Monthly Archives: March 2009

Nikon AF-S 35mm f/1.4 (FX)

By [NR] admin | Published: March 7, 2009

Update: this rumor is busted – the third lens was the manual 35mm f/1.4 AIS lens. What some readers still don’t get is that this site is based on a comunity effort – many times I have questions and ask for help – I do not know everything. I received this email today: “Today I [...]

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Nikon D60 Second Edition

By [NR] admin | Published: March 7, 2009

B&H has a new D60 model on their web site: Nikon D60 SE CAMERA w/18-55 VR LENS (BLK/GOLD). SE like in Second Edition? Is this the “pimp” D60 Black Gold Edition that was released by Ritz few months ago? If that’s the case, why they don’t have it in stock yet? Note also that the model number NID60SEK [...]

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Nikon related news/links

By [NR] admin | Published: March 7, 2009

Weekend reading: Nikon captured the #1 share position in compact digital cameras unit sales in December 2008 (source). In the same article (quote from Nikon’s UK general manager Simon Coleman in an interview at PMA): ”Nikon plans to launch new DSLRs later this year”, so we are expecting more than one DSLR despite the economic situation. Nikon UK camera [...]

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AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED comes back in Europe

By [NR] admin | Published: March 5, 2009

From a reader in Europe (working in a photo store): “Yesterday we received an email from Nikon headquarters that the AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED will be available again at least here in Europe starting at the end of March.” The rumor was that this lens was discontinued and was not present on many of the latest price lists. Not sure [...]

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Please update your NikonRumors RSS feeds

By [NR] admin | Published: March 4, 2009

Feedburned (the RSS feeds handler) was purchased by Google and I had to switch the RSS feeds to their new home @ Google. Please update our RSS feeds to point to: NR posts (full text): http://feeds2.feedburner.com/NikonRumors NR comments: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/NikonRumorsComments Email subscription: enter your email address If you want to know more about RSS feeds and how they work [...]

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