Category Archives: Nikon D300s

Nikon prices going up

I received several reports that the prices of some Nikon equipment went up in the last few days. Few of the mentioned items are: Nikon D300s body only (current prices: B&H $1529.95, Adorama $1599.00, Amazon $1449.00) Nikon D700 body only (current prices: B&H 2699.95, Adorama $2599.00, Amazon $2399.95) Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VRII lens (current prices: B&H: 2299.00, […]

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Nikon D300s slowly phasing out

A follow up on this post from yesterday: Nikon Service Point Munchen is selling their Nikon D300s demo camera on eBay: Nikon Service Point Munchen has been a good indicator of discontinued products in the past: when they sold their last D300 on eBay in 2009, the D300s was announced a month later.

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Nikon D300s orders no longer possible in Switzerland

The Swiss retailer Brack (in English) has listed the Nikon D300s as “keine nachbestellung möglich” which means “can not be ordered any longer”: A reader contacted the store directly and got the same response from the product manager. Brack is a large electronics reseller and they deliver to several different stores in Switzerland. After the release of the D7000, the price of […]

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A quick giveaway (#5) while we are waiting

Update #2: the winner is Camille Miller. Update: this giveaway is now closed. The winner will be picked shortly by the forum mods here. You can win this Nikon D300s book by David Busch (bibliography | more info). The rules are simple – just leave a comment to this post. I will close all comments on the […]

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Four firmware updates from Nikon for D300s, D700, D3, D3x

Nikon D700 A/B 1.0.2 Nikon D300S A/B 1.0.1 Nikon D3 A/B: 2.02 Nikon D3x B:1.01 The main fixes/additions are improved white balance,  support for 64 GB memory cards, some GPS changes.

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Official Nikon D300s survey

Nikon just sent out a D300s survey (via email). It seems that this survey is not personalized and everyone can do it (at least in the US) – here is the link. There are a lot of questions about lenses. Tell Nikon what you think!

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And the winners of the Nikon D300s book are…

The winners of the Nikon D300s book by David Busch are: Michel Lamy and Ashley Quinn. Congratulations! To everybody else: there is more to come, soon. Stay tuned!

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Nikon Rumors giveaway #3

This giveaway is now closed. I will announce the winners tomorrow. 596 comments total. Since it is slow on Nikon rumors, I will start giving stuff away. Here is the first one: Amazon just got in stock the new Nikon D300s book by David Busch (bibliography | more info on this book can be found […]

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