Nikon official sweepstakes (US) can be found here.
Someone at dpreview claims to have won a Nikkor 24mm 2.8 lens.
With the current state of the economy, this may be an easy way to get your hands on some Nikon products.
The weekly prizes schedule can be found here.
AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED is now officially discontinued according to a Nikon support email:
“Lens Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S is discontinued and we don’t have any information about upcoming replacement.”
The lens is already removed from the official price list of Nikon UK.
Adorama ($1494.95), B&H ($1499.95) and Amazon ($1514.93) still has them in stock.
“Hi, my local camera store (in Texas) has started to take deposits on the D4 at $500 down.”
Their guess for the price is $6000. Availability: “could be by the holidays”
Rumors chatter started to pick up in anticipation of the world wide Nikon event on November 20th.
The first report came today from a Canadian Nikon Pro Dealer indicating that a new 21 or 24 MP body will be released on November 20th.
Our initial report was for a new software suite. I will be getting more solid information in the next few weeks, so please be patient.
A reader noticed that the hot shoe on the Leica S2 appears to be a Nikon pin-out configuration – Leica’s usual M-TTL hot-shoe has longer contacts towards the back of the body.
Here is a comparison (Leica S2 vs Nikon D700):
Update (11/23/08): here are some more test photos taken with the new AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G lens.
A reader sent me some test shots from a Nikon event taken with the new AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G lens. Please note that this lens may not be the final production version (all pictures taken with D700 at f/1.4, ISO 200):
I also have few raw files which I will upload later on – I am still not sure what is the best way to deal with large files in WordPress – the file limit for upload is 2MB. Any external host that will take 10MB NEF file?
Thanks L.
Update:
Here is some more info on this topic. Here are the raw photos taken with this lens.
