Monthly Archives: March 2015

Weekly Nikon news flash #307

→ Nikon announced a new ASC-01 stainless steel hot-shoe cover in Japan (available on eBay). → New book: Nikon D5500 Experience. → Adobe released Camera Raw 8.8 with Nikon D5500 support and new lens profiles for eight Nikon F mount lenses. The DNG Converter 8.8 is available for download: Windows | Mac. → Nikon lens price increase coming to Canada […]

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Nikon 20mm f/1.8G ED lens tested at DxOMark

    DxOMark published their test results for the Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens ($796.95, see review):

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New Nikon download center launched with several new software updates

Nikon’s new download center is now live at downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com. In addition to the new ViewNX‑i version 1.0.0, Nikon also released updates to several other products:

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Nikon D7200 and Coolpix P900 cameras now in stock

  The new Nikon D7200 camera is currently in stock in almost all retailers: Amazon Adorama B&H Best Buy BuyDig WEX (UK) Jessops (UK) Amazon (UK) Amazon (Germany) Amazon (Japan) Foto Hans Keuzekamp (NL)   Nikon Coolpix P900 (user’s manual) is also available: Amazon (will start shipping on March 23th) Adorama B&H WEX (UK) Jessops (UK) Amazon (UK) Amazon […]

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Printable Nikon lens hood templates

Back in 2013 I already covered here on the blog the website www.lenshoods.co.uk where you can download printable lens hoods for various Nikon lenses. In the past two years they have added several new templates and have launched a new site called lenshoods.com which is “optimized for digital SLRs with 1.5x and 1.6x crop sensors”.

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Nikon D7200 and AW130 cameras to start shipping tomorrow

The new Nikon D7200 is supposed to start shipping tomorrow according to the product listings at B&H, Adorama and Amazon UK (the press release however stated early April release). The new waterproof Coolpix AW130 camera is also scheduled to start shipping on March 19th. This is a previously scheduled robo-post.

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Nikon ViewNX-i software now available for download

The new Nikon image browsing software ViewNX-i should be available for download today – check this website for more details. Additional ViewNX-i information can be found here. This is a previously scheduled robo-post.

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