Adorama has updated their Nikon D4 listing with an estimated delivery of late March, 2012:
New item Available for pre-order, Delivery scheduled to start Late March 2012. You may place this on order now and it will be shipped on a first come first serve basis. We do not charge your card until we actually ship the item to you.
I do believe the first Nikon D4 shipment is delayed and Amazon probably did not get the memo.
Some additional Nikon coverage from the 2012 CP+ show in Japan. All images and videos are copyrighted and belong to their respective owners. Click on images for larger view. Throughout the weekend I will be also uploading CP+ coverage from other manufacturers on PhotoRumors, check it out.
The first report is from Samuel Morse – expect a detailed post on the D800E on his blog in the next few days:
As for my impressions, there were a couple things I haven’t heard anyone say yet about the new Nikons. Having the dedicated movie record button on top, moving the mode button closer to the flash, puts the mode button just out of reach without moving your hand. It was really surprising to me at first, but I could see probably getting used to it, and it’s not a button I use with great frequency, so it’s a minor quibble. Overall, the D800E felt really good in my hands, better than my D700 in some ways. The prints from the D800E were up on the wall and you could just walk right up to them and look closely, and the detail held up beautifully. My main beef with it is a marketing one. Nikon says that when the D800(E) is in its crop modes, it masks the rest of the viewfinder to tell you where your view is. This is not the case. It doesn’t truly mask it with a 50 percent black like the D3 or D4 do. It just makes a box like the D700. I really wish they had added the higher-end masking.
Contrary to the information I received from multiple sources few days ago about the Nikon D4 shipment delay (which was also reported by several other websites, unless they just recycle what they read here), Amazon just sent emails to certain pre-orders with a D4 estimated arrival date of February 17 and in some cases February 21st, 2012:
Nikon 18mm f/1.8 lens patent
Nikon filed a patent 2012-27450 in Japan for a 18mm f/1.8 and 20mm f/1.8 full frame lenses:
An interesting article found on bernama.com about the production capacity of the Nikon plant in Sendai:
“With the current 1,600 workers, the factory is producing one unit of camera per minute on a daytime shift with each unit of the D800 variant produced every four hours and the D4 variant every five hours.”
The Nikon D4 and D800 are made out of 1,600 components.
BestBuy is also taking pre-orders for the Nikon D800, but the actual listing is buried in the site – go to www.bestbuy.com and search for “D800” of for the SKU “4827167“. The Nikon D800E is not listed.
Full list of pre-order options available here.
Nikon D800 with MB-D12 battery grip
The latest Nikon D800 updates:
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