Monthly Archives: January 2010

PopPhoto’s crystal ball

Crystal Ball, originally uploaded by deanfotos66. Popular Photography named the Nikon D3X as its camera of the year for 2009. In the same article they mentioned: “Our crystal ball tells us the D3x’s 24.5MP sensor is likely to show up in a consumer model soon.” Not sure how accurate their crystal ball is.

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Nikon press conference scheduled for February 3rd, 2010

Nikon press conference is scheduled for February 3rd, 2010 – I am saying this with 100% confidence. As I mention before, this time I will not specify the country and location. This date also matches with the expected release of new Coolpix cameras on February 2nd. In the past Nikon has not scheduled press conferences for [...]

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Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E III is also listed

Update: Nikon USA corrected their website, the smoke remains. Same “typo” for the Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E II: Good timing on updating those teleconverters before the 2010 winter Olympics.

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The new Nikon TC-17E III teleconverter

Update: Nikon USA corrected their website, the smoke remains. Just a clarification on the Nikon TC-17E III teleconverter: this rumor is not based on the Nikon website listing that could be a typo (two typos in two sentences?): I received the information about the new Nikon TC-17E III teleconverter few days ago and after I posted it online [...]

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New Nikon Coolpix cameras on February 2nd

I know many readers here do not care about Coolpix cameras. I expect that Nikon will deliver at least one unique and innovative point and shoot camera – maybe built-in GPS, email, etc. – they have filed multiple patents applications in this area. The interesting part of this announcement will be the high end Coolpix [...]

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Nikon related links/news/rumors

A little bit of everything. First some rumors that I did not post before since I do not have any confirmations from other sources: Rumor: new Nikon TC 1,7 teleconverter should be released at the end of January. The design should be similar to the new Nikon TC-20E III AF-S 2x teleconverter. I have no previous [...]

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