Christian Fletcher is a well known professional photographer from Western Australia and has been a Canon fan for many years – his camera is a Canon 5D MKII. He shoots mainly landscape / panorama. This is what he wrote on his blog a week ago (direct post link):
Note that his post is labeled with the “Nikon D700x”, “New Nikon camera release” and “Nikon Rumours” tags.
New lens was announced today: Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II VC LD Aspherical IF lens (actually few sites leaked it already yesterday). This is a DX lens with a new Vibration Compensation (VC) mechanism and has 6 years warranty (product web page).
Price: US$649 (Amazon is taking pre-orders).
Availability: September.
Full press release after the break:
I received this tip anonymously – I have no idea if the described issue is real or not (my D300s is still on order). Please take this with a grain of salt until we get some real reports from the field:
D300s movie recording issue
Apparently D300s has few issues with movie recording. below is a Q&A written by Nikon to distributors.
Q1： During movie shooting, recording stopped before the count down display reached “00m 00s.” Does this indicate damage or a defect?
A1：We will need to inspect your camera. Please contact an authorized Nikon service representative.
Q2：Why does this issue occur?
A2：Movies may not be recorded when external microphone is used and free space on the memory card is running low.
Q3：Is there anything that can be done to prevent this from occurring?
A3：Yes.
Nikon service representatives will make adjustments to your camera.
Q4：What adjustments have been made?
A4：The length of movie-recording time displayed before shooting has been adjusted.
Q5：What changes can be expected when adjustments are made?
A5：With same free space on a memory card, the length of movie-recording time may decrease after the adjustments.
Q6：Under what conditions does this issue occur?
A6：We have confirmed that it may occur when movies are recorded at a frame size of 320 X 216 with external microphone.
Can someone confirm if such warning was sent from Nikon to distributors?
Alibaba is selling digital camera flash tubes for Nikon SB-700 flash unit:
At the same time you can make a search for any unreleased Nikon model on this site and you will find several matches: Nikon D800, Nikon D400, etc. The flash tubes however could be real.
Update: for some reason several Best Buy stores already have the Nikon S70 in stock.
The latest Nikon p&s models will be delayed as follow (1 month later than originally expected):
Nikon Japan via Engadget
Engadget also just published a “Nikon D300s unboxing and hands-on” article.
Update – Nikon’s official statement:
Q: Is Nikon software compatible with Mac OS X “Snow Leopard”?
A: Nikon generally announces compatibility information for new OS versions within 30 days of the OS release and until compatibility is announced we suggest not upgrading critical systems as we cannot guarantee operation. Initial testing of Nikon software with Apple’s new “Snow Leopard” Mac OS 10.6 indicates that there are incompatibilites with Nikon Capture NX 2, Nikon View NX and Nikon Scan, users of these applications should not upgrade their OS at this time. When more compatibility information is available it will be posted on the Nikon web site.
On Firday Apple started selling the latest version of their operating system Snow Leopard. I haven’t ordered mine yet, but a NR reader send me those screenshots – apparently there is some kind of a problem and a weird menu is displayed when ViewNX 1.4.0 and Camera Control Pro 2.6 run on Snow Leopard:
ViewNX 1.4.0 and Snow Leopard
Nikon Camera Control Pro 2.6 & Snow Leopard
Also some issues with the latest verions of Capture NX2.2.2″
“Capture NX2.2.2 will launch after installation, however the previews in the browser window will show no image and opening NEF files causes error messages, so we’re unable to open files with that. I deleted 2.2.2 and installed 2.2.0 which shows the previews nicely and opens files like it should.”
Anyone else experiencing similar problem? Any solutions?
