- New Yongnuo YN-565EX flash for Nikon released. Available on eBay for for around $150.
- According to DCWatch, the Nikon D90 is the 2011 #2 top selling product in the electronics and camera category on Amazon Japan with 70,000 units sold (#1 was Apple's iPod).
- New custom grip for Nikon J1 cameras by Richard Franiec.
- A Japanese company introduced several different adapters for Nikon 1, including one for EOS lenses (pictured above).
- Nikon Russia sells Nikon branded watches made by Polet.
- WebOS is now open source. At one point there were rumors that Nikon was interested in buying webOS from HP.
- Is this a Nikon lens on the MIT camera that can capture traveling light at one trillion frames per second?
- How to bake a Nikon cake.
- Nikon will be promoting/hosting private performances with hot music industry artists (Hot Chelle Rae, Gavin DeGraw) beginning next week across many Clear Channel radio stations.
- How NOT to lose $1,800 in 20 seconds (a better ending video than this one):
- Nikon-Walkley Awards Sport Montage 2011:
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what’s the ISO range of the watch? And how many Megapixels?
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Maybe they use good glass for the crystal.
I actually would like this watch, if it didn’t have the Nikon logo.
Just an FYI for the noobs. “not surprised” is a well known troll. Ignore him. He’s just jelly his Canon can’t autofocus.
@ Canon troll alert
Why would you feel the need to point this out to a post that was not Nikon bashing in the least? First of all, I’ve read NikonRumors daily for the last 2 years and can name at least 5 or 6 trolls, but this Not Surprised is definitely not one of them. Secondly, I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw that watch. Nice watch, but too bad it says Nikon on it. Sorry I don’t feel the need to give them free advertisement.
NR Administrator: Can you get a nikon watch on another free giveaway like you have with other items?
Thanks
yep. give a watch to marco and a D4 to me.
Admin doesn’t choose what advertisers offer him. And I don’t think Nikon needs any more advertising on a site that is already a big, free advertisement for them.
There is no way for me to buy it from Russia.
For $189. I am not sure it is such a good deal. If it was 1/2 that I would get one for fun.
I’m surprised that the D90 was still selling that well in Japan this year. No love for the D7000?
I’m surprised that there’s four dSLRs in the top 10, (D90, D3100, X4, X5) and no mirrorless. I was just remarking earlier today that most people you see wandering around these days in Japan seem to be carrying MFT cameras rather than dSLRs.
Still the data is for Amazon.co.jp. Most people buy higher end cameras – or cameras that are new to them – from a camera store like Map, or at least in person at an electronics store like Yodobashi. Amazon is for “known quantity” purchases, so will skew to reliable, well known models like the d90 and Canon X series.
D90 has been selling on really low price everywhere during the year, maybe that’s the reason ? (don’t know what was the price in japanese amazon)
I know many people who bough D90 this year because of the nice deals that were offered.
D90 + 18-105 was available for 70,000 yen at a couple of points this year, slightly higher now, 90,000 yen at amazon.co.jp today.
only idiots and poor people still use FILM
Well… i’m not poor so thanks for calling me an idiot……
Film is more expensive than digital (unless you include disposables).
People use film because they choose to. Motion film might be changing the subject, Christopher Nolan is neither poor nor an idiot, he chooses film over digital as it’s simpler to operate the cameras meaning less shoots are lost. He used both digital and film for the important stunt scenes that couldn’t be reproduced, he was shooting film as a back up to digital. He quickly realised the film was as usable as the digital shots, when the cost of operating both types of cameras became too much he simply dropped the digital side. I don’t think people stopped using film because it was inferior, increasing costs and lack of support did that.
only the rich and educated make generalizations….
So now we know who is real fool and idiot is, tsk tsk, it would better if you kept your mouth shut forever and start using yr brain for the first time in your life, thank you.
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yes all the experts detest high resolution and dynamic range
Have fun archiving your digital files.
LOL and all the film guys come out of hiding. Feel their rage at being left behind.
@Troll Win!
Haven’t used film since I was 20, that was 24 years ago. If that and replying to Wedding Kings comment makes me an enraged film guy so be it. But really, film will always have its uses.
