Monthly Archives: August 2010

Announcements

By [NR] admin | Published: August 16, 2010

There is a low chance that new Coolpix cameras will be announced tonight (Monday, US Eastern time) and the Nikon D3100 plus the four lenses on Wednesday night. The second option is that everything will be announced together on Wednesday night (around midnight, US Eastern time). The German magazine “Foto Digital” leak from last week had only two Coolpix cameras […]

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Nikon patents update: new 24mm lens and more EVIL

By [NR] admin | Published: August 16, 2010

A quick update on the latest Nikon patents before the announcements start tomorrow. Patent application 20100195221 is for a 24mm FX wide angle lens. Two examples are shown – one with f/2.8 and one with f/3.5: First example (f/2.8) | Second example (f/3.5): f = 24.698     | 24.400 (focal length) FNO = 2.9 […]

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Nikon D3S and Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens receive EISA awards

By [NR] admin | Published: August 16, 2010

Nikon D3S is the best professional camera and Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II is the best professional lens according to 2010-2011 EISA awards. Reasons for selection after the break:

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Weekly Nikon related news/links #71

By [NR] admin | Published: August 15, 2010

A word about the ISO in the Nikon D90 replacement: (I am still not convinced about the D95 name, so I will continue to call it the “Nikon D90 replacement”) I think we can now be confident about the previously rumored “D700-like” ISO in the D90 successor – we saw already that the Nikon D3100 will have a 100 […]

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New button/lever on the Nikon D3100

By [NR] admin | Published: August 14, 2010

There seems to be a new button/lever on the Nikon D3100 picture from “Foto Digital” – maybe for direct video recording? On previous Nikon models you had to switch first to Live View and then start video recording.

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First pictures of the Nikon D3100 and the four new lenses

By [NR] admin | Published: August 13, 2010

Continuation from my previous post – this is the new Nikon D3100 scanned from the German magazine ”Foto Digital” (click on image for larger view): and the four new lenses (click for larger view): I have a scan of the whole article and I am going through all the details now (it’s in German).

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Nikon Coolpix S1100pj and Coolpix S5100 pictures

By [NR] admin | Published: August 13, 2010

This the Nikon Coolpix section from the same German magazine “Foto Digital” (see pictures of the Nikon D3100 and the four new lenses here). First is the new Nikon Coolpix S1100pj. As we already know, it will have a built in projector: price around 350 Euros touchscreen remote control several other improvements And the new Nikon […]

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