D7000 replacement? due? Price
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You can find a wish list on nikon rumours that may, or may not, turn out to be close to what is eventually launched. They work on the process that if the continue to say a replacement is coming they'll eventually be right 
The truth is, sure Nikon will have a replacement for the D7000 in the pipeline but when it's going to be launched and what it's specification will be no-one outside of Nikon knows with absolute certainty.
Anything you see/read before the official announcement is speculation ... educated guesswork at best.
The truth is, sure Nikon will have a replacement for the D7000 in the pipeline but when it's going to be launched and what it's specification will be no-one outside of Nikon knows with absolute certainty.
Anything you see/read before the official announcement is speculation ... educated guesswork at best.
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I personally think D7000 need no replacement yet for at least another 2 years. The camera that need replacing before the D7000 is the D300s.
I'm not surpraise if D400 or whatever they called it will be out before the D7000 replacement.
I'm not surpraise if D400 or whatever they called it will be out before the D7000 replacement.
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I think its more than guess work and correct a lot of the time. They get tipped off by insiders, pro's who are testing them and magazine reviews etc.. who get them long before they are announced. I have a Japanese pro tog friend who was testing out a Sony 24mp full frame camera in 2007. Which i guess turned out to be the a900 which was released in 2008. Saying that there hasn't been much talk of a d7000 replacement yet. It may never be one and just release a d400 at a lower price as there will be a lower priced d600 to plug the price gap.
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Not sure about that mate there seems to have been a huge increase in rumours around a D7000 replacement in recent weeks with a lot of people saying it could happen within the next few weeks.
There has been no talk of a d400 as it looks like there will never be one.
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Not sure about that mate there seems to have been a huge increase in rumours around a D7000 replacement in recent weeks with a lot of people saying it could happen within the next few weeks.
There has been no talk of a d400 as it looks like there will never be one.
Oh right i've heard much, plenty about the d600 nothing much about a d7100 or d400, only that the d7000 says discontinued on amazon.de which could be a typo.. Either way i don't think there will both be updated just one of them.
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This is just the way with Nikon and probably others too. There is seemingly more money to be made from high turn over of 'consumer models' so anything up to D7000 typically has a shelf life of 2 years where as some of the pro models soldier on for double that or more, though sometimes with a facelift thrown in.
If you look back through the model lineage of the D7000, since 2004, we've had D70, D80, D90 and D7000, that's 4 cameras in 8 years (you might even throw the D50 in there too though I honestly don't know where that fits) And yet in the D300 range, since 2002, we've had D100, D200 and D300. 3 cameras in ten years. I've deliberately excluded the D70s and D300s as these were not significant updates but even if they were in, they don't change the picture much.
All that said, it does look like the D300 is well over due a replacement if it's going to happen at all.
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I remember reading some were that margin made by Nikon on consumer models like the D7000 was much bigger due to cheaper production costs and obviously volume sold. It probably makes financial sense for them to market it that way.
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I also dare say (at the risk of insulting many people!) that the consumer end of the business is more driven by the latest features and gimmicks than possibly the pro end. I don't imagine many pros are queuing up to try out in camera 'miniaturisation' for example but I can see that sort of thing selling a few more cameras on the high street. Could be talking horse poo of course...
I dare say your right mate the pro market is less likely to fall for any gimmicks... So a new pro camera really needs to bring an improvement to the table.
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Your right and also they're in the business of trying to sell us lenses more than bodies as the margins are larger. Customers buying d300's generally have worked there way up to the models over the years buying tidy lenses on the way. They're making no money out of you anymore. You're the customers the d600 is going to be targeting, they're going to start using there marketing magic to convince you to go FF and in the process by lots of shiny new FX lenses.
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You've hit the nail in the head pal. I wouldn't be surprised if fx glass get even more expensive, even disregarding value of currency's etc as people buying these wave of cheaper FF cameras are gonna need fx glass. Simple demand and supply, could be good for us selling used fx lenses!
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Fixed for you son.
