Just when you thought you can never get what you want it - there's an option and you have to take it in the minute...

Happened to me yesterday when I actually just wanted to by a cleaning towel for my lenes ( Sigma 18-50 f2.8 ) - just for fun I asked the shop here in SF (Discount Cameras) and they had it...

The Nikon AF-S 18-200 lens
with image stabilzer... announced in October 2005 - I am waiting for it since Jan 2006... 8 Months and no delivery...

of course there are some people on ebay that are selling this thing for way over 1000$ - and yet some of them MUST be japanese or couterfeit models...

In any case- I shelled out $1300 yesterday to get my hands IMMEDIATELY on this thing and loved to pay a 20% premium that probably the dealer earned (hehe - not really like the name "discount camera" ...) but hey - I got my US model, 5 yrs US warranty, could INSPECT and TEST-SHOT everything...

And here I am - only 8 months after waiting for this device I travelled San Francisco yesterday and I am AMAZED from this lens , compared to the prev. Tamron 28-300 lens this is SO MUCH faster, SO MUCH clearer... can't believe it... and I tought the Tamrom was already a great lens...

After having my D200 for some time now, this is really not surprisign to me :-)

Nikon D200 Wins Camera Grand Prix 2006 Award - PhotographyBLOG

The Nikon D200 is definately the most advanced Digital SLR currently available on the market... go and get it!

Some really great digital retouche portfolios to show the puzzling difference between real shots and the retouched result

Portfolio Site - showing amazing results of the retouch. Check these wrinkels getting removed

Digital Pablo

DigitalRetouch.net - shaping , beauty/hair, Manipulation - you name it - find EVERY sample on this page

Stretchmark mania

Glamour photo retouching portfolio

another great one

Find more at the diet blog

Now it's official ... Canon EOS 30D is announced... but compared to the Nikon D200 I am NOT impressed by the specs...

Nikon confirm D200 Banding Problems ... well I hope those are fixed when I finally get mine.

I just came across the Nikon-D200.com | A community site that stresses that it's not affiliated with Nikon... currently this looks like just like an RSS aggregator site for everything that has the keyword D200 in it...

Also I just came across a nice Nikon D200 sample gallery