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Good news for owners of AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED: Fotodiox Pro Filter Adapter (145mm)

According the manufacturers’ website, this adapter is made with high standard, specifically for the Nikon AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lens to utilize UV, Circular Polarizing, ND4 and ND8 filters while providing increased protection to the front lens element. The filter Kit includes three parts assembled to enable a 145mm x 1mm thread. It is beautifully …

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Understanding manual focus lenses from Nikon

Have you ever been in confusion with the terminology used to describe the old type of lenses that are with manual focus? If you are like me you would be very excited to see how great many of these old gems are performing on the ultimate DSLR’s from Nikon. This glass is so good that …

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A new AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G lens announced today!

Despite the bad effects of the earthquake in Japan, life goes on and today we have got a very good news from Nikon. Maybe not important for professional photographers but of great value for the millions of amateurs and photo enthusiast, a new lightweight, inexpensive and capable sweet prime for macro photography in DX lineup …

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50mm f/1.8 AF-S G already announced and available for pre-order

TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G, a fast, normal 50mm fixed focal length (prime) lens with a maximum aperture of f/1.8 that is compatible with Nikon FX-format digital-SLR cameras.
The AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G offers the pleasing blur characteristics and three-dimensional rendering capabilities possible only with …

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What a surprise: AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8 G

Surprisingly, without any press release, on the Nikon.com website it is presented a very nice surprise, a little prime AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 G. This is a very nice addition for people like me who loves primes, small size factor and hopefully fast AF. Look at the key features and specifications I copied from …

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Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 VRII: First Impressions and Reviews

In last twelve months Nikon started his highly expected f4 zoom line. First the very well received Nikkor 16-35mm f4 AF-S VRII and recently the Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 VRII. Because of its cost, generous focal range and constant aperture, this zoom is of a high interest for many Nikon users. Because of this I think …

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Is Nikon moving into the right direction? Musings after Photokina

Photokina is the event that concentrated for a while the attention of gear loving people across the world and for all Nikon users it launched several new products of interest. The question is if Nikon is moving its line of products into a proper direction or not?
Of course it depends from which perspective you are …

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AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR anounced today!

DX users were not forget today! A new zoom with an impressive ratio, including special coatings and VR was announced, targeting the newcomers in DSLR area, as a complement for the kit lens 18-55mm VR.
Let’s see the original announcement from Nikon:

As a super-telephoto lens covering the 55mm to 300mm range of focal lengths, the AF-S …

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AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4G, 24-120mm f/4G ED VR and 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR – three new FX lenses anounced today!

Yes, Nikon is going to provide new very capable lenses for its DSLR users! Today were announced two completely new FX zooms: AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR and AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR and a re-worked fixed lens, AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4G. First zoom was expected with high anticipation, coming as a …

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Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VRII Sales Temporarily Suspended by Amazon

A very strange note on Amazon.com on the page of the superzoom Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VRII:
While this item is available from other marketplace sellers on this page, it is not currently offered by Amazon.com because customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping …

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Thom Hogan claims that AF-S 85mm f1.4G VR is coming very soon!

This is really a hot information that brings excitement to all Nikon fans around the world! Commenting the results of a survey about Nikon lenses, Thom Hogan claims that AF-S 85mm f1.4G VR is coming very soon. He literally says: “that’s coming very, very soon now”.  Please see the originally context and commentary on Thom’s website.
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Nikon 24mm f1.4 approached by Moose Peterson

Are you interested to get the new gem from Nikon, the dream prime 24mm f1.4 AF-S? Are you looking for reviews about this lens? Would you like to know first the opinion of Moose Peterson?
Sometime a picture is worth a thousand words… other times a video clip is worth a thousand pictures… This is the …

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Quo Vadis Nikon? Trends and predictions in Nikkor lineup

It is well known that all Nikon enthusiasts are very interested by the new lenses that are launched from time to time, many people daring to make predictions, other preffering to feed various rumors on this matter. Based on the recent activity of Nikon in 2008-2009 I think we can distinguish some directions from it’s …

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