Monthly Archives: April 2009

Just another Nikon ad from Germany (humor)

This is just a continuation of the previous “Nikon ads from Germany” post: Source

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ThinkTank Urban Disguise 60 shoulder bag review

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Usually my posts are very short. This one is not. This is the first NR product review. I am keeping up with my promise -I already started the Nikon Rumors Forum and next in the list are product reviews. My first choice for review is the ThinkTank Urban Disguise 60 photo shoulder bag.  I will not review [...]

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Is there a secret Nikon L firmware?

L firmware? L like language database? No, we have that already. Lens database? Yes, it is a lens database introduced for the first time with the Nikon D90 DSLR according to David Busch (he is the author of several photography books). The L firmware is suppose to “allow more sophisticated distance integration” provided by current and [...]

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A bunch of new patent applications from Nikon

Those are basically Nikon patent applications from the last few months of 2008 that just became public. I will go trough them in more details and will report later on if I find something interesting. Feel free to help me out – it’s a lot of reading: Illuminating optical apparatus, exposure apparatus and device manufacturing [...]

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Just some crops for comparison

Some crops form the spy shots:    and for comparison here is a D40 shot from above: As some readers have noticed, the pop-up flash shape is different and the mode dial button has 13 settings (the D40 has only 12). I think one of the settings reads “SCENE”, the rest appear to be identical.

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