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Voigtlander announces the ultra-bright Nokton 50mm f/1.0 and Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 lenses for Nikon Z

Jan 18, 2023 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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Cosina has announced two new lenses for the Nikon Z mount mirrorless system. One is an extremely impressive-sounding Voigtlander NOKTON 50mm f/1.0 Aspherical full-frame lens. A standard field of view with an ultra-wide and bright aperture that’s anything but standard. The other is the Voigtlander SUPER WIDE-HELIAR 15mm f/4.5 Aspherical lens, which is also full frame, offering an extremely wide field of view.

The lenses aren’t entirely new. The Nokton 50mm f/1.0 is already available in Leica M mount. The Super Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 is also available for Sony E mount. But the addition of another mount expands the possibilities for Nikon Z mount shooters – even if they are both manual focus lenses.

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Nikon Japan announces increased pricing for several products and “open pricing” for most lenses

Jan 16, 2023 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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This is a bit of an odd announcement. Well, partially odd. Nikon Japan has introduced new price revisions for a number of accessories with “open pricing” for the majority of Nikon Nikkor lenses. The announcement comes with Nikon saying pretty much what everybody has been saying since the start of the pandemic. It’s a result of the ongoing global silicon shortage and the increased costs of raw materials.

The list of products for which prices are going up seems to be limited to a handful of accessories and a couple of Coolshot laser rangefinders. But what’s particularly interesting and a little bit unusual is the second list. It contains a very large list of Nikon Nikkor lenses for both the company’s Z mount mirrorless and F mount DSLR camera systems. These lenses are shifting over to an “open pricing” system, letting retailers put whatever price on them they want. But can’t they already do that?

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Nikon announces development of 85mm f/1.2 S and 26mm f/2.8 pancake lenses for Z mount

Jan 5, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Nikon has announced the development of two new Nikkor Z mount lenses. There’s a fast Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.2 S mid-telephoto portrait lens and a 26mm f/2.8 pancake lens. Both lenses are designed for full-frame Nikon mirrorless cameras but they will, of course, work on APS-C bodies, too, with a narrower field of view. Beyond the focal length and apertures, not much else has been said about the new lenses yet.

We don’t know when they’re going to be released nor how much they’ll cost, although there are a few things we can pick up from the images. Things like the fact that the 85mm f/1.2 will take an 82mm screw-on filter and it doesn’t look like the 26mm f/2.8 takes filters at all.

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Sigma product announcement scheduled for Jan 12th – First Sigma Z mount lens on the way?

Jan 5, 2023 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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Sigma Global has announced a new Sigma Stage online event for January 12th at 9pm JST. That means noon for the UK, 7am Eastern or 4am Pacific. As per usual, Sigma hasn’t given any hints as to what might be coming, simply saying “New Products Presentation” – suggesting we might see more than one thing – but recent rumours suggest we might be seeing the new Sigma 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports lens.

The DG DN designation means it’ll be a full-frame lens designed specifically for mirrorless cameras. But what’s particularly special about this lens – other than being an update to the past popular DSLR lens – is that it looks set to be Sigma’s first lens for Nikon Z mount cameras. If it turns out to be true, then “new products” might be many of their existing DG DN lenses also being announced for Z Mount.

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Nikon patents “sensor and camera” – is it that weird square 4K 1,000FPS BSI CMOS from 2021?

Jan 5, 2023 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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Nikon has been granted a new patent entitled “Image Sensor and Electronic Camera”. It was accepted at the end of December but filed back in April 2021. The filing may be related to that strange 4K 17.8-megapixel 1,000FPS CMOS sensor announced back in February 2021, although YM Cinema reports that it’s not explicitly mentioned in the patent. In fact, the patent doesn’t seem to give that much away at all.

While Nikon appears to have patented the design, Nikon doesn’t actually make sensors. They make equipment for making sensors but not the sensors themselves. Most Nikon DSLR and mirrorless cameras over the years have contained sensors designed by Nikon but manufactured by other companies, such as Sony, Toshiba and TowerJazz. I wouldn’t expect that to change now.

