The first Nikon D850 cooled camera for astrophotography is now available for sale – a company converts a regular Nikon D850 to an Astro D850. The price is $4,950 ($1,650 over the regular D850 price of 3,296). To achieve effective cooling, they actually moved the sensor outside of the camera and performed several other modifications: “We […]
→ The Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens is now £130 off in the UK: Amazon UK | WEX | Park Camera. → Old Nikon F5 commercial.
This Nikon AF-S Nikkor 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR lens ($12,396.95) field test is by Kjetil Schjølberg (Instagram) – the pictures were taken with the D850 in Norway and Kenya: The last ten days I was able to test the new Nikon 180-400mm in a variety of situations. As mainly a wildlife photographer I […]
Havana people with the Nikon Df and an old Nikkor 28mm manual lens by Julien Hautcoeur (Web | Instagram | Facebook | Tumblr | Flickr | see also his previous guest post): Getting closer Famous Magnum photographer Robert Capa once said: « If Your Photos Aren’t Good Enough, You’re Not Close Enough ». Here is the challenge I wanted to achieve when […]
The price of the new Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens is now officially announced: $1,599/£1,500/€1,499. Pre-orders are now open at: B&H Adorama Amazon Park Camera (UK) The price of the Nikon 105mm f/1.4E ED lens is $2,196.95. Additional information on the latest Sigma lens can be found here, sample photos are available here: Sigma announces the […]
The Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lens for Nikon F-mount is now available for pre-order at B&H. I believe this is an old lens (announced in Japan in 2016?) and I am not sure why it just got listed for pre-order as a “new release”. Maybe this is a new version? Shipping is expected to […]
Nikon released firmware update version 1.30 for the Nikon D5 DSLR camera (I reported about it yesterday on social media: Facebook, Twitter and Google+). The new firmware can be downloaded from Nikon’s website. Here is the changelog:
