Monthly Archives: August 2010

Weekly Nikon related news/links #72

By [NR] admin | Published: August 22, 2010

In case you didn’t know: Nikon has been using Phase One cameras to take some of their press images for a while. Some of the Nikon D3100 press shots were taken with a… Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (see here, here and here). My only explanation is that those photographs were taken by the PR agency: Digitalrev [...]

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Nikon now producing their own sensors?

By [NR] admin | Published: August 20, 2010

Thom Hogan has an update on his Nikon D3100 post indicating that based on one of his sources, Nikon has indeed started to produce their own sensors. I already mentioned a quote from Nikon’s website that the new 14.2MP DX-format CMOS image sensor from the Nikon D3100 is “developed by Nikon”, although from the press [...]

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Q&A session with Nikon Denmark: 16MP Nikon D90 replacement before Photokina, no other DSLR

By [NR] admin | Published: August 20, 2010

This is the transcript of Nikon’s press conference in Denmark. After the event, there was a Q&A session and here are some of the interesting Answers from Nikon Denmark: “10:02 Svend Erik says that Nikon was out of the crisis in six months 10:02 since the first April, sales exploded and there are now problems [...]

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Amazon, B&H and Adorama are now taking pre-order

By [NR] admin | Published: August 19, 2010

Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the latest Nikon products – according to the press release “these four lenses will be available starting in September 2010″: Nikon D3100 kit Nikon D3100 two lenses kit Nikkor AF-S 85mm f/1.4G lens Nikkor AF-S 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens Nikkor AF-S DX 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR lens Nikkor [...]

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Recap

By [NR] admin | Published: August 19, 2010

First, a note: the comments are going out of control again. Unreasonable Nikon bashing will not be tolerated. Comments like “Nikon sucks” or “I am switching to Canon” do not bring any value to the discussion. Please use common sense and show your arguments in a logical way. The new products from Nikon are now [...]

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Capture NX 2.2.5 should be coming soon

By [NR] admin | Published: August 19, 2010

The sample images provided for the Nikkor AF-S 85mm f/1.4G lens were processed with Capture NX 2.2.5. The last official version of Capture NX was 2.2.4. Now you know what’s coming. I guess Capture NX 3 will take some more time.

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