Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the Thailand factory has helped with production runs, but again this company is not nearly the size of Canon. Yes, Nikon's history of announcing products and delivering products is around a 6-12 month difference. The FF rumor was brought up again "supposedly" from Nikon Japan reps saying that the DX lenses would be fully useable on a FF Nikon using a D2x-like sensor cropping system. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" Subject:Photos of M8 now D2x > Christopher, > I think that they are just rumors as the full frame lens stable is a little > bare at the Nikon Cookie store. Yes, a good outfit of 17-35, 70-200 is > quite desireable. But, considering that Nikon can not fill orders for the > 18-200 and is introducing the 18-135 and a rather good 75-300 ED VR I don't > expect any new lenses this time around. Heck, even the rather fabulous but > non-mainstream 100 Macro is hard to come by. Considering Nikon's history of > not being able to build quantities of new items I think the D80 will tap > them out for a while: although preorders for the D80 are running pretty > slim. Possibly by PMA will we see something astonishing. > > Don