Monthly Archives: May 2009

Nikon expects biggest loss in 11 years, stock down

By [NR] admin | Published: May 14, 2009

Nikon reproted a 62.8% dive in net profit to 28.06 billion yen in fiscal 2008. The net loss will total 17 billion yen ($176 million) in the 12 months ending next March (source) Nikon is still aggressively planing to increase its market share in the Indian market to 45% by 2010 (source) Sales of Nikon lenses shot up by 9% […]

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Cheap Wi-Fi tethering solution for your Nikon

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2009

Not long ago we were discussing Nikon’s Media Port UP300x headset tethering and few related patents that followed. For real wireless tethering you can go with Nikon’s remote WT-4a (for over 700 US bucks) or you can DIY one for around $50. You will need this (or any similar) Cables Unlimited USB-WIRELESS Dongle Set. Go to Pete’s Tech Ramblings for all the details. […]

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The question is: what is lens #2182 going to be?

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2009

If you remember this previous post about the skipped Nikon lenses IDs, you have probably noticed that one of the missing numbers (#2181) got filled by the new Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED AF-S DX lens. The question is: what is lens #2182 going to be? Some clarifications on the ID schema Nikon is using, since some readers got confused: this […]

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Nikon related links/news

By [NR] admin | Published: May 10, 2009

Don’t have much this weekend: Film-shooting with the D90 – a reader sent me a long email (had to post it in the forum) describing his experiences shooting a movie with the Nikon D90. Nikon 1200-1700mm f/5.6-8 pics – just look at this thing… More on that monster lens can be found here. Here is a […]

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New Nikon patents – it’s all about the headset

By [NR] admin | Published: May 9, 2009

Tethered shooting via a headset? Maybe this is not that far away. Few months ago Nikon released the Nikon Media Port UP300x video headset and now there are 3 new patent application that just became public today: Wearable display: “A proposition is to provide a wearable display suitable for enjoying contents including images by plural users […]

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The end of Nikon D400 book story

By [NR] admin | Published: May 8, 2009

Out friends from canikon.de sent us this update from Markt und Technik publisher regarding the previously reported Nikon D400 book: Nikon D400 camera book Please note that a recent announcement on this website of a title accompanying a possible Nikon Corporation product D400 was purely speculative, and was in no way based on information from Nikon Corporation. The title in question […]

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Free PC capture software for Nikon DSLR

By [NR] admin | Published: May 7, 2009

The free image capture software for Nikon DSLRs that I presented few days ago was only for a Mac. Now PC users will have also something to play with – DCamCapture (thanks Fabian): Functions: Copies images during shooting Start Image capture Timer to capture image sequences LiveView with image capture and video recording (MJPEG in AVI file) function […]

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