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Rounding out Nikon's announcements today are a total of five new lenses. Two are zooms: the AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED. Plus there are three updated supertelephotos, all of which gain Nikon's image stabilizing VR II: AF-S Nikkor 400mm f/2.8G ED VR, AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/4G ED VR and AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4G ED VR.
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ITS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!! :D :D :D
Venomator
23-08-2007, 06:43
ITS LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!! :D :D :D
Only if you've got that lot in your stockings m8 ... :suspect:
Oh dear though ... :eek: ... super dilemmas or what ... :shrug:
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That 14-24 is full frame too! :D
Venomator
23-08-2007, 06:51
That 14-24 is full frame too! :D
So ... :D ... matching pair with the D3 eh ... :suspect:
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Messiah Khan
23-08-2007, 08:28
All I want for christmas is....
a D3
AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4G ED VR
:thumbs:
All I want for christmas is....
a D3
AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4G ED VR
:thumbs:
That all? :D
chuckles
23-08-2007, 11:21
That all? :D
You must fancy the macro flash kit.... :thinking: I know it's not n e w but it is just dreamy!
Finally, Nikon have bridged the gap between 24 and 28 with a lens that also goes up to 70. Now a good path might be (for non full frame) 12-24 / 14-24 + 24-70 + 70-200. Horray!
Messiah Khan
23-08-2007, 11:42
You must fancy the macro flash kit.... :thinking: I know it's not n e w but it is just dreamy!
You mean the R1C1 kit? Well... I have considered it, but ive got another idea. Get a SB800 and use that as the commander unit for a R1 kit. That should be enough light to cook any insects I point my camera at. :thumbs::D
chuckles
23-08-2007, 11:46
You mean the R1C1 kit? Well... I have considered it, but ive got another idea. Get a SB800 and use that as the commander unit for a R1 kit. That should be enough light to cook any insects I point my camera at. :thumbs::D
Forgot you had one of those..... I still use my SB21 kit and the histogram..... works for me!
Just realised.... my Nikon compendium has become a history book :(
Messiah Khan
23-08-2007, 11:48
Finally, Nikon have bridged the gap between 24 and 28 with a lens that also goes up to 70. Now a good path might be (for non full frame) 12-24 / 14-24 + 24-70 + 70-200. Horray!
I just want a prime lens, every 10mm from 10mm up to 800mm (On full frame of course). Anything under 50mm should be f1.2 or f1.4, anything above I will let off with being f2.8.:D
Messiah Khan
23-08-2007, 11:50
Forgot you had one of those..... I still use my SB21 kit and the histogram..... works for me!
Just realised.... my Nikon compendium has become a history book :(
I havent got one.. yet. I still haven't got a decent flash gun. I only have the built in one on my D40X (Which I never use). I think its been fired a total of 3 times in all the time ive had it. Keep meaning to build some sort of snoot and diffuser for it.
I just want a prime lens, every 10mm from 10mm up to 800mm (On full frame of course). Anything under 50mm should be f1.2 or f1.4, anything above I will let off with being f2.8.:D
ROFL! Ideal huh!
EDIT: Oh man! The new 24-70 looks rubbish! (not spec, I mean its physical appearance) If only it looked like the 28-70... Now thats a nice looking lens!
http://www.europe-nikon.com/product/en_GB/products/broad/1431/overview.html
King_Boru
23-08-2007, 12:18
Mmmmm, 24-70 f/2.8 and a D3 would make my day.
Wonder if they are going to release a 300 f/4 G VR? That would be tastyliscious.
King_Boru
23-08-2007, 12:19
ROFL! Ideal huh!
EDIT: Oh man! The new 24-70 looks rubbish! (not spec, I mean its physical appearance) If only it looked like the 28-70... Now thats a nice looking lens!
http://www.europe-nikon.com/product/en_GB/products/broad/1431/overview.html
At the end of the day, its what comes out of the memory card that counts.
Oh I agree, Whole heartedly... Just a shame if that sort of thing matters to the individual :)
More to the point, I still plan on getting one of those now!.... And a D300... And a MB-D10..... and a 12-24mm...... an... oh sod it, I can't afford it! :'(
King_Boru
23-08-2007, 12:29
Oh I agree, Whole heartedly... Just a shame if that sort of thing matters to the individual :)
More to the point, I still plan on getting one of those now!.... And a D300... And a MB-D10..... and a 12-24mm...... an... oh sod it, I can't afford it! :'(
Hopefully the christmas bonus will be sufficient enough to pay the D300 and then hopefully the few weddings coming up produce the profits to put aside for the 24-70. One word then, sorted, atleast until I get me mits on a D3.
Damn you and your almost certain income! ;):D
Messiah Khan
23-08-2007, 12:37
Damn you and your almost certain income! ;):D
My income is certain... certain to be rubbish.:(
King_Boru
23-08-2007, 12:55
My income is certain... certain to be rubbish.:(
Aye, but the ol' freelance work makes up the difference, that it is ofcourse, until the tax man gets HIS mits on it.
King.
Came across this on another forum. Bjørn Rørslett reviews the new 24-70/2.8.
http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_zoom_02.html#AFS24-70FX
He's normally a hard chap to please, e.g. he doesn't like the 28/1.4 or 105 VR that others rave over, but he seems to like this one. The 28-70/2.8 has long been recognised as among the best ever made by Nikon. I'm happy to report that the new 24-70 takes this quality even further. It has a very modest amount of field curvature at 24mm and virtually none at 70 mm, so you can apporach your subject without fear of the corners going unsharp. Light fall-off can probably be measured in a research lab but is undetectable within the frame of a DX camera, more or less the same behaviour is seen on the D3 but this statement is only tentative until I get my D3 later.
Very sharp images result on-axis at 24 mm even at f/2.8 and the contrast was good all over the frame with corners ever so slightly softer. At f/4 the entire frame at 24 mm appears sharp and crisply defined with excellent contrast and colour saturation. Stopping down further changed little of these traits until you got near f/16, where lowering of contrast and the onset of loss of detail commenced to be more visible. Still, I would not hesitate shooting at f/16 even on the wide end of the range.
For the long end, f/2.8 delivered sharp images across the entire frame and this improved further at f/4. Absolutely state of the art optical performance and the enhanced acuity and better micro-contrast compared to the identical capture with the 28-70 were plainly visible. Image quality held up well to beyond f/16, even f/22 looked very acceptable, a most unusual finding. <snip>
I'll run tests on this lens on a D3 later to confirm these findings, but as of now, the new 24-70/2.8 Nikkor is the reference for all other midrange zoom lenses.
So, the perfect partner for a D3 then, and an elegant way to round the price out to a neat £5000 for those who have that sort of money.
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