Nikon & Canon Join Hands to Bring A Selfie Only DSLR

Last Updated on March 26, 2016 by PixelPluck

Nikon & Canon Join Hands to Bring A Selfie Only DSLR.

In an unprecedented development, Canon and Nikon have joined hands together to bring a Selfie only DSLR. Sony, Leica and Pentax have also pledged their support for this grand project. The DSLR will primarily target the huge market of selfie lovers who buy phone & camera only to take selfies and are obsessed with megapixels. Sony will be providing the sensors while Leica will manufacture the lenses for the Selfie DSLR. It is also speculated that the camera will come with a lot of inbuilt apps like ‘Beauty Triple Plus’, ‘Retrica 24×7’ and ‘Selfie 365’. The camera settings will adjust to the face automatically and apply optimal settings like ISO, Shutter Speed and aperture.

The technical specifications will satisfy any ‘Specification Hungry Soul’. According to leaked internal reports from the R&D team of Sony, it will have a massive 39 megapixels CMOS sensor so that the photos that come out will have sufficient data to manipulate during the post processing (if required). The camera will have direct connectivity to Facebook and Instagram for those who would like to upload it straight to social media. Snapchat is also willing to contribute some filters to this grand project.

It will be water resistant upto 50m depth and will feature state of the art anti dust mechanism. The camera will not have any physical button except for the shutter button. There is no need to press the shutter button halfway down to focus as it will be touch sensitive. It will quickly focus, lock and capture image as soon as you touch it courtesy of the latest and greatest EXPEED5 processor found on the Nikon D5.

There will be one lens available as of now in the kit. It is developed by the legendary German company Leica and is an ultra wide-angle lens. At 6mm focal length, it will be the widest lens available in market for consumer use. There is another version coming out sometime later this year which will combine telephoto-macro option with the ultra-wide angle one. This will enable the camera user to zoom in on their face and highlight the colors of their eyes and teeth if required. A true macro experience indeed. The camera will be available in Ferrari Red, Hot Pink, Rose Gold and Royal Blue color. You will have to pay additional $49 for the Black model.

Reportedly Apple and Samsung are furious over these developments and are planning to launch their own models and launch it soon. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nikon&Canon are planning to eat their market share by launching this Selfiematic DSLR. However both Nikon CEO Makoto Kimura and Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai denied it in one voice and said its just competitive evolution. Samsung CEO refused to comment on the developments.

The recent developments may also start a patent war among the industry giants.

The price will be announced soon but you can leave a ‘guess’ in comments below. The camera is set to launch on the first of April. Also do share this post with your friends and family so that they would be able to pre-order as soon as it becomes available.

Here are some of the technical specification :

SELFIEMATIC by Nikon Weds Canon
Type	Single-lens triple reflex digital camera
Lens mount	Leica mount (with AF coupling and AF contacts)
Effective angle of view	ULTRA-WIDE
EFFECTIVE PIXELS
Effective pixels	39 million
Image sensor
Image sensor	35.9 x 23.9 mm CMOS sensor
Total pixels	39.33 million
Dust-reduction system	Image sensor cleaning, Image Dust Off reference data, Take it to shower.
Storage
Hard-Disk	Preinstalled 128GB but can be expanded upto 1TB as technology progresses.
File format	NEF (RAW) : No RAW support. JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1:4), normal (approx. 1:8) or basic (approx. 1:16) compression; optimal quality compression available.
Picture Control system	Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Flat; selected Picture Control can be modified; storage for custom Picture Controls

Double card slots	Slot 2 can be used for friend’s Micro SD card so that he or she immediately gets a copy.
File system	Exif 3.3
Viewfinder
Viewfinder	Eye-level pentaprism which may be adjusted to Nose with single-lens reflex viewfinder
Frame coverage	FX (36×24): Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical
Magnification	To be announced.

