Contrary to the information I received from multiple sources few days ago about the Nikon D4 shipment delay (which was also reported by several other websites, unless they just recycle what they read here), Amazon just sent emails to certain pre-orders with a D4 estimated arrival date of February 17 and in some cases February 21st, [...]
Nikon released NEF Codec v1.13.0 that adds D4 support (Windows only).
Nikon filed a patent 2012-27450 in Japan for a 18mm f/1.8 and 20mm f/1.8 full frame lenses: Focal length: 18.4mm Aperture: 1.84 Angle of view: 100.3deg Lens design: 14 elements in 11 groups 3 aspherical elements 3 ED elements
An interesting article found on bernama.com about the production capacity of the Nikon plant in Sendai: “With the current 1,600 workers, the factory is producing one unit of camera per minute on a daytime shift with each unit of the D800 variant produced every four hours and the D4 variant every five hours.” The Nikon D4 and [...]
BestBuy is also taking pre-orders for the Nikon D800, but the actual listing is buried in the site – go to www.bestbuy.com and search for “D800″ of for the SKU “4827167″. The Nikon D800E is not listed. Full list of pre-order options available here.
The latest Nikon D800 updates: Adorama and B&H are now taking pre-orders for the Nikon MB-D12 battery grip for D800 (MS-D12EN battery tray is also available). Today the CP+ show opened its doors in Japan and the D800 will be on display – see the first image of the Nikon booth. I will have several readers sending [...]
Here are the first few images from the Nikon booth at the CP+ show in Japan (click for larger view)
