- Another abused Nikon D90.
- Nikkor AF-D 28mm f/1.4 lens for sale on eBay for $2,900.
- Nikon D700 with a 16mm lens captures space shuttle Endeavour's last flight.
- How to "shave" a Nikon 10.5mm lens.
- Nikon D7000 wins the Camera GP2011 Readers Award.
- New G-EOS adapter for Nikon lenses
- New Korean Nikon D7000 iPhone app (free).
- New Augmented Reality simulator for the Nikon Coolpix P300 camera.
- Transparent Nikon D5100 camera.
- Q&A of financial results for the year ended March 31, 2011
- The Battle at F-Stop Ridge video (funny!):
- A reader found the original song from those "I am Nikon" videos (I wonder if the music video was shot on a Nikon):
- Japanese Nikon D7000 commercial:
- Another Nikon D7000 promo video:
- New Nikon D5100 commercial shot on the D5100:
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I love my D90!
what does the korean iphone app do? there is a funny mispelling on their promo image
Oh yeah you’re right, SatrShot/StarShot. Woops !
Seeing the 28/1.4 listed at that price makes me want to sell mine. I could take a vacation AND buy a new ZF.2 35/1.4…
Sell it. They used to be $4,000 at one point. So basically you lost out. Buy a Nikon 24/1.4G & take your vacation.
The price of the 28mm/1.4 seems to come back slowly to reasonable regions. USD 2,750 is about EUR 1,950 – for a mint copy. At the moment, the AF-S 24/1.4 is priced at about EUR 1,800 (USD 2,550) at serious non-Ebay dealers in Germany.
Somme video…a bit over the top maybe!
The “Battle of F-Stop Ridge” looks really good (although a very cloudy day, so they didn’t have to battle with dynamic light extremes), but I’d love to know whether it was shot on a Nikon or a Canon. The original file (without going through YouTube compression) probably looks even better.
You are thinking too hard. Just sit back and laugh a little.
+1. I laughed my ass off. Even my Mrs laughed and she hates photography
I actually didn’t find it very funny.
Pathetic. After spending all that money for GEAR, the most creative thing they’ll ever do with it is to appear in this video.
When will the “behind the scenes video” be posted.
Actually it’s probably all rental gear from the store and most of them, and particularly two are very accomplished creative photographers.
Another Nikon relevent thing that happened this week was Japan falling into another recession.
All the carmakers and electronics companies are waiting to see the impact of the Summer power cuts, the warmer the weather the more prolonged the power cuts…as many have pointed out certain manufacturing processes can’t happen without constant power.
“The power shortages may last quite a long time; some experts are predicting that Japan’s shortage of electricity may last two or three years and that production slowdowns will continue in many sectors such as automotive, semiconductors, electronics, special chemicals, machinery, and precision equipment.”
http://seekingalpha.com/article/271215-japan-s-recession-returns
broxibear: we need to call you “Sunshine” for all of your optimistic updates
All kidding aside, thanks for keeping us informed…
Hi One More Thought,
I know what you mean lol, but I just post the information when I get it…positive or negative it is what it is ?
I do give Peter/admin other interesting links, a few of the videos above are from me… It’s not all bad.
Yes, I do get a lot of Nikon related links form Broxibear and they are not all negative
you realize japan is on the other side of the equator, meaning there in fall and soon going to be in winter? so colder weather.
I think you need to brush up on your geography…..
Can somebody please donate a National Geographic Channel or Discovery Channel to this guy? I like how confident he is….”you realize…”.
Australia is on the moon!
Hi Eric Pepin,
If Japan were south of the Equator you’d be right, but it’s not. I know the recent earthquake moved it a few metres but not that much… http://www.free-photos.biz/images/nature/earth/world_map_with_equator.jpg
converting 10.5mm DX lense to FX by shave the lense hood,such a good idea,,,
In the Battle video, what was the camera that “misfired”? : )
the one with the film dangling out? Nikon FA with MD15 motor drive. PMAS, matrix metering, 1/4000, 1/250 sync, ttl. prob most versatile manual focus nikon ever!
To me it looked an F3, probably the most common version, which is the F3HP or “High Eyepoint” model. The angle of the motor drive seems to confirm it and that would be the MD-4. The base of the motor drives for the lighter models is shorter, without the forward slant.
Considering the humorous intent of the video I cannot think of a better choice of camera to include. The F3 constitutes, at least in my mind, the alignment of the design features found in earlier “pro-grade” Nikon equipment with the most fundamental values of traditional masculinity, which the video captures with remarkable effectiveness.
I anyone has interest in understanding the historical mystique of Nikon professional-grade equipment and does not yet own an F3, I would suggest getting one. They can be found in near perfect condition for less than $300 and the motor drives are just about everywhere. I have two F3 bodies, one of which I use with both, the MD-4 Motor Drive and the relatively rare MK-1 Firing Rate Reducer (not shown in the video). The MK-1 is used to give 1, 2, or 3 frames per second, or the maximum allowed by the drive. The entire package is one impressive piece of “ordnance” even though the F3 alone is small enough to make it a very practical 35mm camera.
o.. my bad! it IS an F3. can see by the flash attachment.
at least no one died
Don’t think I’ll be shaving anytime soon. A few years ago there was a product marketed as a lense cleaner that you applied like a collodion and peeled off with the dirt attached. I wonder if that would be used to give the element a bit of protection during the procedure. If the product is still available.
Hell, some simple quality masking tape would work just fine…That guy is taking risks for no reason.
Nikon D700 with a 16mm lens captures space shuttle Endeavour’s last flight. >> Did the D700 get toasted by the space shuttle ? did it survive the amount of vibration caused by the launch ? Poor D70o, it must have been traumatized
If it didn’t survive….would you be looking at those pictures? If the d700 body was toasted…what do you think would happen to the memory card?
Tethered capture? The Nikon Wi-Fi broadcaster? Something like the Eye-fi?
I found another creative use for the 10.5 fisheye in the ultra durable high speed field:
http://www.visinst.com/Lenses.html
Chuck, here is another interesting use of the 10.5 fisheye:
http://nikonrumors.com/2010/09/30/nikkors-on-a-train.aspx/
Wow, that was quite the video
Why is the ebay auction for the 28mm 1.4 listed here? Is it your auction? It’s no exactly a rare lens.
The Japanese Ashton Kutcher seems a lot more likeable (and certainly a lot more attractive) than his American counterpart.
The band video was shot with nikon lens and probably with a 5D Mark II ! hehehe. I guess nikon didn’t had any FullHD DSLR at the time so the guys did with a canon. hehehe
Back from Seaworld (Orlando) $5.60 a gallon of gas !
I took a picture of the gas station’s sign (I wish I could post it on NR)
25lb (10kg) on my back all day under 90° (35c) I need to get rid of one of my lenses.
You can post the picture on the forum:
http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=3558
or on the [NR] flickr groups:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikonrumors/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikonrumorsforum/
Great battle video!
Don’t think the 28mm 1.4D on ebay is much of a big deal. Here in NJ, I saw one at a local photo store in Princeton for sale. In NYC alone, one smaller store (fotocare) carried 2-28mm 1.4 lenses on their used shelf. everyone shoulda sold those lenses for $3k, $4k before nikon started releasing the new AF-s f/1.4 lenses.
great battle f-stop video
I went to school with the guy who made the Battle at F-Stop ridge vid! Very cool video and very cool store; I get most of my gear through them.