Nikon D5500 is official!

Nikon D5500 adds touchscreen and flat picture profile: Digital Photography Review

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I did not see this coming!

Neither did I, nor can I see the point. Touch screen? No thanks.

My latest laptop is a touchscreen. The only reason it that you can't find a high end laptop that is not a touchscreen. I actually tried to use it as a touchscreen and it slowed me down and left the screen with fingerprints all over it.

I do not want a touchscreen on my camera.

they need to just change it to nose screen instead of touch screen....

Maybe you can turn the touchscreen into one big button....like the ISO button....that way you can still fully support the lens and camera and easily change the ISO!!! Oh i gotta email Nikon now...

If I end up getting the D7200 and it has a touch screen, there better be a way of disabling the touch feature.

Meh, no thanks

Don Kuykendall said:

My latest laptop is a touchscreen. The only reason it that you can't find a high end laptop that is not a touchscreen. I actually tried to use it as a touchscreen and it slowed me down and left the screen with fingerprints all over it.

I do not want a touchscreen on my camera.

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Try Macbook; they think touchscreens are poo-poo.

hee-hee ^^^^^^^^^ he said "poo-poo".........hhe hee!

Went over to the B H Photo website and they are taking pre-orders.
Nikon D5500 | B&H Photo Video

Surprisingly Adoroma has not updated their website yet.

Sorry I have enough problem accidently touching my phone screen. I suspect this isn't going to be any different.. This is a solution looking for a problem IMO

For existing camera users it may be the touch screen is of little interest but what about phone users buying there first DSLR they may want it.

Just had a quick look at the specs,have previous D5xxx had DOF preview and i can see the touch screen being useful for touch screen focusing if working on a tripod for say macro.

mikew said:

Just had a quick look at the specs,have previous D5xxx had DOF preview and i can see the touch screen being useful for touch screen focusing if working on a tripod for say macro.

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Do you think that'll be more accurate at 1:1 than the focus ring? I'd not mind it for focus checking. I'm using live a lot and when you shoot landscape, it's tiresome if you have to check several parts of the shot and each time either zoom in or scroll through.

But I'm sure I'd hate it out of the bottom of my heart when shooting viewfinder.

I was forgetting some people will still use the term macro for its proper meaning which most have forgotten are you as old as me

Rephrasing, if used for close up photography on a tripod touching the screen to set/move the focus point could be handy.

It will most likley be another feature you can switch off and never switch on again

mikew said:

I was forgetting some people will still use the term macro for its proper meaning which most have forgotten are you as old as me

Rephrasing, if used for close up photography on a tripod touching the screen to set/move the focus point could be handy.

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It's a bit confusing this macro thing. Normally if I'd shoot the stars or moon, in my opinion I'm doing macro and when I shoot bugs, that's me doing micro. They don't call them macroscopes either.

I wonder how this macro-micro got started.

I'd already be happy if I had a switch to normal button when zooming in on the LCD. I have set it to 200% but even then, I can only switch to center with one button but have to zoom in and out by pressing the button too often to my liking.

So...we now have butt dialing...

i wonder if we will have butt shooting now too?

J-see said:

It's a bit confusing this macro thing. Normally if I'd shoot the stars or moon, in my opinion I'm doing macro and when I shoot bugs, that's me doing micro. They don't call them macroscopes either.

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Word Origin and History for micro-
word-forming element meaning "small, microscopic; magnifying; one millionth," from Latinized comb. form of Greek mikros "small, little, petty, trivial, slight" (see mica ).






Now if you were going beyond the scope of anything from a 1:1 reproduction ratio.... 1000000:1 and going beyond what the human eye can see, then you would be shooting micro. However since the basic comprehension of what the camera is able to photograph with reproduction of size from 1:1-5:1 and so forth, you are aiming for a large sized object being able to fit image to image on the sensor. Hence the term macro is used in macro photography and not micro photography (unless you were taking pictures of blood cells and muscle tissue).

The terms in photography are what they are but normally and loosely translated micro = very small while macro = very large. Nikon keeps calling their macro lenses micro which is actually correct.