See nikonusa.com for announcement and some details of these new models. The D1X will be hands at at PMI this weekend. The usual digital camera sites have more details. Nikon seems to have addressed several of the problems with the D1. It looks like a D1X for me for my nature shooting. I can live with 3 FPS and 9 continous. Seems the image pixel improvement alone makes up for the fater speed 5fps and 21 of the OLD D1. Street price estimated at $5500.

-- mark haflich (jhaflich@erols.com), February 06, 2001

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The new Nikon D1H and D1X look great. Does anyone know if these cameras are full-frame? In order words, will a 14mm lens on a conventional 35mm SLR have the same coverage on the D1X? I couldn't find that info on Nikon's site.

-- Alex Tran (alexltran@yahoo.com), February 06, 2001.

Alex, from what I've heard the CCD is the same size as the one in the original D1 (i.e. NOT full frame).

-- Geoffrey S. Kane (grendel.nauticom@verizon.net), February 07, 2001.

Nikon's press release is at:

http://www.klt.co.jp/Nikon/Press_Release/d1xh.htm

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), February 08, 2001.

Am I reading the press release correctly? Can the D1H shoot 5 f/s for 8 seconds at 2,000 x 1,312 pixels at ISO 1600?

-- Chris Hawkins (peace@clover.net), February 08, 2001.

Looks like it...Maybe the death of analog photojournalism and sports photography is getting closer ;-)

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), February 08, 2001.