J&R has a Nikon Weekend from Jan 16-18 with some really good deals. It seems that they still have their lenses on the old prices and many are in stock. If you are in NYC check their in-store flyer.
J&R is also holding a series of free seminars at lunchtime. Light healthy snacks will be served 🙂
Circuit city liquidation sale begins today – check it out, they may have some good Nikon deals. I guess Nikon will never get their $14,926,445 back.
I will be making some changes to the RSS feeds. In case you stop receiving updates, make sure you are using the correct RSS feed link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NikonRumors
The old RSS feed (https://nikonrumors.com/feed) will/should automatically be redirected. If you don’t know what RSS feed is – click here (basically, instead of you going to NR, NR will come to you). Don’t like RSS? Get a good old email subscription.
In general, I would like to know if you have/had any technical problems with NikonRumors – slow page loads, page not available, etc. I made a bunch of upgrades recently and want to make sure everyone can access the site without any issues. According to my hosting company everything should be good, but I wanted to double check with the actual readers.
I am already aware of the avatar issue – I have a fix (new WordPress version 2.7) and will push it to the server soon. Has anyone updated their blog to WordPress 2.7? Any feedback?
BTW, if you want to create you own gravatars click here.
Sorry about the off-topic post.
Update: Another link for Capture NX tutorials. And another one.
Busy day today – thanks to everyone that sent me tips:
“At this time there are no Picture Control downloads for the D90 but they will be made available in the same location as the other ones, http://nikonimglib.com/opc/“. By the way, D3x controls are already available.”
“We will be having a price increase on February 1, 2009. Lenses will bare the brunt of this price increase. A number of lenses will have significant increases (Most kit lenses will not increase at that time.) Also, please note that back orders from January that carry into February will not be honored at the pre-February 1st prices.”
The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G lens is already $484.95 at B&H (up from $439, it was even $399 at one point). Adorama has the same price, Amazon sells it for $599 (ouch!).
If you need a need a lens, I suggest you buy it asap – try Adorama, Amazon, B&H, Calumet, Ritz or Abe’s of Maine – you may still get lucky (use those links to purchase if you want to support NR – same price to you – thanks). As I mentioned in an earlier post, many items may not be available until February 1st when the new prices will be introduced.
These lenses may be in stock, but they were completely removed online and in no way can they be ordered. The lenses that have been available before January but are no longer available are as follows:
All Sigma lenses, both Nikon and Canon mounts, are gone as well.
I am not sure what to make out of this report (from someone that works for Best Buy) – maybe they will wait for the price increase, maybe there are new lenses coming, or maybe they will just stop selling Nikon lenses.
Similar to what happened in the UK last week, Nikon US is canceling all back orders until the new prices kick in on February 1st.
I got multiple reports for a 8% – 10% increase in Nikon prices at the end of January, 2009 for Austria and Germany.
The interesting part is that the price of the D300 is going down, despite the price increases across the world. I would not be surprised if we see the new D400 even before PMA.