Not sure the Jessops “offer” is up to much considering you can buy the D700 cheaper at Mifsuds, Calumet, Amazon, PIXmania and Dixons.
http://www.dixons.co.uk/gbuk/nikon-d700-digital-slr-camera-body-00926315-pdt.html?srcid=369&xtor=AL-63
The D3x is also cheaper at WEX and Calumet http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/eng/product//355-999A
since when has Jessops ever been ‘the cheapest in the UK’ for and Nikon SLR/DSLR kit?
Actually, in 1978, they were the cheapest by a few quid for a Nikkormat FT3. Since then? Nah!
My thoughts exactly! Sounds like another DFS sale to me.
I want the watch! Maybe some Russian with buy a bunch and offer them on eBay.
Btw this one of Nikon Russia watches quite interesting!
http://www.nikonmarket.ru/index.php?mn=2&blk=1&ctg=16&tp=dtl&ctg=16&id=920&stp=gal
Found this while searching for “Nikon Watch”… Not a timepiece.. But damn funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTVfFmENgPU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Where can I buy one of them watches in the US… yes I would like to win one, but I’m never lucky like that…
Yea I want a watch. I could use one to tell the time from time to time. I wonder if it would fit on a sausage.
That’s lewd. It seems that I am as famous as KR now some around here are impersonating me. Help me feed my growing family, LOL.
What?? I’m pretty sure our names are completely different. I had no idea anyone else shared a name that sort of resembled mine. Don’t assume the whole world revolves around you. It doesn’t. If it bothers you that your name is vaguely like mine, think up another avatar.
What is the problem with my avatar? It is just a Victorian style house. Scubadriver, scubahammer, so what? I bet you are too scared to go diving. Let’s go down to 50 meters so I can watch you panic. I know girls with more guts than you have.
You have elevated me to Ken Rockwell levels, thank you.
pssst, don’t feed the trolls
Good idea!
But it was so damn funny! “I wonder if it would fit on a sausage.” I did a spit take!
How can you mount a 135L to Nikon J1 ?.
Get J1 + 135 L + four adaptors, namely 5015 +7879 +7923 +7157, set the camera in M mode, then some eye-hand co-ordinations… may be difficult for some people from above though…
Where can I buy those adapters ?.
Nevermind….saw the link from a Japanese company.
Agree, I could understand a 17mm shift or something else that is not in the Nikon inventory. But a 135?
Canon doesn’t have mirrorless body. If you already have Canon lenses, then you would use adapters to mount them on your J1 or whatever other mirrorless camera you have.
they sell that watch for $200 here, anyone interested? there’s actually a more “descrete” nikkor version [img]http://www.nikonmarket.ru/i/20/920_2006.jpg[/img] for, like, $135
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image doesn’t show up, but you can manage copy/paste I believe… I’m not scamming here, and not associated with that shop. You can actually send them a question to shop@nikon.ru, maybe they will be able to ship it out of Russia.
i only want a nikon watch, if it has a Diaphragm that actually works. like at 1 o clock its fully open, and at 11 o clock its allmost completely shut
No price is known yet on the grip for the J1, but they’re going to have to work very hard to convince buyers that a grip that costs less than the fancy $80 Nikon version is anything more than just a lump of plastic sticking off the side of the camera.
(for the sarcasm impaired, the above was not intended to be taken seriously).
@ Admin
I simply love that the news flash started with a flash!
lol, did not even think about that
Love the watch! Nikon UK, are you listening? You never have any Nikon merchandise: T-shirts, watches etc, etc. So when you have your occasional customer surveys why do you bother to ask whether we would be interested if you are just going to disappoint us?
More like Weekly Nikon Flash News.
Behind the scenes Dara Nikon 1 advert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxcKr663OE
“Nikon branded watches” Ugh! I love my camera but there’s no way in hell I’d wear a Nikon branded watch.
@Admin: in the video about the experiment at MIT, the camera in the background is a Canon Rebel of some sort, and the lens shown in close up at around 49 seconds is definitely a Sigma midrange zoom. Either the 28-70/2.8 or a 24-70/2.8. Not Nikon or new.