I wonder why they didn't use Bluechip? Much lower battery life than WiFi and better security (built-in encryption). Wi-Fi can suck down your rechargeable camera battery in no time. If your machine doesn't have one, you can add a Bluechip USB adapter to it for under $30.

Plus, once they figure it all out, we should be able to zap the picture right from the camera out through the Bluechip cell phone to email or ftp out to the net. No wires needed. That's what *I'm* waiting for (:-)

Also could someone explain why exactly USB 2.0 sucks? It runs at 480 mbps vs. Firewire at 400 mbps (yeah I know 1394b will run at 800 mbps but that's still far out). My external DVD writer has both Firewire and USB 2.0. I get about 25% faster write time with USB 2.0. Just wondering.

Anyway, pretty cool camera specs. Me, I'll wait for Bluetooth.

fubar: Cause Bluechip "ain't where it's at" - wifi does guzzle batteries though.

USB 2.0 seems to suck because it doesn't mix well with its USB 1.0 little brother, who drags the whole bus down to the lowest common denominator. And that 480mbps is really just theoretical, can't do long sustained writes and puts more load on the CPU. No idea what the issue is for your DVD drive, though the Firewire bridge/interface may not be optimal for that device.

And "fuckin" Xeni seems really impressed by Mpixels, but when it comes right down to it 4 or even 3 megapixels is tons of data for most uses, (the glass in front of that sensor being more important) and pros will wait for something faster than 802.11a/b for writing monster uncompressed captures to their laptops.

Nikon has really been dissapointing in the professional space announcing cameras but not shipping until much later and often well behind on the feature set from the likes of Canon. If they don't watch out they're gonna get lapped...

Classic! Trolls so lazy, they don't even bother to read the fact that this text was a quote, lifted in entirety from Jason DeFillippo's blog. OK, now *that* I'm impressed by.

Nikon's main thrust these days is photojournalism, they really need these feature set of the D2. they need a large buffer and fast saves as well as the wifi is just awsome in a press conference, just take the paictures and the reporter has the story and images to the editor lickity split. I worked for reportertv.com for a while and at press events the reporters are editing photos and getting the copy out just fast as possible. Most events now have high speed internet for the reporters to get their stories to their outlet now! Those guys work really fast. But for most professional photography gigs the D2 feartureset is not what they need. I shoot QTVR Panoramas and I need max resolution (6 mp or above) and a wide dynamic range since a whole room or environment is one photograph. I currently use a Fuji S2Pro which provides awsome results and hope to move to a higher res camera soon.

Cheers
RC Fisher
www.rcfisher.com

Dear Xeni,

Stop mentioning you live in LA at every opportunity, valid or not.

Sincerely,

The World

Somebody's bitter Xeni turned down their creepy advances.

Dear "the world". Move. Get out. Actually see the world and not sit in front of your parent's computer all day and bag on people you've never met.

i think once the user reports come in on this wifi thing, the obscenities and vulgarities will not be warranted (slow)

wow xeni, u r as dirty as u look (aka CHRISTINA AGUILERA)

You completely miss the point. Speed doesn't matter. Camera makers are moving with the times and this marks a high point in innovation. Next we'll have 802.11g then the next standard then the next.

"The new Nikon Digital SLR has an option for Wifi! FUCKING WIFI! Only problem is that it's 4.1 megapixel. I've got a 6.1 and I'll live with the offloading but... FUCKING WIFI! Here's good overview. List price is $3500 which is steep for the resolution but everything else on the camera is STELLAR. 11 area AF sensors. Jesus. And it's got built in FTP. The fucking camera has FTP. Those boys at Nikon rock. If it had a full sized CCD and higher res it would be perfect. Utterly perfect. Oh yeah, and Firewire. USB 2 is lame."

Adolescent garbage like this should not be posted on Boing Boing unless you want to drive away your non-highschool readers. You don't have to go far to find this level of
"writing" - why pollute a cool site with such stuff?

I'm all for hearing it. What's the big difference between USB2 and Firewire? Got both on this windows box, would love to hear a difference. (All my drives are USB2 right now)

So.... the obvious question is:

   What is the default ftp username/passwd for the ftp server?

I mean, I might actually start going to sporting events again if I can netstumble these things and pull the pictures as the photographers actually shoot them. Hell, maybe I could even submit the pictures to news agencies faster than the whole print news turnaround process usually works.

Worth mentioning: It looks like the camera has standard 35mm lenz mounts. Nice. (FYI a good lenz will cost at least as much as the camera...)

Another question:

   Will we see fark-like photoshop events at sporting venues?

That would be a really cool meta-event.

Perhaps we could just watermark the images and re-upload them to camera. First person to get their image published in a watermark verifiable media wins.

What is the default ftp username/passwd for the ftp server?

Why, whatever you set it to when you put up your FTP server, obviously. Is this a trick question?

we all know know that bluetooth blows an wifi is better, but the real question is Why ftp? Why not http + zeroconf announcement of the host?

It's an FTP *CLIENT* not a server. And it uses 802.11b, not bluetooth, because the idea is that if you're shooting out in the field (or even in the studio) near a hotspot, the camera will just auto-dump all the pics to your remote FTP server, not to a laptop you're lugging around with you.