Monthly Archives: July 2011

Top 10 posts for July 2011

By [NR] admin | Published: July 31, 2011

These are the top 10 most visited NikonRumors posts for July 2011: Nikon rep: two DSLRs will be announced by the end of August. Picture of Nikon’s mirrorless camera mount. This one didn’t make it: Nikon D3s get crashed by a Ford pickup truck. Another Nikon D4/D800 rumor from Facebook. You can now attach Nikon [...]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #121

By [NR] admin | Published: July 30, 2011

Second part of the The Great Camera Shootout 2011 is now online (incl. Nikon D7000). Nikon has the best after sales service in Japan. See the official Japanese press release. Nikon announced that they will be making some Coolpix models in Brazil (L120, S4100, S3100, S2500 and L23). Nikon recently established its own subsidiaries in [...]

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More on the white housing NASA uses on their Nikon cameras *UPDATED*

By [NR] admin | Published: July 29, 2011

On several occasions NASA has published pictures of Nikon cameras covered in special white housing. Few days ago, I tweeted the picture above but did not know much about it. PopPhoto contacted NASA and got some more details: “What is all of that extra equipment under the white shroud? The equipment under the thermal blanket is [...]

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Nikon executives: We have almost completed the development of a new generation of digital cameras

By [NR] admin | Published: July 28, 2011

In two different interviews Nikon executives mentioned that they have “almost” completed a new generation of digital cameras which will offer customers new ways to enjoy their images. “Creating markets by launching new generation products and products of new domain” is also on of the four challenges listed on the business strategy section for Nikon’s [...]

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Nikon to re-introduce GPS in their Coolpix cameras

By [NR] admin | Published: July 27, 2011
Built-in GPS in the old Nikon Coolpix P6000 camera (from 2008)

Nikon’s P6000, that was announced back in 2008, had a built-in GPS but for some reason Nikon did not continue this trend in later models. If I am not mistaken, currently there are no Nikon cameras with built-in GPS capabilities. This is about to change next month, as Nikon is about to announce it’s first rugged compact [...]

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