Monthly Archives: December 2011

Weekly Nikon news flash #141

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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 [...]

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Interview with Nikon about their upcoming cameras

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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 [...]

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Correction: Nikon D4 ISO range will be 100-12800

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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 [...]

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Cropped Nikon D800 samples at high ISO

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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 [...]

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Nikon D4 may start shipping at the end of January 2012!

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Contrary to my initial guess, the latest intel suggests that the Nikon D4 will start shipping at the end of January 2012! Of course availability will be limited for months if not years. I am still trying to confirm/verify this info but if that’s the case, I can see that Nikon wants to get their [...]

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