Comments on: More rumors from China (Nikon D700x and Nikkor AF-S 18-50 f/3.6-4.5)

By: donde?

donde? — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:56:41 +0000

“AF-S 35 f/1.8 FX”

I guess that’s how most rumors start…

By: What?

What? — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:35:17 +0000

What?
50-70 is about the least significant place to have a hole in coverage.

By: Pat Mann

Pat Mann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:43:10 +0000

It’s not a great leap from the 18-35 current prosumer lens to 18-50.

Nikon has done 24-50 and 25-50 zooms in the past.

It would be a great leap from 17-35 f/2.8 – to 18-50 f/2.8. Nikon already has the pros well covered with three outstanding lenses. It’s clearly significantly harder to build fast wides in this range, and the reduced aperture foreseen for the 18-50 probably means a slight relaxation of other specs compared to the pro zooms such as vignetting and distortion is also likely in bringing this to the prosumer range.

Nikon has shown an amazing optical quality in the past 10 years not just in pro lenses but in its midpriced lenses in the DX range. It’s no joke to me – I’d love to see this lens. I might even get a full-frame digital camera just to use it.

By: Pat Mann

Pat Mann — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:12:01 +0000

I proposed a 50-200 f/3.5-4.5 (4.0 preferred) because it’s faster than the 70-300 throughout the range, more compact than the 70-300, and gives continuous focal length coverage with an 18-50. The 50-70 mm focal length gap is a significant one.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:23:19 +0000

bah that 18-50 must be a joke.. and why using such weak apterture ? constant 2.8 would be best..

By: fugue137

fugue137 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:55:45 +0000

Awwww… I was hoping for an 18-53 DX to complement my 18-55 DX. 18-50 is too short. Why would they release that?

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:00:37 +0000

1420 mp sensor, you forgot the comma there At least no one will say we need more pixels after that beast has been released

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:57:16 +0000

It is all speculation, thats why

By: 18-50 perfect for FX

18-50 perfect for FX — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:01:27 +0000

Such a lens would be perfect for the landscape shooter. 18mm on FX is wide enough for 90% of landscape vistas. (The 14-24 can fill in for the remaining 10%) A ultra-wide to normal is pretty much a stay on camera lens for the wide-angle minded. My 24-70 can pretty much retire then!

18-50 FX + 80-400 FX would be a perfect two lens solution!

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:57:07 +0000

No he isn’t, but lives there I think and has good connections with at least one Nikon’s parts maker. His predictions are almost always on the spot and he was the first at DPr to say the D3s was coming and then that the D3x’s sensor wouldn’t be used in a smaller FF body. Now he says he knows what’s coming and essentially has confirmed that, w/o details. I’m sticking to his predictions. Thom Hogan also, in the same thread, said that’s not what he knows about the coming releases.

ML has said in another post that the new FF body will be better spec’d and higher priced than people think. Maybe a digital F6, 100% VF etc:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=34340026

By: rhlpetrus

rhlpetrus — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:50:41 +0000

More from Michel, it seems some of the lenses could be correct.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=34340537

By: nobody

nobody — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:21:26 +0000

The rumour says there is HD video in the 14mp FX D95, priced around US$ 1800. So Nikon would attack the 5DII with two cameras, one having higher resolution, and one being cheaper with HD video.

I share your opinion, however, that a 20mp Nikon sensor in a D700 body, along with an f4 standard zoom would have been a better solution.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:21:18 +0000

BTW, since when is a 18-50mm FX zoom a “standard” lens? To me, it would be more like an ultra-wide to normal lens, but not at all a standard zoom.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:10:23 +0000

Thanks to everyone that sent images/translations – I just published a new update.

By: Vladi

Vladi — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:56:00 +0000

…”D700X will be using the same cropped sensor as D3X”…???
dont think this is correct statement.

By: Litebyte

Litebyte — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:53:09 +0000

Lammerse also mentioned on DPreview it is fake but that they are right about 2 things, is he Japanese?
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=34340537

By: Twoomy

Twoomy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:39:56 +0000

and what would you consider to be a “credible” brochure? this seems very similar to the D700 leak. And looking at that full image, it looks like it would have taken quite a bit of effort to make a “fake” and for what purpose? so us Nikon geeks get confused about the model number?

By: gingerjimmy

gingerjimmy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:39:27 +0000

my 18-35 3.5-4.5 (FX) weighs just 395g

By: ozawa

ozawa — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:36:30 +0000

i am a native japanese speaker and I know what’s written on the page. Every rumor is taken from just one of these predictions by three distinguished professional photographers you see on the lower left side of the page in the link Mr. Fool provided. On the upper right side, it reads “New Full frame camera will be the axis of Nikon’s new model in 2010″. They predict that D700X will be using the same cropped sensor as D3X and the price will be about 350k yen ($4000 US). They also predict that 14.2 mega pixel APS-C sensor ( the same one currently used on Sony A550) will be the new standard for Nikon’s APS-C camera, and the replacement of D90 (which they call D95) will adapt that sensor. According to them, it will have Full HD video. The least credible of all is listed lenses on the right page. The source simply states “we want attractive lenses to fully experience new high-megapixel full frame camera”. So lens part is more like a hope than a prediction.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:20:06 +0000

thanks, I will post it online