Category Archives: Weekly Nikon News Flash

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 […]

The new Lexar Professional Series 300x and 600x CompactFlash cards are now available. Rare lens on eBay: Nikon 11/2000 mm Reflex-Nikkor-C for US $19,950.00. More info available here: “This is the longest reaching and the largest dimension Nikkor optical lens for 35mm photography. It works almost like a optical telescope which projects a compelling 40X magnification of the […]

The winners from the last giveaway: Jay A from the US won the Nikon D3s/x book and Bertrand from Belgium won the Nikon D700 book. Congratulations to the winners! Nikon Instant rebates expire on May 1st (next Saturday). Think Tank Photo giveaway TIPA announcements: Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II is the best professional lens […]

Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM FLD AF lens for APS-C (Nikon mount) gets priced in the US: $699. Zeiss released a series of compact cinema prime lenses that will be available with Nikon mount. Adobe CS5 is now available for pre-order. Adorama also various rebates on SanDisk (search their site for more). BorrowLenses now has the […]

I received a tip that Amazon shipped some Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM lenses yesterday (still listed as not released). Nikon Learn and Explore iPhone app now available in the UK. DIY (just for fun): how to fit a Nikon IR remote in a Lego block. Update: similar cheap grips are already available […]

Update: A reader just informed me about the Amazon promotional codes for the latest Nikon rebates (thanks David): here is Amazon’s official page for the Nikon instant rebates with the promotion code you will need to enter at checkout. Nikon SB-900 $100 instant rebate is also online @ Amazon and so is the $300 for the […]

I will be on the road the next few days with limited Internet access – here is the Nikon links section for this week: Nikon instant rebates expire tomorrow (US). A well known Canon shooter (Ole Jørgen Liodden) just switched to Nikon: check his site CanonFieldReviews.com for details. The site will soon change to NikonFieldReviews.com. Nikon […]