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Biggest concern for me would be focus speed and buffer speed.Tom
It's not going to even come close to the D800 but might be close enough to D3 when you consider the size/weight advantage. Hard to see how it will improve much on D300s, given smaller size, rugged factor and cost of replacement.
But we'll soon see...looks like it's released in Japan this week, I think.
Presumably you mean in IQ terms when you say that?
I thought many people had complained about the buffer and burst rate of the D800...which is inferior to the D3?
As 'responsiveness' is the main weak point of the current X system I would hope for an improvement.
But given that the reason for using this system is its better 'portability', a camera with the IQ of the D3 but the responsiveness of (even) the D5300 might still be sufficient improvement ...for general photography.
For me, the big question is....if Nikon bring out a 'D400' in the D5300 (or even D7100) size body shell, would it be compact and lightweight enough to stop the flirtation with these super small bodies? As you have pointed out in the past, apart from the X100, these Fujis are still not pocketable.
So maybe a pocketable, interchangeable lens camera system, is an impossible 'holy grail'?
Then let the phone be the pocketable camera (or one of the excellent compact cameras) and accept that for greater flexibility and creativity(?) the camera has to be bulkier...and carried on the shoulder or in a bag.
That being the case, its a question of how big/small that body needs to be to fulfil this 'portability' role?
From this perspective, in practical terms, there isnt a lot of difference between the D5300 body and the Fuji bodies...its the Nikon lens size that adds the extra dimension.
I certainly would prefer the overall dimensions of a Fuji with their 55-200mm to the nikon equivalent. But if the focus and responsiveness are inferior to a D5300 then the Fuji experiment may be over for me.
Last edited on Wed Jan 22nd, 2014 06:09 by Eric
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