Bits and pieces of Nikon rumors from around the web:
Ellis Vener made a comment on photo.net:
“More fast wide angle prime lenses are definitely in the pipeline, but I can’t say more than that.” (from Oct 29, 2009, 09:53 am).
If you read his first comment on this thread, Mr. Vener had the opportunity to shoot with [...]
Those are the Nikon rumors I did not consider to be important enough for a separate post, so lower your expectations or skip this post all together:
Nikon D500:
“I live in Bangkok, Thailand and while I was at my local store asking about the D300 i heard an interesting rumor. The store owner said his friend [...]
This rumor has been going around for a while and it seems that now Nikon confirmed it (according to a ProLost reader who received this email from Nikon):
“We are working on an update to these equipments to allow manual selection of shutter speeds and ISO during D-Movie mode and more, we don’t have a specific [...]
Some crops form the spy shots:
and for comparison here is a D40 shot from above:
As some readers have noticed, the pop-up flash shape is different and the mode dial button has 13 settings (the D40 has only 12). I think one of the settings reads “SCENE”, the rest appear to be identical.
I actually got in touch with the person who took those pictures. The location was Dubrovnik, Croatia where a camera crew was shooting a commercial (possibly for Nikon). The pictures were taken yesterday. I also got 3 new ones (click for high-res):
Update: forgot to mention that the camera used in the commercial shoot was an Arriflex 435. [...]
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