Comments on: Lenses rumors are tough!

By: MarkDphotoguy

MarkDphotoguy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:59:49 +0000

Nikon has already released more lenses than usual this year. Keep in mind that Nikon's production capacity is less than Canon's and with all the QC issues over at Canon on their marquee primes right now (one of my customers had to go through 4 samples to get a lens that wasn't back focusing) I'm not sure that Nikon would want to announce more this year and not be able to deliver enough product at good quality.
Still though I'm thinking we'll see more lenses soon possibly even this year as it seems Nikon's announcement leading into Photokina are a tad on the light side.
I've been selling cameras for seven years and this could be the lightest Photokina ever (for Nikon users) unless Nikon makes some more announcements.
Nikon has already surprised us with the D700, nobody I know was expecting an FX D300 sized camera until PMA 2009 at the earliest.
If I were a betting man I'd say that before the end of Photokina we'll have some more lenses and maybe something really BIG.
Fingers crossed.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:51:27 +0000

if/when nikon announces a new 70-200mm equivilent/upgrade it should “hit” shelves about a month or so after. now, keep in mind that Nikon doesn’t have the production power to seriously MASS produce items like Canon does so often times the time between an item hitting shelves and actually being seen on shelves is about 6-9 months

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:05:05 +0000

But there are non-constant zoms for FX, like like the 24-120 VR. But that’s really a consumer lens, and not very well-regarded. An f/4 line usually is not only better designed, but also better built.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:59:58 +0000

New to Nikon. Wondering how long it would take for a new 70-200 to hit the streets after it’s announced. I’d like to bring it along on vacation Oct 8th. Alternatively it looks like eBay is my only option at this juncture.

By: eyrieowl

eyrieowl — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:05:48 +0000

if they were going to do a high end f4 series of zooms, i bet they could make at least some of the lenses variable aperture without significantly affecting the lens size. even 3.5 on the short end would be useful at times if it didn’t compromise the size. my 2 cents.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:41:30 +0000

“Anyway, I asked about lenses and he/she said to his/her knowledge there would be no 50mm or 80-400mm refreshes released this year.”

Wow, talk about protecting your source! Not even willing to narrow it down to a specific gender! Pretty funny considering the “source” didn’t even reveal anything.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:55:56 +0000

My local Nikon dealer told me today that Nikon is refreshing the 70-200 and put my name on the list. She said too many people have been complaining of vignetting with FX cameras. My 24-70 needs a big brother.

By: NIc

NIc — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:27:56 +0000

I cannot find a single big online store selling a new 70-200 and at the mall today I told the guy I wanted to buy one and asked him to order it for me. He punched it in on his computer and told me that he could no longer order it….??

Is something coming out soon? If so anybody know about how much it will cost initially? and will it be a lot better than the current version?

By: JohnT

JohnT — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:50:45 +0000

Along with the 70-200, the 300 F4 needs VR and the 80-400 is badly in need of AFS. Plus I really wish when updating the 80-400 that they would make it a 100-500!

By: silence

silence — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:02:41 +0000

please nikon update the short to mid tele primes. They’re too old.
Please release these lens AF-S 35/1.4 AF-S 50/1.4 AF-S 85/1.4 AF-S 105/2 and AF-S 135/2.

By: ChrisL

ChrisL — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:15:32 +0000

An adapter ring with a negative depth, that would be quite a feat. The register distance for Nikon is greater than for Canon or indeed most other SLRs.

By: Blog Admin

Blog Admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:26:57 +0000

We want to set an example that it is OK to tell us what’s going on (if you know of course) and the source will not be revealed.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:01:48 +0000

actually, that lens was released for the Nikon F5 (film) Camera. it works amazingly well on film cameras! the trick is, its not shooting through an AA filter over the film that it is shooting through on the current line-up of Digital camera’s and sensors. in this situation it is the filter there that is causing the problems and no matter what they do with the sensor size in digital camera’s there will always be differences in the conditions to shooting a digital camera from a film camera.

that being said, i do 100% agree that the 70-200VR does need to be updated! because while the conditions of shooting are not the same, they can be adapted for! not to mention the Flare issues on the lens that im sure the N Coating will GREATLY improve and some other quirks of the lens that have always caused it some minor trouble’s.

By: Steven Sow

Steven Sow — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:59:12 +0000

I know that they would never do that, I was joking as well as I’m sure that Ken was. As much as I’m envious over those lenses, I couldn’t mount any of them on my D300, just out of principle alone…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:39:16 +0000

I would be very irritated if D90 had better ISO performance and it didn’t come as a software upgrade…

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:43:35 +0000

The market for a 70-200 f/4 (FF), as well as a 24-105/120 f/4 is the growing FF frame market share they’re enjoying, which will grow as more FF bodies are introduced, likely hitting the midr-ange market with a D90-type body in a few years. People getting such a camera are not likely to get the xpensive f/2.8 line. And Nikon hasn’t released a consumer mid-zoom for FX yet, they’ve kept all those for DX line.

By: Robin Edgar

Robin Edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:26:41 +0000

That is a very good idea but I am not sure that Nikon has the manufacturing capacity to handle it. A 70-200 f/4 optimized for FX format would be great or perhaps a 100-300 f/4. Often lenses with smaller maximum aperatures have better overall optical performance than their faster counterparts. With better performance at high ISOs fast lenses are not so necessary but then again that means that f/5.6 maximum openings on zooms are more acceptable. . . Nikon may have little incentive to actually market a 100-300 f/4 zoom lens or even a 70-200 f/4.

By: Robin Edgar

Robin Edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:12:58 +0000

“Or like Ken said they should at least let us use Canon lenses….Canon guys are doing it with the 14-24.”

Nikon is no more likely to provide such an adapter than Canon is likely to provide an adapter for using Nikon lenses on its cameras. For the record, an adapter to fit Canon lenses on Nikon cameras would require some kind of optical compensation built into it since the (bayonet) flange to focal plane distance of Nikon cameras is greater than that of Canon, or indeed most other camera makers. It is precisely because of this greater flange to focal distance that Nikon lenses are able to be mounted on other makes of cameras with an adapter. Interestingly enough Konica did actually manufacture an adapter that allowed Nikon lenses to be mounted on Konica Autoreflex cameras but it is the only camera brand I know of that ever produced such an adapter.

By: Aldo

Aldo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:05:18 +0000

Give us primes Nikon! or continue making those 28mm 1.4 (under $1500 of course) plaseee! give us new glass!

By: Robin Edgar

Robin Edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:03:16 +0000

I cannot help in terms of any inside knowledge of what Nikon is doing but I do believe that they will need to introduce a new and improved version of the AF-S VR Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8G lens based on the content of Digital Photography Review's test of that lens.

http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/nikon_70-200_2p8_vr_n15/page7.asp

According to the good people at DP Review this lens was suffers from "severe flare" and "a lot" of corner softness and vignetting. It seems that it was optimized for Nikon's DX format APS-C chip DSLRs and just doesn't cut it on the full frame FX format or 35mm film for that matter. . .