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Photokina, the world’s biggest photography trade fair, is here. Every two years both professional and amateur photographers the world over, eagerly await this event to see what their favourite brands will be announcing and showing. With Nikon recently introducing the D7000 and updates to the 35mm and 200mm primes, can there be anything left for [...]
WOW! These first sample videos are impressive! Today we woke up to the news of the latest in the Nikon DSLR line up, the D7000. And on paper, it is shaping up to be a very serious camera indeed. It’s was suggested to be a replacement for the D90 but with such a rich feature [...]
Busy time for new gear. After Nikons recent announcements, this morning Canon announced 4 new L series lenses as well as a new DSLR, the 60D. Lot’s of excitement around these new lenses, especially the new 400mm f2.8 which weighs 1.5kg LESS than the old version – very impressive! Also of note is the new [...]
Pre-orders are appearing! Quick heads up for anyone in the market for any of Nikons latest products, namely the 14mp D3100 DSLR which is also the first from the company to shoot 1080p video, or any of the new lenses including the 85mm 1.4 AFS and 24-120 f4 VR. If you want to get your [...]
Take an already legendary lens, add the latest version of VR and some Nano coating and what do you have…? A great lens made even better! albeit a ‘tiny’ bit bigger and heavier (oh, and of course more expensive). Nikon have released a handful of test images, some of which are below, but I’m not [...]
Well, it’s only been out for a brief period but Nikon have already upgraded the firmware for any owners of it’s new high ISO king. If you are lucky enough to own one of these then get yourself the latest firmware as it offers several improvements over the original firmware. A list of which and [...]
There here…well, pretty much! Nikon has announced it’s up coming additions to it’s lens line up in the shape of the new 24mm 1.4 AFS and 16-35 f4 VR – so catering to the needs of wide and semi-wide angle shooters out there. There are some sample images and product brochures available for your viewing [...]
Quick heads up for any D3, D3x, D700 or D300s shooters out there. Nikon have released new firmware updates for these bodies (v2.02 for the D3, v1.02 for the D700 and v1.01 for the D3x and D300s), offering improvements to Auto ISO implementation as well as support for larger capacity memory cards to name two things. Links [...]
