Monthly Archives: May 2010

Weekly Nikon related news/links

By [NR] admin | Published: May 16, 2010

First, a word about our new affiliate sponsor: BorrowLenses.com. The space shuttle Atlantis had its final launch last Friday and I was there to witness this historic event. Since I could not get tickets to the Kennedy space center (6 miles away from the launch pad), my only option was to watch the lift-off from the closest [...]

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Nikon AF-S 85mm f/1.4 VR

By [NR] admin | Published: May 15, 2010

Update: the picture was removed aprox. 3 hours after I published this post. The picture did not contain any EXIF data. Michel Lammerse has a picture on his pbase stream that is labeled “cropmode, 85mm f/2.2 VR ON”: I cannot think of an existing Nikon lens with 85mm focal length, f/2.2 and VR. In the [...]

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Nikon D500 rumor from Russia

By [NR] admin | Published: May 15, 2010

Update: the ISO 3200 is not the maximum value but rather a comment from the photographer that ISO 3200 was very usable. Also, it was mentioned in the comments that this could be the replacement of the D300s (info sent by some native speakers – thanks). This rumor came from the World Wide Web and [...]

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Clarification

By [NR] admin | Published: May 14, 2010

Some readers misunderstood my last post on the Nikon D4000 and the Nikon D90 refresh. The rumor I wrote about a month ago (indicating that 3 new Nikon DSLRs are in the pipeline) came from a different source. The information I receive is never complete and often I only get bits and pieces of the whole [...]

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New entry level Nikon DSLR and D90 refresh expected, no word on D700 replacement

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2010

I received another tip from a reliable source that there will be an entry level camera (between D3000 and D5000) and a D90 replacement in the next few months (no dates were specified). There was no information provided about a potential D700 replacement. There is a lot of chatter on the Internet that the D700 [...]

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