Diopter adjustment	-9 to +9 m^-1
Focusing screen	Type C BriteView Clear Matte Mark X screen with AF area brackets (framing grid can be displayed)
Reflex mirror	Quick return
Depth-of-field preview	No needed as automatically adjusts to focus on face.
Lens aperture	Fixed at f1.2 to give ultimate Bokeh Background.
Lens
Compatible lenses	Compatible with Leica 6mm f/1.2 Ultra wide angle. (So that you can include your friends and their friends in a selfie)
Shutter
Type	Electronically-controlled
Speed	1/16000 to 1/800 s (automatically adjusts as fast as your facial expressions)
Flash sync speed	Not required.
Release
Release mode	S (single frame), CH (continuous high speed), Q (quiet shutter-release)
Approximate frame advance rate	Up to 18 fps (CL); or 24 fps with mirror up (CH); or 6 fps (quiet continuous mode)
Self-timer	2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s; 1 to 9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 s
Exposure
Metering	TTL exposure metering using RGB sensor with approx.360K (360,000) pixels
Metering method	Matches the glow and radiance of the face and adjusts accordingly. Can give some error if too much make-up is applied. Will need some calibration in that case.
Temperature Range	Chilled Expressions to Super Angry Emotions.
Exposure meter coupling	Combined CPU and AI
Mode	Only Full Auto Available.
Exposure compensation	-15 to +15 EV in increments of 1/3, 1/2 or 1 EV
Exposure lock	Luminosity locked at detected face value
ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index)	ISO 50 to 52,000, above 52,000 an external torch is required; auto ISO sensitivity control.
Active D-Lighting	Does not matter!
Focus
Autofocus	Multi-CAM 50K autofocus sensor module with TTL phase detection, fine-tuning and 253 focus points (including 199 cross-type sensors)
Detection range	-14 to 40 EV (ISO 100, 20°C/68°F)
Lens servo	Autofocus (AF) full time.
Focus point	253 focus points, of which 155 or 115 are available for selection
AF-area mode	Single-point AF, 25-, 172-, or 253-point dynamic-area AF, 3D-tracking, group-area AF, auto-area AF
Focus lock	Auto

Accessory shoe	To fix your Phone and use its flashlight.

White balance
White balance	Auto (4 types) ANGRY, NORMAL, HAPPY, SAD ; all with fine-tuning.

Live View
Live view mode	Photo live view with available silent mode, Movie live view

AF-area mode	Only supports Face-priority AF & wide-area AF

Monitor
Monitor	8-cm/3.2-in., approx. 4k-dot (XGA) TFT touch-sensitive LCD with 190° viewing angle, approx. 110% frame coverage
Playback
Playback	Full-frame and thumbnail (4, 9 or 72 images) playback with playback zoom.
Interface
USB	SuperSpeed USB (USB 4.0 Micro-B connector); connection to built-in USB port is recommended

10-pin remote terminal	Can be used to connect optional TV remote control or WR-1 Wireless Remote Controller or GPS unit.
Ethernet	RJ-45 Connector Standards: IEEE 802.3ab (1000BASE-T)/IEEE 802.3u (100BASE-TX)/IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T) Data rates: 10/100/1000 Mbps with auto detect (maximum logical data rates according to IEEE standard; actual rates may differ)

Supported languages
Supported languages	Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian,Spanish, Swedish,Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Apart from this it supports LIVE Google Translate.
Power source
Battery	Two BN-BA18a Rechargeable Li-ion Battery – Aproxx 1500 Shots.
Tripod socket
Tripod socket	1/6 in. (ISO 667) ; Only supports selfie sticks.
Dimensions / weight
Dimensions (W x H x D)	6.3 x 6.3 x 3.7 in.
Weight	Light Weight
Operating environment
Operating environment	Temperature: -40 to 80°C Can be taken to shower and swimming pool.
Accessories
Supplied accessories (may differ by country or area)	Pentax Made Box. Fujifilm made strap.