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New Nikon prototype/concept cameras on display in France

Nikon displayed some new prototype/concept cameras as part of the Hello Demain (Hello Tomorrow) exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, France). The first Nikon camera prototype has three interchangeable pieces –  LCD screen, lens and a grip:

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September 18th or November 8th (updated)

Post in dpreview: “Just got an e-mail from NPS Holland to mark 8 November in my agenda for a special event that hasn’t has an equal” Anyone else getting such emails? Can someone forward me the actual text? Just fyi – November 8th is a Saturday. Another post at camerarumors: “Meanwhile, Nikon will make like […]

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MX Lenses

This is the message I received: “So i DID WRITE ALL THE BOXES. I can make mabe a picture next wheek when I am on the night work schedule, not now. So you will belief me 
So here is all 6 six boxes: AF-S MX Nikkor 24 f4.0G AF-S MX Nikkor 45 f2.8G AF-S MX […]

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Thom Hogan said…

Thom Hogan is back from his trip in Alaska. He may not be happy about this, but I will again carefully read every single word in his latest post on his web site: “Meanwhile the A900 becomes the megapixel bargain (at least for a short period of time)” – is there something coming? Maybe Canon? […]

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Comment in a forum

NR received a forum comment made by someone who was correct before in terms of predicting future announcement. This individual is also known to be a tester for a major company. I agree not to reveal the country or the name of this person. This is what he/she said and I am quoting the translation […]

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Megavision and Nikon

Another one from dpreview: “It’s now an open secret that Megavision will be unveiling some interesting new cameras at Photokina that are FF (11 and 16 megapixels), with EVF and a Nikon F mount.” Anyone knows more about this “open secret”?

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One bad and two good news

Anonymous message to NR: “Please be advised that the “Otoji” concept as you refer to is no longer current. Although accurate, the project in this form was abandoned over a year ago. It was deemed to be too complicated for deployment. However, selected components and concepts are being introduced in a new system which is set for release […]

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MX may just mean Multi Format

I have to be very careful how I report this information, so here we go… Somewhere, at some point of time, someone that works for an unidentified company talked about: the bulk of the camera body, especially the vertical grip. The remark was that a certain company had considered a square sensor, so that the […]

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