{"id":2392,"date":"2008-09-07T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masterchong.com\/mig\/nikon-reduced-d700-price-and-new-lens-expected\/"},"modified":"2013-10-05T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T08:57:10","slug":"nikon-reduced-d700-price-and-new-lens-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/nikon-reduced-d700-price-and-new-lens-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Reduced D700 Price and New Lens Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Intro\">\n<p align=\"justify\">Available in late July 2008 retailing at usd$2,999.95 the Nikon D700 is currently priced at usd$2898.95 after a usd$100 price reduction. The sudden price reduction may due to the upcoming full frame digital cameras from Sony and Canon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p align=\"justify\">Nikon is also expected to reveal their replacement for a number of lenses, mainly targeting the FX market. As of now, Nikon has introduced AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f\/2.8G ED and AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f\/2.8G ED on 23 August 2007 together with Nikon D3 in order to replace the AF-S NIKKOR 12-24mm f\/4 ED and AF-S NIKKOR 28-70mm f\/2.8 ED.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">New NIKKOR lenses expected are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f\/1.4G<\/li>\n<li>AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f\/1.4G<\/li>\n<li>AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f\/2.8 VRII<\/li>\n<li>AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f\/4-5.6 VRII<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">The release of AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f\/1.4G, AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f\/1.4G and AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f\/4-5.6 VRII enable D40, D40x and D60 users to autofocus while using them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-200mm f\/2.8G IF-ED was first introduced in 12 December 2002, an alternative to Nikon AF-D 80-200mm f\/2.8. Many Nikon users are awaiting a newer model built with the second generation of Nikon&#8217;s Vibration Reduction (VR) technology. Amazon is reported to have run out of stock of this lens for a while.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-260\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2835178545_57b962ca69_o.jpg?resize=719%2C464\" width=\"719\" height=\"464\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-200mm f\/2.8G IF-ED Out of Stock in Amazon<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>As long as it is not officially announced, the above mentioned lenses are still rumors. Photokina is only few days from now, stay close to Nikon&#8217;s announcement. If you are considering to invest in any of the above lenses, wait for a little while.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available in late July 2008 retailing at usd$2,999.95 the Nikon D700 is currently priced at usd$2898.95 after a usd$100 price reduction. The sudden price reduction may due to the upcoming full frame digital cameras from Sony and Canon. Nikon is also expected to reveal their replacement for a number of lenses, mainly targeting the FX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2383,6322,211,209],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nikon","tag-nikkor-lenses","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-d3","tag-nikon-d700"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/2627697382_901e486e5d_o.jpg?fit=600%2C555&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}