Category: Nikon accessories & lenses

  • Field tests for the Nikon 180-400mm f/4 TC 1.4

    Field tests for the Nikon 180-400mm f/4 TC 1.4

    If you consider buying an expensive lens like the $12,000 Nikon 180-400mm f/4 TC 1.4, you will find useful to read actual field tests (and not only the usual read-the-specs reviews that most web sites will provide). So, I found to welcome field tests that I’d like to recommend: Petapixel’s A Field Test of the…

  • Nikon 800mm f/5.6 E FL ED VR: new, big, black

    Nikon 800mm f/5.6 E FL ED VR: new, big, black

    Nikon has decided to start renewing some of its sports- or wildlife-oriented long lenses this year (and probably in 2014 too). Starting in January 2013, they offer a monster of a lens, the Nikkor 800mm f/5.6 E FL ED VR. It’s a monster of price (18,000 USD list price, but slightly better at B&H or…

  • Sigma (upcoming) 120-300mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM

    Sigma (upcoming) 120-300mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM

    It’s hard to be sure of the details on this new lens from Sigma, since they announced that there is a delay (it will not be available this month – in March 2013). The only useful thing I would like to point to the significant items in the spec list: Dust-proof and splash-proof construction High…

  • Nikon drops mirrors

    Nikon drops mirrors

    As was expected by many people, Nikon annoucned a new photo camera system based upon a mirrorless architecture, a small sensor and a new lens system. Press Release MELVILLE, N.Y. (Sept 21, 2011) – Nikon Inc. today announced a revolutionary new digital imaging system built from the ground up to empower users with new ways to…

  • Nikkor promotional video

    Nikkor promotional video

    No information, but the pleasure of watching Nikon promoting the line of its 60 million Nikkor lenses. YouTube link

  • Best Nikon SLR lenses for wildlife photo

    Best Nikon SLR lenses for wildlife photo

    Nikon: The biggest digital camera seller in the world (mostly because of its sales of compact photo cameras), an internationally famous reference for the quality of its lens and it SLR cameras. Wildlife photographers (professionals as well as amateurs) must take this offering very seriously. But the fame did not come from nothing, and the…

  • Nikon works on a replacement for the 80-400mm/4.5-5.6

    Nikon works on a replacement for the 80-400mm/4.5-5.6

    The Nikon users will want to see some improvements on the (already) old 80-400mm/4.5-5.6 telephoto zoom will probably be satisfied soon. Nikon recently issued two patents (1 & 2) for a zoom in this category. It does not tell us when it will be available, but according to the yellow brand habits, the end of…

  • Lens reviews, now with Pentax forums

    Lens reviews, now with Pentax forums

    One of the very first resources I created for YLovePhoto is the list of web sites providing lens reviews or comparisons. There, I make sure that there is one location where we can go to find all lens reviews available on the web. Today, I updated it with a major addition. Pentax Forums just made…

  • Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4

    Faithful to its age-old fame, Carl Zeiss shows us a new wide-angle lens aiming at the high-end of the market, at least because of the “widigantic” aperture of f/1.4. Available in Canon and Nikon mounts at 1385€, from the first quarter of 2011.