Nikon D3X 24.5 megapixel D-SLR officially announced

Posted by Al Warmington on Mon 1 Dec 2008

Serious camera, very serious price

Over the weekend, Nikon let news of its brand new D3X digital SLR slip out via its own Pro mag. Now it has officially unwrapped the uber-expensive device and released the full specs for all to see.

The D3X sports a retina-melting 24.5 megapixel sensor that surely won’t miss a single unshaven hair follicle in your studio shoot. It offers 5 fps continuous shooting, ISO 100 – 1600 (extendable to 6400) and an enhanced EXPEED image processing engine, necessary to handle the TIFF, JPEG and NEF (RAW) file formats that can be up to 138MB in size, each.

At the business end, you’ll find a 51-point Auto Focus and 40ms shutter lag. The LCD monitor is a 3” VGA affair with 920,000 dots and a 170 degree viewing angle. Then you’ve got dual CF card slots – useful for backups or extending your memory – plus HDMI output, optional wireless networking and a durable magnesium alloy chassis to keep your kit safe.

If you are wondering what all that means, then this certainly is not the camera for you. At an expected cost of around £5,300, this is definitely one for the pros. It’s expected to reaching shelves at some point later in the month.

The high specs and equally high price take it into direct competition with Canon’s equally huge-specced EOS-1Ds Mark III, although we won’t be trying to make a call on which one is better. Feel free to argue it out in the comments!

Link: Nikon (via CNET)