Forget the big, fat gold chain around your neck: If you want to be a baller, just wear Nikon's new DSLR, the D3X, which lists for $7,999.95.The new 24.5-megapixel shooter is marketed for professions looking to capture images with low amounts of noise at resolutions up to 6048 by 4032, good for pages in magazines, billboards and so on. It's available in December. Here are some quick specs:

• 24.5 megapixels
• 6048 by 4032 full resolution
• 5 frames per second at full resolution
• Dual card slots
• Dual UDMA-compatible CompactFlash card slots
• 3-inch LCD screen with 920,000 pixels
• HDMI out
• Starts up in .12 seconds
• Shutter release time lag of .04 seconds.

Post by PJ Jacobowitz