[font color=\'#000000\']If you want a DSLR in the traditional 24x36mm format that uses Nikon lenses, lens mounts, AF mechanisms, light metering and other components, Kodak will sell you one.
On the other hand, Nikon has repeatedly and emphatically stated that their DSLRs wil stay at the DX format, and the commitment is both verbal and financial, due to their investment in all the new lenses intended for DX format.
So either
a) Nikon is persistently lying, and is wasting vast resources developing DX lenses and such, and is planning to burn a huge amount of goodwill by stranding its customers with lenses that will be of little use on their future professional DSLR models,
or
No such camera is coming from Nikon anytime soon, if ever.
Of course there is one more, long term possibility:
c) Nikon still honestly but wrongly believes that they can make do with DX format, showing that they understand photographic equipment and the photographic market less well than numerous chat-room participants who know that the future is 24x36, and Nikon will have to either abandon that strategy in favor of a larger DSLR format at some stage, or surrender the professional DSLR market to Canon, Kodak, et al.
I go for (, with Nikon reasoning that the 24x36 market is small and specialized enough to be handled through the current Kodak models.
Options (a) and © seem like ill-informed wishful thinking. The fact that Olympus and Pentax are acting similarly makes it seem even less likely that all three of those companies are run by liars and/or incompetents.[/font]
