A new Sigma lens price increase is coming to Europe on January 1, 2017. Almost all lenses for all mounts (MFT, Sony, Nikon, Canon) will be impacted. The new prices will be between 9% and 28% higher – the list above shows some of the price increases (please note that these are dealer’s prices, you can check the actual retail prices on Amazon.de or Amazon.fr).
RRS will also have a 5-10% price increase on tripods and heads effective January 1st, 2017 (RRS are now sold at B&H).
Official Nikon deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday:
Third party lenses deals for Black Friday:
Black Friday deals by stores:
More deals after the brake:
2-layers sensor
Nikon has a new patent filed in Japan for a two-layers sensor with phase detection AF in one layer and contrast based AF in the other layer:
Nikon released new versions of Capture NX-D, ViewNX-i, Picture Control Utility 2, Camera Control Pro 2, NEF Codec and Snapbridge:
With the latest Nikon D810 and D500 price drops, the gray market prices are also going down:
These are the lowest prices I’ve seen online so far for the D810 (was also $1.999 before) and the D500 (was $1,499 before).
You can now repair gray market D810 cameras in the US (in authorized third party repair centers).
Update: gray market Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8E ED VR lens now sells for $1,649 (regular: $2,196.95)
Nikon Japan issued a statement that some Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8E ED VR lenses sold in Japan from September to October 29, 2016 are having “a problem with the appearance” and will be replaced with new ones. From the Google translation I am not really sure what exactly is the issue – does anyone have a better translation?
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