After pondering about the feature mix that Nikon decided on the D7500, I have made two conclusions. First, the dropping the AI-indexing tab, battery grip and and the second card slot seems to mean that there will be a successor to the D500. There needs to be one DX body fitted with all the features the public sees as "pro".
And since the D7500 is getting closer to the D5600 with the removal of the above features, and with the added tilt screen, I severely doubt whether the D5600 will have a successor. Sure, Nikon could name the next in line D3000-series camera D5700 no problem, but its feature set will be that of the D3000-series. They did the same thing with D600-series when they decided to name the D620 into D750 instead.
So the Nikon camera lineup is now D5, D810, D750, D500, D7500 and D3400. Three FX and three DX. All the other models are discontinued, but unfortunately for Nikon, thousands upon thousands of them lie in warehouses unsold. I think the Df was a one-off thing which is also discontinued long ago.
Nikon manufactures cameras in batches and we can be assured they will not re-tool their assembly lines to make another run of D7100 or D7200 despite those being still in price lists. Nikon has too much of those, no need to make any more.
And since the D7500 is getting closer to the D5600 with the removal of the above features, and with the added tilt screen, I severely doubt whether the D5600 will have a successor. Sure, Nikon could name the next in line D3000-series camera D5700 no problem, but its feature set will be that of the D3000-series. They did the same thing with D600-series when they decided to name the D620 into D750 instead.
So the Nikon camera lineup is now D5, D810, D750, D500, D7500 and D3400. Three FX and three DX. All the other models are discontinued, but unfortunately for Nikon, thousands upon thousands of them lie in warehouses unsold. I think the Df was a one-off thing which is also discontinued long ago.
Nikon manufactures cameras in batches and we can be assured they will not re-tool their assembly lines to make another run of D7100 or D7200 despite those being still in price lists. Nikon has too much of those, no need to make any more.
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