Nikon Announces New Compact, Lightweight G-Type Ultra-Wideangle Zoom for Nikon Digital SLRs

TOKYO--Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the development of the first DX Nikkor lens -- the AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 12-24mm* f/4G IF-ED. (*18-36mm in 35mm (135) format equivalent with Nikon D1-series and D100 digital SLRs).

This will be the first truly compact, lightweight AF-S ultra-wideangle zoom lens designed exclusively for use with Nikon digital SLR cameras, and is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2003.

Read the entire Nikon press release.

Also see Rob Galbraith's Nikkor 12-24mm article.