where there’s smoke there’s fire

Update: this rumor is busted – the third lens was the manual 35mm f/1.4 AIS lens. What some readers still don’t get is that this site is based on a comunity effort – many times I have questions and ask for help – I do not know everything.

I received this email today:

“Today I wanted to buy a Nikon 35 1.8 Dx in a store in Austria, they looked after it in the computer and found 3 Nikkor 35mm lenses: 35mm f2 , 35mm f1.8 dx and a 35mm f1.4.
I ddn´t know that nikon made a 1.4 version of this lens…”

Why I find this interesting? Because last year, we had the same situation few weeks before the Nikon AF-s 50mm f/1.4 was released – see this translation from German and this post: for some reason the inventories in some stores got updated with the new models shortly before the official release.

If anyone in Austria or Germany is working in a camera store – can you please check what kind of Nikon 35 mm lenses are listed in the computer? Thanks.

From a reader in Europe (working in a photo store):

“Yesterday we received an email from Nikon headquarters that the AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED will be available again at least here in Europe starting at the end of March.”

The rumor was that this lens was discontinued and was not present on many of the latest price lists. Not sure what is going on – maybe Nikon is just pushing its final stock.