Nikon USA removed D600 and D5100 from their MAP list

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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.

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Weekly Nikon news flash #231

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New: Rogue Safari DSLR pop-up flash booster.

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Not a surprise, but now it’s official: the old Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D lens is listed as discontinued.

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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)

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Nikon Europe is the main sponsor of the photo agency Noor.

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Guest post: Smoke Photography

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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.

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Are those the new Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras?

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I guess this week will be dominated by patents and guests posts… First, few patents (USD682338USD684203 and USD683779) that show different Nikon 1 camera designs. Could those be the new set of Nikon 1 cameras that will be announced in the next few months? All three patents were filed on March 6th, 2012. Maybe the small bump on the top of the first camera design is for built-in Wi-Fi/GPS?

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Guest post: Into the Arctic – Nikon D800E field test

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Today Jonathan Björklund (websiteFacebook) will share his experiences shooting with the Nikon D800E in the Arctic (click on image for larger view):

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Another Nikon patent for a 300mm f/4 lens with diffractive optical element (DOE)

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Nikon filed a patent in Japan for a 300mm lens with a diffractive optical element  (Canon has a good DOE explanation on their website). The exact aperture was not specified, but I am pretty sure it’s f/4 (see this patent from last year). This is an interesting development because I expect Nikon to announce a new 300mm f/4 lens in the next few months. The remaining details from the patent application:

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The latest Nikon patents (100mm f/2.5 medium format lens, RGBW AE array)

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The first patent application is rather unusual – it describes a Nikon 100mm f/2.5 medium format lens. As far as I can remember, this is the first medium format lens patent from Nikon.

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