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http://www.dpreview.com/news/0503/05033105nikond50real.aspอุ อุ .... Canon ออก 350D มาไม่นาน .... Nikon จะออก D50 กะ D70s มามั่งแล้วครับ ....
Nikon confirms D50 and D70s are real Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:00 GMT
News of Nikon's next digital SLRs leaked after Nikon Asia and Nikon Germany 'accidentally' dropped the user manuals onto their websites. This quickly spread and appeared on our forums within minutes. Nikon asked us to remove the primary leak thread (we don't normally do this but agreed to in this case, although it was pointless). After this we were a little surprised to then read an article on Macworld that Mr 'Susumu Enomoto', a spokesman for Nikon Corp, has now confirmed that the D50 is real, a further story on Rob Galbraith's site adds credence to the D70s.
Quote from Macworld story
"Nikon would not reveal any of the D50's specifications and features. But the D50 is one of several new digital SLR models that the company is planning to release following the success of the popular D70 model that went on sale in March 2004, Enomoto said."
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/31/nikon/index.phpMarch 31, 2005 7:40 am ET
MacCentral
Nikon to release new range of digital SLR camerasBy Paul Kallender, IDG News Service
Nikon Corp. is planning to release a new range of digital SLR (single lens reflex) cameras, including a model called the D50, the company said Thursday.
Word of the D50's impending launch first emerged when it was discovered that a copy of the user's manual for the camera had recently been uploaded in error onto one of the company's Web sites. The manual was soon taken down.
"The user manual was uploaded in error and we can't tell you when the official announcement about the D50 will be made," said Susumu Enomoto, a spokesman for Nikon. However, he noted that the existence of a user manual for the D50 suggests the camera will go on sale in the not-too-distant future.
Nikon would not reveal any of the D50's specifications and features. But the D50 is one of several new digital SLR models that the company is planning to release following the success of the popular D70 model that went on sale in March 2004, Enomoto said.
"We are now developing a full range of new models from the top-end to popularly-priced models, but we can't say anything more now," he said.
Aimed at hobbyists and amateur photographers, digital SLRs are digital versions of 35-millimeter SLR film cameras and come with interchangeable lenses and camera bodies. They have advanced features found on professional-level film cameras and usually sell at a premium to point-and-click digital still cameras, although price differentials are narrowing, according to market research company IDC.
Nikon claims to have sold about 1 million D70s globally between March 2003 and this February, and this figure accounts for about 40 percent of the worldwide digital SLR market during that period, the company said.
Last year, global shipments of digital SLRs surpassed 2 million units, according to IDC. Global unit shipments of digital SLRs will grow to about 3.6 million units in 2005 and shipment numbers will double to about 6.6 million units in 2008, according to IDC predictions.
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-6465-7712Nikon confirms D50 coming soon; D70s may also be on the way Thursday, March 31, 2005 | by Eamon Hickey
Macworld.com has published a story today in which a spokesman for Nikon Corp. in Japan confirms that a new Nikon digital SLR called the D50 will be released soon.
In another case of a company posting confidential information to the Internet in what it says was an error, Nikon uploaded the user manual for the D50 to one of its web sites, where it was quickly discovered. The company has confirmed that the manual was genuine and the camera is nearing release, but no exact shipping date or pricing is given.
As of this writing, a website called InfoDigitalCamera.com has posted on their server what appears to be a genuine PDF copy of the manual. The manual describes an entry-level digital SLR. Note that since the site doesn't own the copyright to the manual they've posted, it's likely that it won't be on their server for long.
Nikon has not confirmed the existence of another new digital SLR called the D70s, but a PDF copy of a user manual for this camera is also apparently loose on the Internet. It, too, appears genuine. It was, for a time, available on a fan web site for the Asian pop singer Buachompoo Ford, but it has now been removed or the file has been renamed.
Revision History
March 31, 2005: The story has been updated to note the apparent removal of the D70s user manual from the Buachompoo Ford web site.
