Retro Nikon Next Week?

Nikon Asia has released a series of five videos that hint at a new camera coming out on November 5.

This will either be:

A) Brilliant and lustworthy, a perfectly sized, simplified full frame camera you can operate by feel.

Or

B) A schlocky retro camera that is too small to be useful, too fragile to be functional or too expensive to be experienced by the masses.

Of course, this has me dreaming of a digital Canon New F-1, my first pro-caliber camera. But that motor that took 12 AA batteries was a beast …