Update: Amazon has now also reduced the price of the Nikon D600 camera.
Adorama currently offers several free accessories with the purchase of a Nikon D600 body:
If you remove those accessories from your cart and enter coupon code S123456789 during checkout, you will get $100 off the total price (this is on top of the current $100 instant savings – total $1,896.95 instead of $1,996.95 with free shipping and 4% in rewards):
Nikon announced the development and deployment of OPTIA – a device that is able to measure all forms of lens aberration. The new system includes also a dedicated image simulator. This technology will help the company produce “high-performance lenses with unique characteristics” and “provide customers with interchangeable lenses that offer new forms of value never before seen“:
I received some information that Nikon will be having a world-wide announcement this Thursday, September 19th (the official press release should be out around midnight tomorrow, Wednesday EST). The new product was described to me as a “Nikon 1 rugged camera”. This is most likely the previously rumored underwater camera that will be part of the Nikon 1 product line, but I am not sure yet if it will be marketed as “rugged” or “underwater” model.
Several new price drops on refurbished Nikon products (all include a full 1 year warranty):
| Refurbished product | Old price | New price | Price drop |
| Nikkor 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR ED lens (refurbished) | 529.00 | 519.00 | -10.00 |
| Nikon D3 DSLR camera body (refurbished) | 2899.95 | 2849.95 | -50.00 |
| Nikkor PC-E 24mm f/3.5 D ED lens (refurbished) | 1699.95 | 1599.95 | -100.00 |
| Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 G VR ED lens (refurbished) | 1099.95 | 1089.95 | -10.00 |
| Nikon Coolpix P500 – factory (refurbished) | 249.00 | 229.00 | -20.00 |
| Nikon 200-400mm f/4G VR II lens (refurbished) | 6099.95 | 6049.95 | -50.00 |
| Nikon D3200 DSLR camera body (refurbished) | 389.00 | 369.00 | -20.00 |
| Nikon WU-1a Wi-Fi mobile adapter (refurbished) | 59.00 | 48.00 | -11.00 |
Expected the first D600 price drop tomorrow after Nikon removed the camera from their MAP list. On a related note, new Nikon D800 is currently listed for $2,577.82 on eBay:
As of September 14th Nikon USA removed the D600 and D5100 cameras from their MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) list. This means that US dealers can now sell those two models at any price they wish and will not be punished for that. Nikon is trying to clean inventory for the upcoming D610 and D5300 cameras. The D5100 is already officially listed as discontinued. I expect the price of new D600 DSLRs to drop down in the next few days.
New: Rogue Safari DSLR pop-up flash booster.
Not a surprise, but now it’s official: the old Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D lens is listed as discontinued.
There were three memory cards announcements last week: new Lexar four bay USB 3.0 reader hub | SanDisk 256GB Extreme Pro CF card (160MB/S) | SanDisk CFast 2.0 (450 MB/s)
Nikon Europe is the main sponsor of the photo agency Noor.
This guest post on smoke photography is by Paul Bonnichsen:
Fall photography brings photographers out in droves, but as winter approaches the majority of photographers pack their cameras away until spring. I somewhat fell into this pattern for many years except that my commercial photography continues year around. My life and photography changed two years ago when I viewed my first smoke photo on the internet. The beauty I saw in smoke reminded me of my first glimpse inside lower Antelope Canyon.
