April 18, 2005
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New Camera
Nikon D2X, 12.4 mp
Nikon has today revealed the sucessor to the D1X. The new D2X Professional digital SLR has a 12.4 million pixel DX format CMOS sensor, by default the D2X can shoot at 5 fps, however it has an interesting 6.8 milion pixel option which reduces the sensing area (to a FOV crop of 2x) but increases the frame rate to 8 fps. Hence the D2X can be seen as two cameras in one, a 12.4 million pixel high resolution shooter and a 6.8 million pixel high frame rate shooter. Obviously the use of CMOS is new to Nikon but also new on this camera is a four channel read-out from the sensor and the ability to perform WB correction to the analogue data before it is digitized. Also new is the WT-2 wireless transmitter with 802.11 b/g support and wireless Capture Control (Nikon Capture 4.2).
Phil: Although the cropped 6.8 megapixel mode sounds odd it's actually very easy to use as the area is indicated by a box on the focus screen (view through the viewfinder). It's just like a "sports finder" in that mode and of course means that your 300 mm lens produces the 
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