Monthly Archives: March 2009

New Nikon EDG Fieldscopes with DSLR compatibility

Update: B&H is now taking pre-orders on those new Nikon Fieldscopes – expensive! Nikon Fieldscope 85-A mm EDG 3.3″/85mm Spotting Scope Kit Nikon Fieldscope 85mm EDG 3.3″/85mm Spotting Scope Kit Nikon continues to release DSLR compatible products. Few weeks ago we had the new Nikon Fabre Photo EX – a portable stereoscopic microscope that can […]

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Réponses Photo magazine promises to reveal the mystery of the Nikon MX sensor

Last issue of the French magazine Réponses Photo, in the Nikon PMA ’09 report section (page 10): “Regarding the current buzz on a large format MX sensor, it seems to be more than a rumour now. We’ll tell you more soon…” Can’t wait to hear their story.

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New interactive website announced today – Nikon History

Check it out (click the ENTER button).

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Poland: 10% price increase coming at you

I received some information that Nikon prices in Poland will go up by 10% on April 1st, 2009. Sony is also raising prices in  the UK on April 1st by 18% (source). This banner was on the main page of Jacobsdigital (UK) few days ago.

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Last post on the Nikon D400 book

I did email Herr Michael Gradias (the author of the Nikon D400 book), but did not get a response. A reader actually called him yesterday: “So, I called him yesterday evening as I promised above. We had a nice talk. When I mentioned the D400 after some time, he laughed. He has a NDA with Nikon, that was clear […]

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Photo Imaging Expo 2009

Photo Imaging Expo 2009 will take place in Tokyo on March 26-29 and it seems that Canon will be announcing a new DSLR camera on the 25th. The chances that Nikon will be announcing something at the same time are slim, but we can still hope.

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Nikon Interview

Interview with Mr. Nakayama Akira (Marketing Division of Nikon Imaging Company): Nikon D40 successor “under development” “I will put new products at a rate similar to previous years” Video in DSLR: “The direction is right” Nikon is interested in mirror-less system (4/3), but they do not have any in development Original text / Translated text […]

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More digging on the Nikon D400 book

I did some more digging on the Nikon D400 book – a simple google search on the ISBN 9783827244826 (click here to run the search) reveals several different website listings. The most interesting one is from the actual publisher Markt+Technik (this was mentioned in the comments few weeks ago, but never reported). The www.mut.de link on the search […]

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