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Reviews and Announcements: D300s, D3000, Nikkor 70-200mm, 18-200mm

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Some of the rumors were true. Here’s a round-up of the announcements:

Overviews: Endaget, dpReview, etc.

Bodies

Nikon D3000

Nikon D3000

Official Nikon D3000 site

dpReview D3000 specs

dpReview D3000 quicky hands-on

Nikon D300

Nikon D300

Official Nikon D300 site

dpReview D300s specs

dpReview D300s quicky hands-on

Lenses

New Nikkor 18-200mm

New Nikkor 18-200mm

Official Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II site

dpReview 18-200mm specs

New Nikkor 70-200mm with VR II

New Nikkor 70-200mm with VR II

Official Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II site

dpReview 70-200mm specs

Nikon Euro Posts D300 Firmware Update – to 1.1

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Presumably, the USA versions will follow. What’s the difference between the Euro versions and the USA, etc, versions? I’m guessing that the only actual difference is in the text translations (”localization”).

So if you learned French (or if you’re a native speaker) or you prefer “whilst” to “while”, then here’s your Windows and here’s your Mac link.

What’s changed? Highlights include:

  • The range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings > ISO sensitivity auto control > Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250 – 1 s to 1/4000 – 1 s.
  • A Copyright information item has been added to the setup menu.  When Copyright information is enabled, the copyright symbol (©) is shown in the shooting info display.
  • Focus acquisition performance in dynamic-area AF mode has been improved.
  • Focus acquisition performance with contrast-detect AF has been improved.
  • Auto white balance performance has been improved.
  • An issue that caused an increase in noise with shooting in [M] exposure mode at a shutter speed setting of bulb with the shutter held open for less than 8 seconds and Long exp. NR enabled has been resolved.
  • An issue that prevented shutter release at the specified shutter speed when no operations were performed for 30 seconds in mirror up mode has been resolved.
  • An issue that caused abnormal image display when  Image review was set to On and the playback zoom in button was pressed immediately after shooting at the following settings has been resolved.
  • Image quality:  NEF (RAW ) + JPEG
  • NEF (RAW) recording:  Lossless compressed or Compressed
  • Image size: S or M