Some last minute holiday deals: Refurbished Nikon D3100 ($499.99), D5100 ($649.99) and D7000 ($999.99) Nikon Coolpix P300 for $239 Nikon D90 for $814.99 $270 off Nikon P7000 for $229 $150 off Nikkor 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lens $50 off Tokina 12-24mm f/4.0 lens $50 off Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens $140 off Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 lens $100 off Sigma 120-400 [...]
On January 6th, 2012 Nikon will have a major announcement. Expect the Nikon D4 and one new lens (probably AF-S 85mm f/1.8G). Friday is an unusual date for Nikon to introduce new products, but my understanding is that there will be press events scheduled in Las Vegas during the weekend before the PMA show that starts on January 10, [...]
New Yongnuo YN-565EX flash for Nikon released. Available on eBay for for around $150. Jessops UK offers “exclusive online discounts” on the Nikon D3x and D700. According to DCWatch, the Nikon D90 is the 2011 #2 top selling product in the electronics and camera category on Amazon Japan with 70,000 units sold (#1 was Apple’s iPod). New custom grip [...]
The Japanese Digital Camera Magazine did a series of interviews with leading camera manufacturers about their future products (see a recap of the interviews with Pentax and Olympus executives). The magazine will be published on December 19th, 2011 in Japan. A 12 pages preview of the upcoming issue can be downloaded here (the Nikon interview is on page 7). Here is a [...]
I have to make a correction to the Nikon D4 specs: the ISO sensitivity range of the D4 will be 100-12,800 and not 100-102,400 as initially reported. Sorry about that, it got lost in the translation! The ISO range will still be expandable to 50 and 204,800. For comparison, the Nikon D3s has ISO range of 200 – 12,800, expandable to [...]
I have mentioned before that I have several samples taken with the upcoming Nikon D800 camera. The TIFF files produced by the Nikon D800 are around 103 MB: Unfortunately I cannot publish the entire images online but I can show you few JPG crops taken at different ISO settings. It’s not much, but at least [...]
