Last week a hopeful image of the so called “Nikon D700” was “leaked” and the news spread like wildfire amongst photography sites, forums and personal blogs, mine included of course. This was a picture that was posted up on Engadget on the 25th of June. It looked really real and this is something that we might have predicted or imagine that a smaller full frame sensor Nikon camera would look like (to rival Canon’s 5D of course).
That was posted on the 25th of June. It took only 2 whole days before the real news was unearthed. Yup, suspicions were true, it was just a photoshopped D300. I guess this is one of the banes of Photoshop! Grrrr.
The real image was actually up on Flickr over here. Here is the image of the original shot which was actually a Nikon D300 all the while. And no, it wasn’t my D300 that I shot!
Like the title says in the Flickr image, “Awwww….no D700 after all“.
I had my hopes up really high, only a couple of hours more before I can call this so called rumour that Nikon will make an announcement on the 30th of June a true blown rumour. Anyway I am sure a lot of people are still expecting an announcement from Nikon soon, whether it may be the D700 or the D90 or the D3x, who knows what Nikon has in store but for sure we would find out something by September.
My fingers are still crossed though. 😛
the greatest marketing strategy is to create speculations to make consumers more curious about the upcoming product. especially to those indecisive photographers who still cant decided which model to buy, and thats where the awareness is created and opportunity comes in for the brand.
At this moment I guess that I shall be kept in suspense until it is officially launched. If they do announce it at Photokina 2008, stocks should be in Malaysia by Dec 08/Jan 09 period. Hopefully the price isn't too high.