Category Archives: Nikon Lenses

Need help from France and the UK (Nikon D700x & Nikkor 35mm f/1.4)

By [NR] admin | Published: August 16, 2009

A post on the Spanish forum ojodigital.com (Google translation): “In the September issue of the prestigious French magazine Réponses Photo, which has appeared today in the kiosks will be announced for September: – A Nikon D700x (or D800) to be the D3x what the D700 to the D3 (Sony 24 Mpx sensor).” Update: this what was […]

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Nikon Rumors I didn’t post (until now that is)

By [NR] admin | Published: August 14, 2009

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 […]

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More Nikon patents

By [NR] admin | Published: August 11, 2009

More Nikon patent applications became public in the past few days. Here is what I found to be interesting : Illuminating device for photographing and camera – a LED based flash? “An illuminating unit having a plurality of light emitting elements with axes of illuminating light fluxes from the plurality of light emitting elements different […]

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An updated list of not yet released Nikon lenses based on product numbers

By [NR] admin | Published: August 9, 2009

Nikon does release their lenses in sequence using four digit products numbers (as already discussed here and here). This is the updated list: #2168 – PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D ED #2169 – ??? #2170 – AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II #2171 – AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8G ED VR #2172 – AF-S NIKKOR 500mm […]

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More Nikon patents – hint for a mirrorless Nikon camera?

By [NR] admin | Published: August 5, 2009

Nikon filed a bunch of patents at the end of 2008 – here is the patent search result of Nikon + lens. Please note that most of those are just patent applications and may or may not lead to a final production model. The first interesting patent appears to be for a 24mm f/1.4 (application […]

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Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II now available for pre-order

By [NR] admin | Published: August 4, 2009

Another update: Amazon is now also taking pre-orders. Update: Calumet, J&R and Abes of Maine are now also taking pre-orders for that lens. Ritz aslo takes pre-orders now (search for 541533931) Adorama so far is the only major retailer that takes pre-orders for the new Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens. It is still […]

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Nikon continues to push DX lenses? ( new Nikkor 85mm VR DX patent)

By [NR] admin | Published: August 2, 2009

Very busy week – those rumors just won’t stop (check the latest Leica and Sony rumors). Back to Nikon: there is a new Nikon patent for what it appears to be a 85mm VR DX lens. This patent is not yet listed on Google Patents, but can be found here. Maybe somebody more technical than me can interpret […]

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