Comments on: Yes, it could be a typo

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:21:07 +0000

The shops and re-sellers often get information about new products before the rest of us – remember Digital Depot and the D-700? I thought it’s probably a typo, but there’s just a chance that they’ve put next month’s “NEW!” tags on this month’s price list. And it all adds to the fun, of course
- JJ

By: davidthenikonuser

davidthenikonuser — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:11:51 +0000

In the past couple of years all new lenses have been G type. The last lens to have an aperture ring was the 50mm f/1.8D in 2002. So I really don’t think Nikon is going to start putting the aperture ring back on. If people want a lens to use on the old manual cameras then they can by the old used lenses for them.

I beet in a couple more years after Nikon updates all there primes to AF-S they will no longer put in-camera focus motors in any of there DSLR’s.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:27:20 +0000

AF-D and AF-S are not mutually exclusive, you know… as the 300/4 AF-S, 17-35/2.8 AF-S and 28-70/2.8 AF-S show. I agree that it’s likely a typo, though…

By: Blog Admin

Blog Admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:12:06 +0000

SB-900 – 1 year old? You mean 1 1/2 months old – introduced on July 1st, 2008. Check!

By: M

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:58:16 +0000

Er, nope. The SB-900 was announced last July together with the D700, so it’s still quite new

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:05:44 +0000

Ya that’s a “new” sb-900 too. Thats about a year old now

By: florian

florian — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:41:37 +0000

Or it is just “new” on stock.

By: christian

christian — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:40:40 +0000

I think the two “new” are from the version before and they maybe belong to the pc-e 85 and the af-s 60, which maybe were new in the last list.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:23:14 +0000

the question is, which word is the typo?
the “new” ?? or the “AF” ??
both could be

By: Matthew Saville Photography

Matthew Saville Photography — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:07:21 +0000

Nikon would be committing suicide by releasing more AF-D primes. They have been trying to sell AF-D incompatible bodies for about 2 years now, and they have yet to release even ONE f/1.x lens with AF-S. UN-ACCEPTABLE.

Of course I'm confident that the upcoming (and they ARE coming) primes will indeed be AF-S G, and hopefully the pro versions will be ED / N etc...

=Matt=

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:41:11 +0000

It could be that it’s a an AF-S lens with an aperture ring, like the AF-S 17-35 f/2.8 lens. This would allow backwards compatibility with older cameras if they plan on completely discontinuing the non AF-S primes they currently have in production.

By: davidthenikonuser

davidthenikonuser — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:21:43 +0000

must be a typo. New lenses would be AF-S and G lenses.