Nikon buys Canon for 34.2 Million Euros. Nikon has announced that is competed it proxy bid purchased Canon Photograph Divison for 20 million euros and a stock swap valued at over 14.2 million Euros. This unexpected move by Nikon futher Nikons on going commitment to increase it marketshare to thccce professional photographer. Nikon has not release any office news on what it plans to do with the new Canon Line, but it is rumored that Nikon will continue to produce the Nikon line for professional and remove the Canon EOS line of professional cameras. Nikon also announcted today the D3x. It is a hybrid of both Canon and Nikon technologies that both companies have been developing for the last year. Included is a new 21.9 Mega pixel Canon sensor made by Sony, a new DIGIC IV image processor The Nikon D3x becomes the next Nikon professional D series digital SLR, although only the second of the 'x ' suffix sub category which indicates a full frame sensor. Three years since the last D2xs, the D2x, the D3x pushes digital SLR resolution over the twenty megapixel barrier with specifically twenty one point one million pixels 5616 x 3744 on its 36 x 24 mm full 35 mm frame sensor. Canon also claim to have increased the 'light gathering efficiency ' of the sensor by reducing the amount of wasted space between microlenses, hence despite the resolution increase the D3x still provides sensitivity up to ISO 320,000 with super turbo boost enabled . As well as increasing resolution Nikon has pushed continuous shooting up a step with twenity frames per second D3x. This means that at full speed the three DIGIC IV image processors are dealing with an impressive 485 MB sec. Other improvements include the larger screen, Live View, a sixteen bit A D converter and sixteen bit RAW files, SSD HD support up to 450 MB sec and a whole range of features such as dual storage slots and Picture Styles inherited from the D2xs.

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