New Nikon Kit

[RobDickinson]

Dont hold your breath for 50 year celebrations of the F mount!

2 lens's, a complex 7 ED element/21 element 70-200 VRII, and a rework of the 18-200.

A D300s, 720/24 video and SD card slot

And a D3000 with 11 AF points and a dozzen my owner is stupid modes. 10.2mp.

[Simpo Two]

50th anniversary was June this year according to Nikon: http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2009/0303_f-mount5...

Are you saying the new lenses are not F-mount?

[RobDickinson]

I'm saying this year, the 50th anniversary of the f mount, they have launched a whopping 4 (fmount) lens's, 3 being DX. Not so flash and not what a lot of nikon users were wanting I suspect.

35/1.8 DX
10-24 DX
70-200 II
18-200 II DX.

[Simpo Two]

Ah, I see - Nikon is launching new products and you don't think much of them.

[jon-]

I'm happy the D300s has been announced, hopefully the D300 prices will drop and I'll be able to pick one up on the cheap

I wonder what canon will react with. They really need a 7d or to pull off something special with the 60d to claw back something in the body space.

And Canon if you're reading, by 60d i do NOT MEAN A 50D WITH fkING VIDEO

[Ledaig]

It will be interesting to see how the 70-200 VRII stacks up on an FX body to see if they have physically opened it up a little...

[Nero601]

well nikon you have just spoiled one of your nicest camera's by adding sodding video to it , well done


and as for the Dslr for dummies the D3000 well words fail me

[Simpo Two]

Well the D300s is real - just appeared in my inbox: www.europe-nikon.com/product/en_GB/products/broad/...

[Furyous]

Email from Warex today announcing both 300s and 3000.

No sign of the 80-400 afs Im waiting for.

[DanH]

Furyous said:

Email from Warex today announcing both 300s and 3000.

No sign of the 80-400 afs Im waiting for.

Gonna be 120-450 if you believe this road map that is seeming pretty accurate right now:

http://nikonrumors.com/2009/07/08/nikon-roadmap-le...

Probably a lens I'll pick up assuming its mid level in cost.

[RobDickinson]

Something that sliped by me initialy, the D300s has dual memory card slots (1cf/1sd) very usefull.

[andy-xr]

RobDickinson said:

Something that sliped by me initialy, the D300s has dual memory card slots (1cf/1sd) very usefull.

Which on the surface of it I thought was a bag of bks until someone pointed me at this: http://www.eye.fi/

Still not going to buy one though

[RobDickinson]

Nah its way usefull especialy for pro's

even then raw on one , jpg on the other, or vid on one, stills on the other etc

[bulb763]

andy-xr said:

RobDickinson said:

Something that sliped by me initialy, the D300s has dual memory card slots (1cf/1sd) very usefull.

Which on the surface of it I thought was a bag of bks until someone pointed me at this: http://www.eye.fi/

Still not going to buy one though

Why does no-one make this in CF format?! If these things work then they seem a much better solution than all the Nikon wifi hardware.

[andy-xr]

RobDickinson said:

Nah its way usefull especialy for pro's

even then raw on one , jpg on the other, or vid on one, stills on the other etc

Guess it depends what and how much you shoot then.

So, tempted to move over?