Category Archives: Nikon Lenses

Nikon 70-200 mm

I am not going to mention the country this came from, but this is the rumor I got: “I can confirm the rumor about the new 70-200. I had a lunch with the vice-president from Nikon Imaging a few months ago and he confirmed to me that there will be a new 70-200 with nano crystal […]

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Eyewitness report: Ritz is low/out of stock on primes

The following Lenses are out of stock and not expected to return in stock from Ritz camera: 85mm 1.4 85mm 1.8 50mm 1.4 50mm 1.8 28mm 2.8 These are out of stock in the western half of the US, and most likely the whole company, which means stock is limited to whatever a store has […]

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Nikon D90 revealed – yes it does have video + a new lens

  The replacement for the D80 will be called D90: Live View build in microphone HDMI and GPS connectors 12mp, ~4.5 fps  video recording new lens 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR  

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Eyewitness report: New VR Zoom-NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED lens

Eyewitness report from someone that works for a major US authorized Nikon reseller – the rumors is that we will see a replacement of the AF VR Zoom-NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED lens soon: 80-400 VR lenses are getting incredibly scarce. I had a D700 customer today who wanted one and there are zero in our warehouse, and only […]

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Rumors on dpreview: new Nikon 85 mm f/1.4

Here is the link: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1030&message=28774410 Manual focus? I don’t think so.

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Report on new lenses

A reader posted this as a comment to an existing entry (in order to remain anonymous – no email reference): “35 afs 50 something. Source isn’t solid on this. Either 1.8 af-s, 1.4 IF, or 1.2 with electronic vignetting correction for d3 d700 with firmware upgrade.I have no details on the third.” Then I asked […]

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Graham Watson: “The 70-200mm will be replaced in September by a newer version, the ‘N’ series”

Thank you for that one J.   Graham Watson has been a Nikon shooter for a long time. In the Ask Graham section of his site http://www.grahamwatson.com/gw/askgraham.nsf/AskGraham you will find (scroll down to 07/13/2008):   Bob – 07/13/2008:Graham, your pics of the tour are fantastic as always. On the sunny days do you use fill flash to help fill […]

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