Monthly Archives: November 2015

Shooting an airshow with the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens

    This Shooting an airshow with the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens post is by Jason Chu: Greetings NR readers!  My name is Jason and I have been a Hawaii based photographer for the past 6 years.  A month ago I decided to see an airshow as I haven’t been to […]

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The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR lens review for birding

  This Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR lens review for birding is by Willy Alfaro Cervantes: In mid October I lead a bird watching trip, 10 days around Costa Rica, photographing birds. I used a Nikon D7200 with the Nikkor 300mm E PF ED VR and a Nikkor TC-14E III.  All pictures […]

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Nikon 300mm f/4E PF ED VR and 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lenses now in stock

The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR lens is currently in stock at B&H, Amazon and BestBuy. The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens is also currently in stock at Amazon and Adorama.

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Firmware update version 1.3 for the Nikon Coolpix P900 camera now available

Nikon released firmware version 1.3 for the Coolpix P900 camera that fixes the issue with some Points of Interest (POI) in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan not being displaying correctly. A reader informed me yesterday that Amazon received a new P900 shipment that was user to fulfill existing pre-orders. Third party resellers (with US warranty) currently have […]

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Nikon, Sony and Canon sales comparison for last financial quarter

Interesting comparison from Amateurphotographer on the demand/sales between Nikon, Sony and Canon products for the last quarter:

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Nikon 1 Nikkor 9-30mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens patented in Japan

Nikon continues to actively file lens patents for their Nikon 1 mirrorless system (1″ sensor). The latest patent application is for a Nikkor 9-30mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens. Here are few more Nikon 1 lens patents filed in the past few months:

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New Tokina SD 14-20mm f/2 IF DX lens for APS-C cameras leaked online

The French magazine Focus Numérique published a picture of a new Tokina SD 14-20mm f/2 IF DX lens designed for APS-C based cameras. I do not remember seeing anything online about such lens – it will probably be a replacement for the current Tokina AT-X 11-20mm f/2.8 PRO DX (pictured below for comparison) and will be announced during […]

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Nikon also makes tripods

You learn something new every day – I did not know that Nikon is also selling tripods – few different models are available at B&H Amazon and Adorama. Those are probably produced by third party and just rebranded with the Nikon logo. The small compact 2-way version is currently $15 off (38%).

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