The originally announced price of the Nikon D600 in the UK was insanely high. Today Amazon UK started selling the D600 for £1,613. That’s over £300 less than the original £1,974.44 (around $3,200) for body only (the D600 kit currently sells for £2,204.76, down from £2,467.26):
The price of of the Nikon D600 also went down EUR 150 in Germany:
The D600 price on Amazon Germany is currently EUR 1,999:
Zeiss announced a new high-end DSLR lens product line specially designed for high resolution, full frame DSLR cameras (with resolution more than 30MP, like the Nikon D800, D800E).
Lensbaby announced a new selective focus lens called Spark ($79.95).
DxOMark tested the Nikon D600 and gave it an overall score of 94:
“Nikon’s recently released consumer-oriented full-frame sensor DSLR, the D600, has just gone through DxOMark’s image quality evaluation tests. And the verdict is in: with a DxOMark Overall Score of 94, the D600 is an affordable camera that places a high premium on image quality, as it ranks just behind the top performing Nikon D800 and Nikon D800E. It is also a significant improvement over the high-end professional flagship DSLRs, the Nikon D3X and the Nikon D4.”
The list of the top 10 rated cameras currently looks like this:
Few other interesting comparisons – Nikon D600 vs. D800 vs. D700 DxOMark performance:
The Nikon D600 is currently shipping in many countries around the world. The camera seems to be very weel stocked and I don’t think there will be any delays when filling existing pre-orders.
Nikon D600 vs. D700 ISO comparison:
Just a quick update with few images and videos of the Nikon booth from the first day of Photokina:
There were several presentations at the Nikon booth. The first was the keynote delivered by Adobe evangelist Jason Levine.
The other presentation, which drew an enormous crowd was delivered by Sandro Miller, accompanied by Tony Ardent. Mr. Miller is the photographer and film maker who produced the short film “Joy Ride”, which launched the Nikon D800.
Nikon D600 is currently in stock at Amazon US and Amazon Germany. Amazon UK expects it on September 21.
Update: Nikon D600 is also in stock at BestBuy.
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