Yeah, not confirmed but let's say "official leaks".
Apparently they were experimenting the new website on nikonusa.com.
This is a D3 image edited as it was pointed out in [NR], maybe the new D3x comes on exactly the same body.
I would not put money into a D400 or D800 this year... maybe not even on the first half of 2009.
A good question though: don't you think (like I do) that in a near future (2-4 years) the lines of the D300 and D700 will merge into one 24Mp+ FX body? It is not practical to go past 16Mp on a DX sensor, you end up loosing picture quality due to the size of the pixels... this are the numbers I figured out:
Nikon D300 DX Sensor is a good example of the best picture quality on an APS-C sized sensor, the Canon 50D went past it but actually lost some pic quality...
Size: 23.6 x 15.8 mm
Area: 3.7288 cm2
Picture: 4288 x 2848 pixels
Resolution: 12.211224 Mpixels
Pixels/cm2: 3.275 Mp/cm2
For an FX Sensor to give the same 12Mp on a DX Crop it needs 28.2Mp
For an FX Sensor to give 10Mp on a DX Crop: 23.2Mp
The Megapixel Race should end at about the 12-16Mp count on DX Sensors and should go up to 24-28Mp on an FX Sensor, I think that by then we will see some other kinds of advancement like higher sppeds, better videos, better high/very low ISO quality, HDR images out of the camera, black silicon chips...
