Irix 11mm f/4 full frame lens for Nikon F-mount officially announced


Irix officially announced their 11mm f/4 full frame lens for Nikon F mount. Additional information, including press release, MTF charts, specifications and pictures can be found over at PhotoRumors.

Irix lenses can be purchased at Amazon US, Amazon UKAmazon DE and Amazon IT. In the next few weeks I will be getting some discount codes for all Irix products, so stay tuned.

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New low price: grey market Nikon D810 for $1,879



New grey market Nikon D810 DSLR cameras are now listed for $1,879 on eBay – a new low price.

This grey market D810 camera comes with a 1 year seller warranty. Last year Nikon allowed certain grey market products to be repaired by authorized third party repair centers.

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Refurbished Nikon gear


A new batch of refurbished Nikon products are now available for sale at Adorama and BuyDig:

Refurbished Nikon cameras

Refurbished Nikon prime lenses

Refurbished Nikon zoom lenses

More refurbished Nikon gear can be found at AmazonB&HeBay and Cameta Camera.

Refurbished Nikon gear comes with a 90 days warranty.

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Top 10 NikonRumors posts for February 2017

  
  

  
These are the top 10 most visited NikonRumors posts for February, 2017:

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First set of rumored Nikon D7300 camera specifications


Here is the first set of rumored specifications for the Nikon D7300 DSLR camera:

  • 20MP sensor (same sensor from the D500)
  • 4K video
  • 51 points AF
  • SnapBridge

I do not have an announcement date yet.

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New firmware updates for the Nikon D3400 and D5600 cameras released


Nikon released new firmware updates for the Nikon D3400 and D5600 cameras related to the latest version of SnapBridge (I mentioned this over the weekend):

Fixed an issue that resulted in unreliable connections between the camera and the iOS 10.2 version of the SnapBridge app.

Here are the download links:

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Additional information on the new Sigma Art lenses (14mm f/1.8, 135mm f/1.8, 24-70mm f/2.8 and 100-400mm f/5-6.3)


The pricing and pre-order options for the new Sigma Art lenses that were announced last week will be announced at the end of March, here are the links:

In addition to my coverage, Sigma has released the various performance tests/graphs on their global website. The 135mm f/1.8 looks absurdly sharp (according to Sigma, the diffraction MTF better represents real-life performance, even if almost everyone in the industry uses the geometric MTF, which tends to be sharper than reality):

Update: more sample photos from the 135mm f/1.8 from AP:

Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art Sample Image Gallery

Sigma 135mm f/1.8 AF speed test video:

The Sigma 14mm f/1.8 and 135mm f/1.8 ART lenses will also be available as cinema versions in the future (part of their new line of cinema lenses). Sigma also mentioned that they will be making cinema zoom lenses:

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