Mirrorless cameras made a boom in the globally in 2010 as it surged fivefold to 2.1 million sold units with the production of mirroless cameras by makers of high-end cameras like Sony, Samsung and Panasonic. On the other hand, Nikon and Canon the worlds top 2 makers of cameras are missing this opportunity for technology advancement.

It has been known that Nikon will be venturing down the same path when Nikon’s president revealed that the company was working on a concept camera that may or may not use a mirrorless system, much like the Micro Four Thirds favored by Olympus, or Sony’s NEX series a year ago.

The model-picture of this most-awaited additional camera to land in the array of mirrorless camera options was leaked on the internet and there have been a lot of speculations regarding its specifications. But what camera lovers would want to know is the cost of Nikon’s mirrorless camera.

According to Nikkei’s report via Reuters, Nikon’s mirrorless camera + lens combo has an estimated cost between 70, 000-100,000 yen or between 900-1,300 USD. As projected in these estimates, the suggested retail price in the US will be slightly lower than the MSRP in Japan. If this is the case then Nikon's new Mirror-less camera will be more than expensive than its competitors’ cameras, for example the Sony NEX-5N, Panasonic G3 and Olympus E-PL3 kits costs roughly US$699 while the Pentax Q and Samsung NX200 kits cost US$799 and US$899 respectively.

Although Nikon stressed the indefiniteness of these price rumors since it has not made any announcements yet, this was stressed in another article published on Nikon Corporation and stated “Nikon understands that some article appeared in the media regarding Nikon’s imaging product. Please note that Nikon has made no announcement in this regards.”

More recent rumors are now suggesting that the Nikon Mirrorless camera will be called the Nikon X810 and will feature a 10.1 megapixel sensor as well as an F type mount, that is used in some of Nikon's existing camera bodies.