Category Archives: Weekly Nikon News Flash

Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 EX DC OS HSM price announced: US: $669.00 | UK: £649.99, expected to ship within 1 to 2 months. Nikon Coolpix L18 camera survives 1,100 miles ocean trip to Florida. Official press release from Nikon: Nikon equipment to be used in the Russian segment of the International Space Station. New orders received for Nikon D3S […]

Deal alert: Nik Software Complete Collection Software Plug-in for Lightroom & Aperture for $189.95″. Update: I just posted a sneak peak video of the new HDR software from NIK on PhotoRumors.com Adobe released Lightroom 3 (cd from Amazon | download from Adobe) Dandelion chip is designed to be installed on adapter rings and manual lenses […]

Soon I will have the weekly Nikon news/links section on a separate blog on NR so you don’t have to wait till the weekend to see the updates. The main blog will stay untouched. The biggest Nikon lenses – one of them is currently on eBay: Nikon 11/2000 mm Reflex-Nikkor-C. Some serious shooting is going […]

Nikon cashback in Belgium for June and July: €75 for a D90 (or kit), €150 for a D300s (or kit), €200 for a D700 (or kit). “I am Nikon a D90 fatbox” in Germany (I know, you probably have enough of those rebates but they represent the current Nikon strategy world wide). Voigtlander 90mm f/3.5 […]

ThinkTankPhoto’s new Retrospective line is now available. The new Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 APO EX DG HSM OS is now in stock. Voigtländer Apo-Lanthar 90mm SL II price announced in Europe: €549 or £487.62 (Nikon mount available). New gizmo: SteadePod, “a patented camera steadying device”. Rayqual will produce adapter for the Sony NEX cameras (Sony E […]

First, a word about our new affiliate sponsor: BorrowLenses.com. The space shuttle Atlantis had its final launch last Friday and I was there to witness this historic event. Since I could not get tickets to the Kennedy space center (6 miles away from the launch pad), my only option was to watch the lift-off from the closest […]

Rare Nikon lenses on eBay: Nikon 300mm 300mm f/2.0 IF-ED lens (more info on this lens available here). Nikon 800mm F/5.6 ED AIS lens (released 1986) Another pro (Karl Grobl) switches from Canon to Nikon – see his posts here and here. Hanson music video was shot on Canon 7D and Nikon lenses (source). Diglloyd.com has […]