With the photography world’s attention fixated upon the long-awaited release of the Fujifilm x100s and x20, Nikon has been laying low, seemingly uninterested (or unprepared) to challenge its competitors with a new high-end point-and-shoot of its own.
What a surprise, then, when today, Nikon announced the pending release of the new Nikon Coolpix A, a compact point-and-shoot camera with a fixed 18.5mm lens with a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and a large 16-megapixel DX sensor. Interestingly, the DX sensor, used in entry-level and semi-professional Nikon DSLRs, is much bigger than the CX sensor found in the Nikon 1 mirrorless series. This begs the question: will we one day see a mirrorless DX camera from Nikon?
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