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Wrap up of today’s rumors
Very busy day today. This is what happened in a nutshell (thanks to all readers that emailed us):
- I am still getting reports that there was a Nikon press conference in France on Sept 3rd. Anyone?
- “Nikon UK is pleased to announce the versatile Zoom-Nikkor AF-S DX VRIII IF-ED 18-165mm f/3.5-8G” – what is this all about? VRIII?
- Nikon D800 is being actively discussed all over the place. Most of the info is old.
- A rumor came from Germany that the next D3s will be called D4 (the Germans are always right). Could this be the reason why the French web site changed their pre-order from D3x to D4? I cannot confirm anything yet (no reliable sources). If you remember Thom Hogan also predicted that the next D3 will not be called D3x.
- PhaseOne is offering an incredible deal (in terms of value, not in terms of price):
http://www.phaseone.com/Global/Newsletters/eblastp45+bundleUK.aspx
Is this their reaction to Otoji – trying to get some last moment market share?
- Nikon D90 (kit) should start shipping next week. Get yours here.
- B&H is buying Google ads for Nikon D4 (link). I think this is standard practice of the big retailers – we reported something similar here. You can search for D800, D900 and any other weird future model and you will still get Amazon or somebody else buying those ads. Still, a thought-provoking development.
- Interesting observation from a reader (thanks SN):
“When I saw your latest heads-up on the 85, 50 & 70-200, I googled on
“nikon AF-S 50mm 1.4 G”The TOP link came back from Nikon USA as a php template page not
found. http://www.nikonusa.com/template.phpThings that make you go hmmmmm…
Never saw that one before on a lens or camera link from Nikon (or
anyone else)… never saw that on google before for anything, for
that matter. That’s their flavor of ‘dead letter office’ parking page
that you get from webs that provide them when one directly enters a
bad URL on a website…May be that Nikon had a trial page up, but the Google link that got
established by their bots now hits a dead end.Or not.“
Posted in Nikon D3x, Nikon D4, Nikon D800, Nikon Humor Rumor, Nikon Lenses Tagged Nikon Digital Rangefinder, Nikon Modular Camera 17 Comments
Nikon D4 available for pre-order in France
We’ve seen weird posts from this site before. Now they have another one – Nikon D4:
Here is the link. Apparently this is a well known photo equipment site in France (please correct me if I am wrong). True or fiction or maybe they are just desperate for traffic?
Posted in Nikon D3x, Nikon D4 28 Comments
3 new Nikon lenses confirmed for Photokina
Today I got a confirmation on at least 3 lenses (released at Photokina):
- AF-S 50mm 1.4 G – replacement is coming (confirmed)
- AF-S 85mm 1.4 G – replacement is coming (confirmed)
- AF-S 70-200mm 2,8 VRII – replacement is coming (confirmed)
No confirmations yet on the AF-S 28mm 2.8 and on the AF-S 80-400mm 4.5-5.6 (this may change in the next few weeks).
Don’t ask about the source – can’t say anything else for now. I have sufficient information to believe that this info is legit and this is why I am posting it. My confidence about this rumor is 85% – it is only from a single source (in the past we had 99% confidence). The lenses will probably be N & ED but not VR. Remember, we are talking about rumors here – if you have a weak stomach, wait for the official release.
Posted in Nikon Lenses 112 Comments
Nikon Japan site will be down tomorrow
Nikon Japan site will be down tomorrow, September 3rd from 14:00 to 16:00. Don’t know why. Could be a regular maintenance. The last time all Nikon sites world wide were down was right before they announced the Nikon D90 (they had to bring the sites down in order to update the product line).
Just to remind our readers that tomorrow is September 3rd – see this post.
Posted in Other Nikon stuff 15 Comments
Is Nikon aiming to drop Mac support?
I know that this will never happened, but I sense a definitive favoritism towards Microsoft.
Recently NR reported on Page2 about the patent exchange agreement between Microsoft and Nikon.
Remember the P6000? There was a lot of pre-release excitement about this camera, but it seems that the RAW files generated by the P6000 will be compatible only with Microsoft Windows. Read here for more details on this story (thanks for the link MR).
fyi – I am a Mac user.
Nikon D3 Firmware v. 2.00 now available?
Just go to http://support.nikontech.com and make a search for digital DSLR and D3. The release date is Sept 2 (today) – wasn’t this version released few months ago? Did they add/change something?
Modifications enabled with upgrade of A and B firmware to v.2.00
- Images captured with “Rotate tall”, in the playback menu, set to”On”, are not automatically rotated for display immediately aftercapture (image review).
- The following changes and additions have been made to “f4: AssignFUNC.Button > FUNC. Button + dials” ; “f5: Assign preview button> Preview + command dials”, and “f6: Assign AE-L / AF-L button >AE-L / AF-L + command dials” menus in Custom Settings:
- The “Choose image area” option has been separated into two options,”Choose image area (FX / DX / 5:4)” and “Choose image area (FX / DX)”
- A new “Shooting menu bank” option has been added.
- When “Choose image area (FX / DX / 5:4)” or “Choose image area(FX/DX)” is selected and the function button (Fn) is pressed, the imagearea setting is displayed in the top control panel, in the shootinginformation display, and at the bottom of the viewfinder.
- A “Copyright information” item has been added to the setup menu.When “Copyright information” is enabled, the copyright symbol ( © ) isshown in the shooting info display.
- “Recent settings” can now be displayed in place of “My Menu”.
- The virtual horizon can now be displayed with shooting in LiveView mode.
- The “Vignette control” setting can now be confimed in shooting information.
- The “Vignette control” item in the shooting menu now supports all types of G- and D-type lenses, except DX and PC lenses.
- The “Vignette control” compensation value has been optimized for shooting with “Active D-Lighting” the shooting menu.
- Electronic analog exposure displays are now shown in the controlpanel and shooting info display while the exposure compensation settingis being applied.
- The degree of the “High ISO NR” setting can now be confirmed in theshooting info display while the “High ISO NR” setting item, in theshooting menu, is being applied.
- Design of the FX-format icon in the “Choose image area” setting has been modified.
- Ankara, Riyadh, Kuwait, and Manamah have been added to the “Time zone” options for the “World Time” item in the setup menu.
- When a GPS device is used and no heading information is available,–.–° is now displayed for the “Position > Heading” option in the”GPS” item in the setup menu.
- When shooting in LiveView mode using Camera Control Pro 2 (ver.2.2.0) or later with a PC-E lens, the aperture setting can now beadjusted from the computer.
- Autofocus performance has been improved.
- Auto White Balance performance has been improved.
- An issue that, in some rare circumstances, caused the batteryindicator to blink, regardless of actual battery charge, has beenresolved.
- Errors in the German help displays have been corrected.
Posted in Nikon D3x 8 Comments
