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Message: <blockquote data-quote="opticoholic" data-source="post: 3083077" data-attributes="member: 18608">Yet more on the subject from Thom Hogan:<a href="http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/watch-for-closing-windows.html" target="_blank">http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/watch-for-closing-windows.html</a>The upshot, within the next 5 months he thinks a "window may be closing" on the possibility of a D300s successor, due to the likely appearance of some sort of DX mirrorless body that would make any new expensive traditional DX body seem too "old school."  Interestingly, he thinks within 1 more generation the D3XXX/D5XXX bodies with mirrors will stop and the new consumer DX bodies will be mirrorless.  Although he speculates on the D3300 replacement, the D7100 is due for a replacement even sooner, but he says nothing about that.  I hope Nikon's only answer to the 7D2 is not a mirrorless body with inferior continuous autofocus...  We'll just have to wait and see.Dave</blockquote>