Nikon Norway invites you to learn about the Nikon D7100

Nikon Norway sent out an invitation for advanced Nikon school that also lists the Nikon D7100 camera:

“In this course we examine the camera functions and menu system and offers advice on how to utilize them best. Nikon School is a 4-hour course held in smaller groups of up to 10 people. Course leader will help you with settings and gives you advice on methods to suit your camera and your motives, whether you are amateur or professional photographer. Nikon School is for you with D5100, D7100, D5000, D3100 and D7000.”

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Giving away $3000 worth of B&H giftcards in the next 3 days (purchase necessary)

For the next three days, you can take advantage of this exclusive offer from B&H and get up to a $50 gift card with your next purchase or win a $500 gift card (purchase necessary). Here is the break down:

  • For a purchase between $2000-$4000, you will get one $25 gift card from B&H
  • For a purchase of $4000 and more, you will get two $25 gift cards ($50) from B&H
  • For a purchase of $500 and more you will enter the drawing for a $500 gift card from B&H

The only requirement for this giveaway is to make your purchase from any of the B&H links in this post in the next 72 hours.

There are a total of one hundred $25 gift cards and one $500 gift card to give away. The $25 gift cards will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis in the next 72 hours based on the amount of your order (one $25 GC for purchases between $2000-$4000, two $25 GC for purchases above $4000). I will update this post once all gift cards are gone. The $500 gift card will be given to a random order of $500 or more placed in the next 72 hours. The gift cards will be sent to the same address as your order. Purchases not made from any of the B&H links on this post will not take part of this giveaway. For some extra savings, you can also take advantage of the current Nikon rebate program (see also all available rebates here):

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Nikon’s mirrorless F-mount adapter will support AF (plus new video mode specs)

Newer Nikkor lenses will be able to AF on the Nikon V1 and J1 mirrorless cameras with a new F-mount adapter

A quick update on the latest Nikon mirrorless camera specs I posted two days ago:

  • The Nikon-F adaptor for their mirrorless camera will support autofocus with AF-S and AF-I lenses (AF-I is the older integrated autofocus technology before AF-S, read more here).
  • The available mirrorless camera video modes will be: 1928×1080 at 60fps and 30fps plus 1280×760 at 60fps. The continuous shooting rate will be 10fps.
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Rumor: no new Canon DSLR cameras in 2011

There will probably be no new Canon DSLR cameras announced in 2011. Usually Canon and Nikon release new products just few weeks apart (sometimes even days apart).

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Weekly Nikon news flash #127

What Nikon’s mirrorless camera should be (thanks Chris):

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Nikon 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 mirrorless lens patent shows up in Japan

A patent for the 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 mirrorless lens showed also up in Japan (see US filing):

  • Patent publication: 2011-175098
  • Published on September 8, 2011
  • Filed on February 24, 2010
  • Focal length: 10.3-97.0mm
  • Aperture: 4.6-5.9
  • Image height: 8mm
  • Lens length: 128.784mm
  • 9.42x zoom ratio
  • One aspherical element
  • Internal zoom
  • Inner focus
  • VR
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Guest post: PocketWizard review

This guest post on PocketWizard was written by Jon G. Dishler:

PocketWizard is well known to the wireless flash photography world [with classics like the Plus II] for basic flash triggering and more recently for advanced triggering with the TT5 and Mini TT1 radios. One really nice feature is the ability to update these radios over the Internet.  This time they bring us Nikon version 3.0 and it is the most significant upgrade yet.  Radio triggers are all about timing, and finally with this release most if not all of Nikon’s secrets have been unlocked so that no matter what the settings in camera or flash, the timing is correct for the desired exposure.

I am not a professional photographer, and you might have a slightly different workflow, but I have shot over 50,000 frames as an authorized beta tester for LPA who owns PocketWizard. Scores of photographers have worked with them on many versions up to this release. I am not a paid consultant to the company, but have worked closely with them through this process over the last year. My short list of lingering complaints has vanished with this new 3.0 release.

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