The price of the new Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens is now officially announced: $1,599/£1,500/€1,499. Pre-orders are now open at:
The price of the Nikon 105mm f/1.4E ED lens is $2,196.95.
Additional information on the latest Sigma lens can be found here, sample photos are available here:
Sigma announces the development of 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art and 70mm f/2.8 DG MACRO Art lenses
Press release:
The Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lens for Nikon F-mount is now available for pre-order at B&H. I believe this is an old lens (announced in Japan in 2016?) and I am not sure why it just got listed for pre-order as a “new release”. Maybe this is a new version? Shipping is expected to start on May 30th:
The same lens is listed at Adorama for $100 more.
Update: B&H confirmed to me that this indeed is a new version of the lens. Her is a picture of the old version – as you can see the zoom grip is different:
The Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD is described as the world’s lightest and smallest 15x zoom lens. Additional information:
Nikon released firmware update version 1.30 for the Nikon D5 DSLR camera (I reported about it yesterday on social media: Facebook, Twitter and Google+). The new firmware can be downloaded from Nikon’s website. Here is the changelog:
Last week B&H started shipping a new batch of the Nikon ES-2 film digitizing adapter set to existing pre-orders placed in November last year (the backlog is still pretty big).
The first Nikon ES-2 reviews are already available online:
Here are is a quick feedback on the Nikon ES-2 from a reader (thanks Jürgen Schneidenbach):
The new Venus Optics Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro lens for Nikon F-mount is available for pre-order at the official Laowa website and at B&H (pre-orders from the website usually ship faster). The official release is expected at the end of the month.
Additional information on the Venus Optics Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro lens including sample photos, technical specifications, MTF charts and more can be found at PhotoRumors.com:
Yesterday Nikon released SnapBridge version 2.0.5 (Apple app store | Google Play). Here is what’s new:
Nikon mirrorless camera concept © by Broxibear
I am continuing to update my list of rumored/expected details for the new Nikon mirrorless camera. Here is the new info:
