Nikon D60 next to be discontinued?

By [NR] admin | Published: May 18, 2009

Nikon D40 is already discontinued. I also got multiple reports that the Nikon D60 is low in stock, not available or discontinued in some online retailers (the reports were mainly from Europe). Quick check in the US: 

B&H is out of stock:

nikon-d60-discontinued-bh

Adorama is out of stock:

nikon-d60-discontinued-adorama

Amazon still has it in stock.

NR rating system: 80%

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| Tagged , | 20 Comments

Punk’d

By [NR] admin | Published: May 18, 2009

Nikon D400 DSLR @ Cannes, France

NR rating system: 0%

Posted in Nikon D400, Nikon Humor Rumor| Tagged | 21 Comments

Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D rumor

By [NR] admin | Published: May 17, 2009

Back to what we do best – Nikon rumors. This was sent in by a reader:

I know we’ve all heard this a 1000x but I was at my local camera store on Saturday and asked them if the Nikon rep had mentioned any new releases from Nikon. The salesman told me that the rep told him that Nikon had the updated 80-400mm VR coming soon. When I asked how soon was soon, he said the rep didn’t mention any release date.

FYI the current Nikon 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D was released back in 2000.

NR rating system: 60%

I will start giving probability % on each of the rumors I post – I find this to be a better system and many readers have asked for it. This number will reflect the reliability of the source, the number of times I have received this rumors, some common sense and my personal gut feeling, which should improve over time. Each of the percentage groups will be included as a tag for easy access and filtering.
Posted in Nikon Lenses| Tagged | 16 Comments

Nikon D90 FATBOX now official

By [NR] admin | Published: May 17, 2009

After several leaks in German sites (link) today Nikon officially announced the  Nikon D90 FATBOX:

nikon-d90-fatbox

Posted in Nikon D90| 14 Comments

Polls – NR feedback, please vote

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

My post about the Thom Hogan’s “special surprise book” caused some controversy (you can read all the comments if you have the time). Everything boils down to the same old question:  should I post any Nikon rumor (basically what I have been doing so far) or should I write only about info from verified, trusted sources? I just went through another one of those “I should have posted that” – Sony just released 3 new DSLR… with SD/SDHC media support. I had this info few weeks ago, did not believe it and did not post it. Now it is a fact. Now you know why I post every Nikon rumor I find.

Here is the first polls:


and another, more general poll about the future of NR:

 

 

  

 

 

Please vote responsibly, I will change my way of posting based on those polls. Feel free to leave any feedback in the comments section. Thanks!

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| Comments closed

Nikon related links/news

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

Those are Nikon related news that were not important enough to get their own post during the week – they will get dump here every weekend (I have been doing this for the past few months already):

nikon-lens-patent

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 4 Comments

Nikon tech gone wrong

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

Nikon S630 is not “blink proof”:

nikon-face-recognition-wrong

flick via gizmodo

Posted in Nikon Humor Rumor, Nikon Point and Shoot| Tagged | 15 Comments

The D5000 dude in Nikon’s video

By [NR] admin | Published: May 15, 2009

You probably still remember the Nikon D5000 dude and the promotional video he was in that actually brought us one of the first D5000 spy shots (refresh your memory here and here):

Posted in Nikon D5000| 13 Comments

Thom Hogan working on a “special surprise book”

By [NR] admin | Published: May 15, 2009

surprise-nikon-bookIs this a publicity stunt or Thom Hogan does know something we don’t? His books are all about Nikon hardware (and two Fuji books).

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| Tagged | 74 Comments

Nikon Nikkor F 300mm f/4.5 IF ED

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

I would probably say a typo and move on, but the “Nieuw” label on those two listings makes me nervous. There is a current Nikon lens model AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4D IF-ED (currently back ordered @ B&H) that was released back in 2000. Note also that the two listing below are not for a D-type lens (the existing lens is a D type). I do not have a good explanation for the different prices:

new-nikon-lens

Source

new-nikon-lens2

Source

Posted in Nikon Lenses| 37 Comments