Nikon D50 and D70s - Now Official !

[JerseyJay]

Nikon to release new range of digital SLR cameras
By 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.......
read more here --> http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/31/nikon/index.php

and

Nikon 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.....
read more here --> http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-6465-7712

[benny]

Er Jay,

The D70s was a plural form of for the D70.

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.

Nikon has not confirmed the D70s.

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.

But it will be exciting to see what's coming... Hopefully we don't have to wait too long.

Cheers,

[JerseyJay]

The D70s was a plural form of for the D70.
Ooops. D70s is indeed not official yet but you are more then welcome to look at the manual of D70s. I have it saved locally on my computer. It was intercepted the same way as D50.

[hir0]

i'll believe the d70s is out there when i see one! thanks for the update jay.

[hir0]

here's (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=fbd5bg.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=nikon+corporation&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24ALL&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query) a good place to look for new nikon things. the d70s isn't listed, but neither is the d2hs so i'm guessing there's no legal requirement to get a trademark for the "s" :)

[JerseyJay]

If there is a manual for D50 (*which was announced) and D70s, then why wouldn't there be one ?

[hir0]

i'm not saying there isn't. just not officially.

[hir0]

Jay, i'd really like to see what kind of differences the manual shows for the D70s. you have it linked somewhere? or could you e-mail it to me?