Update: Nikon Australia will also launch a new advertising campaign: “Nikon is set to re-launch their brand in Australia, with a major multimillion dollar marketing campaign, featuring Robbie Williams. The Japanese Company is also introducing several new digital cameras’ ranging in price from $99 to $2,000.” Campaignlive reports that Nikon will start a new “I am…” [...]
I received an unconfirmed report that Nikon will have a press event on April 4th, 2011. Nikon D5100 and/or the new mirrorless camera system are expected. I will know more next week. I received this tip yesterday before the earthquake and I am not sure if the date will be changed.
AP was told by Nikon’s UK spokeswoman that there are no injured employees and factories are not significantly affected after the major 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan: “However, we have been informed that the Nikon Corporation building and factories located in the north of Japan are, fortunately, not significantly affected. Importantly, no injured employees have been reported.” See [...]
A major 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan few hours ago. The earthquake’s epicenter was 111 miles east of the city of Sendai. Nikon has a major manufacturing facility in Sendai:
Few weeks ago DSLR Magazine and Mirrorlessrumors already reported that the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera will be targeted at professionals which contradicted what Nikon executives have said last year. It is possible that Nikon has changed their strategy and decided to go with a different solution.
Nikon UK just added live chat support on their website where you can directly talk to member of the support team. Very useful feature if you don’t want to waist time digging through Nikon’s service and support website. The chat support hours are: Mo – Fr from 09:00 am – 05:00 pm GMT. Oh, and [...]