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Holiday Gift Guide – The best and strangest new lenses of 2022

Dec 13, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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It’s December again, which means lots of us are sitting there wondering what to buy for ourselves or the photographer in our lives this holiday season. We’ve been saving up all year to get that something special, but we don’t want to deal with in-store queues – or maybe we’ve just slacked on our Christmas shopping this year. We want to stay at home where it’s nice and warm and see what we can find online that gets delivered straight to our door!

So, this means it’s time for the 2022 DIYP Holiday Gift Guides. It’s Day 2 today, so that means lenses. These are some of our favourite lenses that have been released over the last year. Keep visiting back this week as we release our other guides, including cameras, lighting, tripods, sliders & gimbals, and accessories and gadgets.

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Holiday Gift Guide – The best new cameras of 2022

Dec 12, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment
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It’s December again, which means lots of us are sitting there wondering what to buy for ourselves or the photographer in our lives this holiday season. We’ve been saving up all year to get that something special, but we don’t want to deal with in-store queues – or maybe we’ve just slacked on our Christmas shopping this year. We want to stay at home where it’s nice and warm and see what we can find online that gets delivered straight to our door!

So, this means it’s time for the 2022 DIYP Holiday Gift Guides, and we’re kicking things off with cameras. These are some of our favourite cameras that have been released over the last year. Keep visiting back this week as we release our other guides, including lenses, lighting, tripods, sliders & gimbals, and accessories and gadgets.

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Sigma to release its first Nikon Z mount lens, the 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 Sports in 2023

Dec 8, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Well, this certainly has taken a while but it looks like Sigma’s getting ready to release their first Z mount autofocus lens in 2023. And it’s not just a Z mount version of an existing lens – although, I expect those will come in time – but a new lens announcement. According to reports, Sigma will be announcing a 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG DN OS Sports lens in 2023 – a mirrorless refresh of the Sigma 60-600mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports for DSLRs.

So far, the rumours say that it will be coming in Nikon Z and Sony E mounts, with no mention of anything else. But given that Sigma’s in the L mount alliance and has two L mount mirrorless cameras of their own – the Sigma fp and fp L – I can’t imagine they won’t release it in L mount flavour, too.

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Nikon suspends sales of Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S due to orders that “exceed our expectations”

Dec 2, 2022 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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I don’t know how long camera manufacturers will continue to think that we believe their “we didn’t know it was going to be so popular!” excuse. Of course, they knew it was going to be popular. because its predecessor was also extremely popular. Still, Nikon has posted an announcement stating that demand “exceeds our expectations”, so they’ve suspended sales of the new Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S lens.

All I hear when companies claim they “didn’t anticipate the demand” is Homer Simpson saying, “It’s my first day“. Fortunately, some sellers still have them in stock for now. But once they sell out, it might be a while before they get more. It’s not even a new lens, either. It was announced last October. Here’s what Nikon has to say…

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Nikon goes back to the classics with an all-black Nikon Z fc and new 40mm F2 SE lens to match

Nov 9, 2022 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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Adding to the standard look and the six existing “premium” colours, Nikon has added an all-black camera to the Nikon Z fc lineup that’s giving me serious Nikkormat FT3 vibes! Specs-wise, it’s no different to the regular Nikon Z fc, which means it still doesn’t have a port for a remote trigger, but the new all-black look does look very cool and is perhaps even more accurate to the “retro” feel of old Nikons.

Along with the new all-black Z fc, Nikon has announced a new Special Edition 40mm f/2 SE lens which offers a similar retro feel with an old-school knobbly focus wheel and even a knurled area to simulate an aperture ring (even if it doesn’t actually spin) as well as a control ring. It fits in very well with the look of the Nikkor Z 28mm f/2.8 SE released last year. Internally, it’s essentially the same as the standard 40mm f/2, but it’s very different on the outside.

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