The Nikon D4s is a mid-model refresh of the Nikon D4 of 2012. You can order it now and they should start shipping on 06 March 2014.
",S", models have never been anything about which to get excited, they are the Same thing (why Nikon uses an ",S",) as the previous model with a few added tweaks which you may or may not find life-changing.
If you already own a D4, you don't need a D4S. It's not that different, unless you don't care about spending money. See Is It Worth It.
The D4S is mostly the same as the Nikon D4. either of which are Nikon's fastest, tightest professional cameras ever made for sports and action photography. It leaves consumer cameras like the D800 and Canon 5D Mark III completely in the dust.
If considering the older D4. even purchased brand-new, don't! While the price difference today is $500, in a few years when you go to sell, a D4 will probably fetch much less than a used D4S, more than making up the $500 price difference today.
New in the D4s from the D4
The D4S has 30% more computer power than the D4 to allow more noise reduction faster to add a foolish setting of ISO 409,600 (up from 204,800 in the D4), and enough other small tweaks to give 11 frames per second with full autofocus and metering for each frame, up from 10 fps in the D4.
6 preset white balances, up from three. These are for when you have to set a hard manual white balance for weird light, and you can never have enough of these presets.
It now shoots up to 59.94p or 50p video at 1920x1080, up from 29.97p. Audio with video now has a Voice or Music frequency response setting.
RAW S offers a new uncompressed 12-bit mode.
New Group Area AF mode.
Now you can turn off Face Priority AF in a custom setting if you like for regular shooting.
There is now a tweak for LCD color. That's bad news, Nikons never used to need tweaking because they were correct as shipped.
Full-aperture Live View metering.
Intervelometer now goes to 9,999 shots from 999.
EN-EL18a rated for 3,020 shots, up from 2,600.
The old XQD slot problem has not been fixed, it's still an XQD and not a CF or SD slot.
New also is $500 added to the price. Is it worth it. No, but when you go to sell in a few years, I'll gamble that the resale price difference between the ancient D4 and the newer D4S will more than recoup your extra $500.
Sensor
16 MP FX (24 x 36mm) CMOS.
4,928 x 3,280 pixels (16 MP) native LARGE.
3,696 x 2,456 (9 MP) MEDIUM.
2,464 x 1,640 (4 MP) SMALL.
Also crops of 1.2x (20 x 30mm), 1.5x DX (16 x 24mm) and 5:4 professional (24 x 30mm) from the above.
Auto (2 types), incandescent, fluorescent (7 types), direct sunlight, flash, cloudy, shade, preset manual (up to 6 different settings can be saved and recalled), 2,500 K to 10,000 K in 10K intervals, all with fine-tuning!
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