Comments on: More Nikon AIS lenses discontinued at B&H

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:31:16 +0000

You got the whole idea of this blog, some others will never get it…

By: STJ

STJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:38:08 +0000

Ha ha ha!
Admin – yo umake ma laugh
And by the way – don’t let any emails get you in a “down mood” – rumors are rumors – just post all the stuff you want, readers must then filter for themselves. We all want you to get the exact date and specifications for the next lenses and cameras but you do as best as you can. Those that cannot do the filtering are lost on the web anyways.

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:26:23 +0000

good!

By: DrB

DrB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:00:53 +0000

I dont care either, but not because of zooms. Instead, I dont care because you’d be mad these days to buy an ais lens new, when ebay is swimming with mint 2nd hand bargains.

Aside from the 14-24, 24-70 and 17-35, the old ais primes still hold their own (and in some cases clearly outperform) against anything Nikon has to offer (as long as one can be bothered to raise ones hand to the focusing ring). It would be a shame if Nikon didn’t replace at least some of them.

By: DrB

DrB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Yeah, they do make the eyes water. I dont expect that any FX primes released by Nikon now will be substantially cheaper though.

By: M

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:02:44 +0000

Taxes are going up, the markets are falling. The rest is baseless speculation.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:51:19 +0000

I have some really good rumors and I was not going to post them, but now after you asked for it.. I will be all over them …

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:35:59 +0000

Agreed!

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:34:53 +0000

So…how about some REAL RUMORS instead of the usual circle jerk?

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:33:38 +0000

“being outperformed by the zooms”

you don’t shoot much do ya kid?

By: M

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:36:45 +0000

Amen to all those points. I recently bought (new) the 50/1.2 from Vistek in Canada for US$550. Agree with its sharpness @ f/2. Also love the jewel-like precision of the AI-s lenses, as opposed to the new, Chinese made plastic normal AF-S ‘normal’ lenses (35/1.8 & 50/1.4). I got tired of waiting for the mythical 85/1.4 AFS and popped for a new AFD. Have had issues with it right off the bat. QC hasn’t been what it used to be; my brand new 24-70, barely used, went back for replacement of the AF mechanism. My 14-24 is heading back next.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:09:51 +0000

It’s about time….
Nothing extraordinary about this news !

By: grumps

grumps — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:25:27 +0000

Not exactly, at least Apple has good predictable releases every year and not every decade (lenses)! :p

By: rad

rad — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:28:29 +0000

I thought that title was already taken by Apple?

By: Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:59:29 +0000

Maybe Nikon should announce what lenses are discontinued. What a revolutionary idea, but we are talking about “Ninja Nikon,” the “Cloak and Dagger” Corporation.

By: PHB

PHB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:02:22 +0000

Nah, no new manual lenses.

But with the current range of AF primes not working on the D40 bodies and being outperformed by the zooms, sometimes for less money, it is clear Nikon needs to sort out its prime range.

I suspect that we will see all the AF primes superceded by fast, more expensive AFS versions. These will probably be quite expensive and not quite replace the AF versions that will hang around for while.

Nikon would probably prefer not to have two sets of obsolete primes to confuse matters.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:42:27 +0000

Does anyone really care? All these lenses were well past their use-by date. Modern AF-S zooms are the money-makers for Nikon now because they’re what most users want.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:41:27 +0000

Ya if you can afford the ZF! super expensive

By: DrB

DrB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:15 +0000

Ah well never mind. Who needs ais when there is zf… ?

By: William

William — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:35:51 +0000

Maybe the updated versions will be released alongside the D300s