I was so hopeful but it was a flop.
Sincerely hope that this new one can get there. Despite being a Canon shooter we all gain by seeing the amazing A7 with some serious competition from Canon/Nikon.
I'm thinking medium-format. FX will be the new DX. MX anyone?
Let me expand on my thinking here.
Nikon is clearly shooting (pardon the pun) to release a mount that will work for the next X years (100 is dreaming).
Given the sensor growth the next logical step is medium-format.
They must capitalize on the tremendous amount of F-mount glass that's out there. Der!
They know that they are way behind in the mirror-less market. I think that this requires that they must somehow catapult past Sony and Fuji as opposed to just trying to meet them where they are.
The marketing hype has set the bar way high. That means that they are either naive or swinging for the fences.
The success of the D850 has shown them what people expect from next-generation cameras. Just imagine for a moment a mirror-less D850 with the best of mirror-less features.
All that said, I think that they may release a 70-85 MP medium-format that will auto-crop to FX.
Just my $0.06.
Let's hope the lenses will be newly designed, specifically for digital. Which will mean if you want to change, it will be a large financial bath if you are invested in more than a few optics (same constraints hold true for Canon).
A "new" body is really of little importance. Both Nikon and Canon have a very large staple of optics, MOST of which are old designs not optimized for digital (over film).
I would be far more excited to see an announcement bringing their glass up to date . . . a far more expensive proposition than a "new body/format".
People like Zeiss, Sigma Art, Schneider are doing well because they make a product that fits todays sensor capabilities. Making a "new" body and continuing to offer antiquated optic technology makes no sense if you are looking for optimum image quality. Makes sense if your only interest is another buck.
Anyone who wishes to understand this a little better should search on the Rodenstock site for a document (a loooooong and tedious read) explaining the reasons for "digital" lenses and "analogue" lenses (more than half the staple at Nikon and Canon). Not the most exciting reading, but you will understand lenses better . . . after all, they are what makes your photo.