Most of Nikon rebates are now gone


The Nikon lens-only rebates and the free battery grip offer for the D500/D750/D810 are all gone now (they have been available since Black Friday). Here are the Nikon deals that are still going on:

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Honduras newspaper reports Nikon D760 rumors


El Heraldo is a major newspaper in Honduras and they want to deliver the first Nikon rumors in 2017: they claim that a new Nikon D760 camera will be announced in 2017 with a 24.3MP sensor and a shutter speed of 1/8000 (the D750 has a shutter speed of 1/4000). The pictured camera is a D800…

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Happy New Year + the best posts of 2016

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Happy New Year to all NikonRumors readers! Here are the top 10 most popular [NR] posts for 2016:

  1. New rumors: the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 lens to be replaced by the end of the year
  2. Nikon D500 DSLR DX camera officially announced
  3. New Nikon D5 reviews and ISO comparisons
  4. First Nikon D500 reviews and sample photos
  5. New Nikon AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED lens to be announced this week
  6. Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E zoom vs. the 500mm f/4E prime lens comparison
  7. Nikon DL cameras delayed “indefinitely”?
  8. Updated technical service advisory for the Nikon D750 released
  9. Nikon D500 specifications and features explained (confidential Nikon internal document)
  10. Nikon (NPS) stockpile at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

And the top 10 posts for December, 2016:

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Weekly Nikon news flash #399

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Firmware update version 1.1 for the Nikon Coolpix B700 camera ($446) released.

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→ The new Irix 11mm f/4 lens to start shipping in January 2017.

A guide on how to use the different Nikon KeyMission accessories.

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Costa Rica with the Nikon D500 camera and 80-400mm lens

Costa Rica with the Nikon D500 and 80-400mm (AF-S Nikkor 80-400 f/4.5-5.6G ED VR) by Rodney Larsen (flickr):

Background:

In November of 2016, during the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the US, I made a quick, three-day trip Costa Rica. As an amateur photographer, with a special interest in wildlife, the opportunity to see this part of Central America and experience the richness and diversity of nature there was as exhilarating as it was inspiring. With just a few days for travel, though, and a personal decree to do so with as little impediment as possible, deciding what equipment to bring along was a difficult questions to answer. While camera gear can be as unwieldy as it is heavy, it’s also true that a variety of lenses and accessories allow for different forms and levels of creativity. Choosing is not necessarily easy.

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Nikon AF modules reference table

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Nikon D500 advanced MultiCam 20k AF module

Slow news day. Here is a reference table of the AF modules used in Nikon DSLR cameras courtesy of radojuva.com:

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Nikon reports possible View NX-i image data corruption when using Nikon Transfer 2 on the latest versions of macOS Sierra

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Nikon Japan published a warning about a possible image data corruption in View NX-i when transferring images with Nikon Transfer 2 on macOS Sierra version 10.12.2. The latest ViewNX-i version 1.2.4 is compatible with macOS Sierra version 10.12 but it is not compatible with macOS Sierra version 10.12.1 or later and you should not use Nikon Transfer 2 until an update is released.

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