- Several photography websites were invited to visit the Nikon 1 factory in China. They were not allowed to take pictures and could only publish images given to them by Nikon:
- Nikon lenses explained: Non-AI, AI, AI-S, and AI’d.
- Nikon provides 30 million yen aid to the victims of floods in Thailand.
- Nikon Romania reduced the D700 price by 500Lei (~€125):
- Nikon updated Short Movie Creator to version 1.1.0.
- Nikon MB-D11 battery pack compared to the third party version Meike MB-D11.
- The new N-Photo magazine for Nikon photographers will also be available in the US.
- Check out the Tamarkin’s rare camera auction that will take place on Sunday, October 30. A black Nikon SP rangefinder is part of the auction (get the PDF catalog here)
- Nikon has a patent (7138663) from 2006 about a color separation device of solid-state image sensor:
“A microlens condenses incident light to an opening. Light passed through the opening reaches a first dichroic mirror. The first dichroic mirror passes blue light and reflects green and red light. Only the blue light is incident on a first light receiving surface. The first dichroic mirror leads the green and red light to a second dichroic mirror. The second dichroic mirror passes the green light and reflects the red light. Only the green light is incident on a second light receiving surface. The second dichroic mirror leads the red light to a third dichroic mirror. The third dichroic mirror reflects the red light. Therefore, the red light is incident on a third light receiving surface.”
- A reader emailed me this story of a Nikon D300s launched into space via a weather balloon. You can see some of the images here. This is the launch video:
Cygnus Launch from Erich Leeth on Vimeo.
