Comments on: AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4G ED & AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR official

By: tad_2358

tad_2358 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:52:36 +0000

I’m curious if I can use this 24mm f/1.4 for wedding on D300 body? Fast lens is a key in wedding shots, but could I use only one in curch for eg.? I know it’s expensive but the only one should be interesting try. What you think?

By: Chas

Chas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:16:22 +0000

Already made the switch to the GF1 with the 20mm pancake lens. Sold my D700. Good riddance.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:56:34 +0000

Just seen the price of the new Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 L IS II USM Lens, £2799 GBP, makes the Nikon version seem cheap at a grand less!

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:46:52 +0000

Nikon ent out an email about the two new lenses with sample shots.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:07:30 +0000

Well, Nikon had to choose between making a better lens than Canon or cheaper. If it were just the same, I’d agree. But I suspect Nikon brought the goods with this one.

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:04:21 +0000

What Statue of Liberty shot? I don’t see it anywhere…

By: Micah

Micah — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:58:51 +0000

Have you noticed the price on the 28/1.4? This is supposed to be better, and if it is, it’ll be worth it…to some.

By: Dweeb

Dweeb — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:37:16 +0000

That’s what I was thinking. The new lens with pro build and VRII etc. is only a few hundred more than the made in China half frame DX 10-24. How loud can you scream rip off?

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:38:14 +0000

I saw that, very weird – Bob Krist had a different tone when he posted here and he apologized for everything, including the fact that he started that whole thing. He basically admitted that he was doing a campaign for Nikon and I think he got some heat from the headquarter. This was the only real leak in this whole release.

See his posts here:
http://nikonrumors.com/2010/02/08/i-say-those-are-samples-from-the-new-nikkor-16-35mm-f4-vr-lens.aspx/comment-page-1#comment-51837

By: Metavanguard

Metavanguard — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:07:51 +0000

Can you please post a link to the Nikon History site where they explain about the Gold Ring? I have been searching for hours on Google and only come up with people who are guessing incorrectly! Thanks.

By: Banned

Banned — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:57:33 +0000

Bob Kris is now bitching about the gear enthusiasts on this website, look at this from his own blog:

“Now, as for that equipment, hit the jump for my thoughts on that….

It’s pretty nice, but it’s not orgasmic, transformational, or life-changing. (At least not for me…I used to think I was a gearhead, but I am truly humbled by the level of hysteria excitement the prospect of new gear brings on in some quarters!).

One guy went so far as to contact the helicopter company to ask the pilot and ops guy what I was using, another accused me of using a green screen and phoneying up the whole thing (Yup, that’s just what I did, right after I engineered the sub-prime meltdown), and in the worst insult of all, somebody else thought I was shooting through a plexiglass door or window in the chopper. Not to mention the dozens who have been studying the snapshot like CIA analysts might pore over a satellite picture of an Iranian nuke facility.

This is just a thought, but all that energy some of you have been expending trying to figure out what the new gear is, might be better spent actually making pictures!

If you put even a quarter of that gumption, imagination, and ingenuity being spent on gear-lust analysis into actual picture making, photography would enter a new golden age and the pages of Flickr would look like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel!”

Well here is my response to him:

“Bob, I don’t think it’s appropriate of you to characterize the gear-enthusiasts when you played your own part, by releasing a mystery picture that ignited the fire in the first place. For you to tell people to “go shoot” and forget about this whole new gear thing, is hypocrisy. Aren’t you the one testing the unreleased gear and bragging about it? Please… Next time, man up and just keep it a REAL secret, and maybe your rant will be more credible.”

By: WoutK89

WoutK89 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:18:13 +0000

Here the difference will be more like 600 euro between the Dx and Fx lens

By: iamlucky13

iamlucky13 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:11:43 +0000

What do you mean they’re lying? Where did they make claims about what it costs to make? Nikon isn’t required to sell lenses for cost, or else they’d never put any work into advancing technology, because they wouldn’t have any money to spare.

I’m pretty disappointed by the price tag on both these lenses (not that I personally could justify buying them for even half those prices), but they set the price they think the market will bear. It’s not a ripoff if their target audience is willing to pay it.

The fact is, this lens isn’t targeted at you or me. We get the 24mm F/2.8. The pros who really need that big aperture are much less likely to be shocked at the price.

By: Mehmet

Mehmet — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:10:32 +0000

Check out Nikon 16-35mm first report from Bob Krist

http://www.bobkrist.com/blog/fast-wide-and-handsome-ii/

By: yt

yt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:21:46 +0000

$2200 for the 24mm, more expensive than canon? Why would I stay here… come on

By: singapore photograph

singapore photograph — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:46 +0000

impressive specs….

By: C Benson

C Benson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:05:05 +0000

I will agree with you that Nikon will bring out a new cameras sometime this year or next year. But my main concern is the rumors, that will presented it self during the course of the year. There will be good rumors and bad rumors during the year or next. I’m concern about the bad rumors because people will take the rumors at face value, even though the rumors not true. I’m also concern that people will get frustrated because of these rumors. My advise to everyone who wants to present a rumor, please get your facts straight before you present your rumors to the forums. That’s all I ask.

Thank You

By: aetas

aetas — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:53:31 +0000

I guess if we were on a car rumor website the idea would make since. But this is “Nikon Rumors” a camera site. So when something comes out that we see as overpriced then we are going to mention it. Just like if a new audi came out and the audi guys said it was over priced.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:34:09 +0000

Well said. D3X bellyaching, redux.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:27:33 +0000