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Nikon recalls some SLR / mirrorless batteries for fire risk

Nikon's logo. Click here to visit the Nikon website!If you're shooting with the Nikon D800, D800E, or D7000 digital SLRs, or the Nikon 1 V1 compact system camera, you'll want to take a careful look at all of your EN-EL15 battery packs. These packs were included in the camera bundles, and =sold separately as Nikon model number 27011. In either instance, they're clearly identified as an EN-EL15 on the pack's label. Nikon has...

DxOMark offers verdict on Nikon D4, D800 (updated)

Nikon's D800 digital SLR. Photo provided by Nikon. Click for our Nikon D800 preview!Nikon's latest FX-format digital SLRs--the Nikon D4 and D800--both feature brand-new image sensors. We note with interest, then, that both models have recently completed DxO Labs' DxOMark sensor tests. DxO Labs is the company behind the Optics Pro image processing application, and they're rather uniquely-positioned to offer judgement on sensor performance.

We won't spoil the...

Nikon UK hikes D4, D800, D800E pricing, honors preorders

Nikon's D4 digital SLR. Photo provided by Nikon. Click for our Nikon D4 preview!If you're based in the UK and you've recently preordered the upcoming Nikon D4 or Nikon D800 / D800E DSLRs, count yourself lucky: Nikon UK has just announced a price hike for both models, but it's promised to honor preorder pricing on orders received before March 24th.

The story broke last Friday on Sterling Publishing's Pixiq website, and has been confirmed in a statement...

Nikon D800 test shots captured and posted!

Nikon's D800 digital SLR. Photo provided by Nikon Inc. Click to read our Nikon D800 preview!We received the 36.3-megapixel Nikon D800 and Luke immediately got to work shooting our Still Life target. Peering at the images, we were astonished to see enough detail to capture and clearly render the threads in our dreaded Red Leaf fabric, a feature of our standard Still Life target. Awesome.

Go to our Nikon D800 Samples page to see the Still Life target shots, both JPEGs...

Time for an upgrade? Get a foot in the door for the latest hot new cameras!

2012 is shaping up to be quite a year for photographers. We're only seven weeks in, and we've already had over eighty camera announcements, quite a few of them major. Over the coming days and weeks, many of these cameras will be becoming available. If you want to be among the first to be shooting with the most interesting models, though, you'll likely need to preorder.

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Nikon D800E Low-Pass Filter Revealed!

Nikon's D800 digital SLR. Click here to read our Nikon D800 preview!There's been quite a bit of speculation as to exactly what's going on with the low-pass filter in the new Nikon D800E, so we've updated our Nikon D800 preview with additional information about it. Here's a link directly to the section about the Nikon D800 low-pass filter, so you can read all about it.

(For those not already familiar, the Nikon D800E is a version of the new...

36-Megapixel Nikon D800 Announced! See our Hands-on Preview

Nikon's D800 digital SLR. Photo provided by Nikon Inc. Click to read our Nikon D800 preview!Fans of really big prints and generous cropping, prepare to rejoice: Nikon Inc. has today announced the Nikon D800 and Nikon D800E 35mm full frame SLRs, two very-closely related models that bring an impressive boost in resolution to the FX format without sacrificing on sensitivity.

In reality, the Nikon D800 and D800E are one and the same camera, the latter being a...