Update: The initially reported June 28th date is actually the release/on-sale date for the two new lenses according to digicame-info, the announcement should happen earlier. According to digicame-info.com, Nikon will announce their new 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 and 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses on June 28th, 2012. The previously rumored June 15th announcement will probably be for the 70 […]
Nikon will soon mark their 70 million Nikkor lenses milestone. It took Nikon 6 months to produce 5 Million lenses in 2011 (65 Million lenses were announced in October 2011; the 60 million milestone was in April, 2011). The official press release will probably come out with the new Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 VR full frame lens, maybe this Friday.
Underwater camera case for Nikon 1 J1/V1 found on eBay. Pixel will be coming with a cheaper battery grip for the Nikon D800 (the original MB-D12 costs $449). Nikon Japan issued a second statement on the high demand for D800/D800E cameras (first statement was released back in April): “D800 D800E is, after the date of announcement of […]
Nikon filed a patent 201294984 in Japan for a new panning feature that will combine a high shutter speed image of the main subject and a low shutter speed image of the background:
The new Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 VR full frame lens could be announced next week. I don’t have an exact date but June 15th keeps coming up. The D600 will probably not be announced with the new 24-85mm lens. Nikon may have another, not product related announcement as well.
CNN published this video report on the canceled “comfort women” photo exhibition by Ahn Sehong that was supposed to take place in the Nikon Salon gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition was canceled by Nikon without any explanations.
I already mentioned that with the D600 Nikon will release a new range of “cheaper” FX lenses. The first lens in that category will be the Nikkor 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 VR. There is already an existing patent for a 24-70mm f/3.5-4.5 lens and one of the calculations is exactly for a 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 version. Expect the […]
DxOMark just released their test results for the recently announced Nikon D3200 DSLR camera ($699) which scored the #10 spot on their overall score list (5 of the top 10 cameras are made by Nikon; there are also 3 Phase One and 2 Pentax models). Here is the Nikon D3200 compared to the D5100 and […]
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