Nikon D3S brief hands-on - from Dpreview.com

Dpreview has put up an hands-on review of the Nikon D3s found here.

Here's an excerpt:

The launch of the Nikon D3 in August 2007 had a significant impact on the market for the kind of speed-optimized professional DSLRs favored by sports photographers and photo-journalists. While the segment had previously been dominated by Canon's 1D series, with the D3 quite a large number of black Nikon lenses made their way into the sea of Canon white that used to be the predominant color at big sports events such as the Soccer World Cup or Olympic Games. With many of the big picture agencies switching at least a proportion of their equipment to Nikon the D3 was the most successful pro camera that the Japanese manufacturer had brought to market in a long time.

Now, more than two years later, technology has inevitably moved on and it's time for an update, which comes in the shape of the Nikon D3S. By adding an 'S' to the D3 rather than calling the camera something completely new (such as 'D4') Nikon indicates that the camera is not so much a quantum leap, rather a refinement of a tried and tested model. Consequently many of the changes are of a subtle nature (we are detailing those in the table at the bottom of this page) but there are also a couple of more headline-grabbing improvements including a 720p / 24fps HD video mode and a new Hi3 extended sensitivity setting that allows stills and movie capture at a whopping ISO 102,400.

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It's about time that there's an update from Nikon with the Nikon D3s. They need to keep up with Canon's releases.