Photographing Japanese food with a Nikon D750 by Vincent from cecj2.com:
I’m Vincent from Paris, France and I created the website cecj2.com in 2008 about Japanese restaurants. As a semi-professional food blogger, I have read many books and articles on how to take food pictures. A tripod, a long distance lens (85mm at least) and a light diffuser were used, but none of these are possible when you are in a fancy Japanese restaurant in Tokyo or in a dive bar.
Nikon registered a new Coolpix A1000 camera with bluetooth.com. The new model will have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This could either be the long-rumored P900 replacement or a Coolpix A300 replacement.
Update: the upcoming A1000 will be a replacement for the current Nikon Coolpix A900 camera. I completely forgot about this model:
The new version (BG-N19-2) of the Vello battery grip for Nikon D850 is now in stock. The old version is currently $20 off.
Update – the B&H listing shows that the speed of the new model is 9 fps where the old version supports only 7 fps:
I could not find any difference in the specs, but the design is definitely changed – here are a few pictures for comparison:
Today Nikon released a minor firmware update that has to do with the time zone settings for almost all of their current cameras:
The following change was introduced in the above firmware updates: “The SETUP MENU > Time zone and date > Time zone display now shows only the names of major cities in the currently selected zone.”
For a limited the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED lens is $359.96 off or 20% off at Amazon only (shipped and sold by Amazon).
Update – the lens is now sold out and is expected to be in stock again on June 11 (the price is still 1,439.99).
B&H and Adorama still list the lens at the full MSRP of $1,796.95. This is a good price considering that the new Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8E ED VR lens is $2,396.95. Best Buy has matched the price of the lens.
In the past Amazon has randomly reduced selected Nikon prices for a day or two.
New – Ebay is offering a 20% off everything with coupon code PICKDADSGIFT:
Ebay is running another 10% off coupon from now until 6/10:
Nikon has announced one camera (D850) and two lenses (70-300mm and 180-400mm) in the past 12 months. The only good news here is that they currently have five registered and not-yet-announced cameras – more than any other brand. Here is an updated recap of what to expect next from Nikon:
The Nikon selfie stick and the Nikon mini table-top tripod are something I did not know existed and they are both currently on sale at BuyDig:
Thanks for the heads up Robert!
Update: I reported about the Nikon selfie stick back in 2015.
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