Monthly Archives: October 2011

The state of the Nikon D800

By [NR] admin | Published: October 24, 2011

Since there were no significant leaks up till now, I would say that the Nikon D800 will not be announced this week. Pretty much all the information I have been receiving in the past few days says the same thing – the D800 announcement is postponed (including digicame-inf0 who first mentioned the October 26th announcement date). If something changes in the [...]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #133

By [NR] admin | Published: October 22, 2011
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New spotting scope adapter from Kenko (see this related guest post from few days ago): Check Amazon for pricing 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 UK says the megapixel race ended [...]

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Nikon 1 V1 and J1 mirrorless cameras now shipping

By [NR] admin | Published: October 21, 2011
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The Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras are now shipping to retailers worldwide. In the US, B&H and Adorama are still closed and Amazon has a shipping date of November 15. Currently OneCall (Nikon V1 | Nikon J1) and J&R (Nikon V1 | Nikon J1) have the new cameras in stock. Update: Amazon got some kits in stock today.

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Water levels at Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand are currently between 2.6 and 2.87 meters

By [NR] admin | Published: October 21, 2011
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You can check the water levels at Rojana Industrial Park in Thailand on this website (updated daily). The current level is between 2.6 and 2.87 meters (between 8.5-9.5 feet): Nikon latest report mentioned the level to be “around 2 meters”

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Nikon issued second notice on the damage from the flood in Thailand

By [NR] admin | Published: October 21, 2011

Nikon just published a second notice on the damage from the flood in Thailand (see first statement here) – they cannot provide any estimation on the potential damages because they still don’t have access to the factory. There are no reported casualties from Nikon’s employees. As expected, there will be products shortage. No word on [...]

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