Monthly Archives: February 2011

About next week Nikon announcements and beyond

There will be no new DSLR announcement during the Nikon press conferences scheduled for February 9th, 2011. At least five new Coolpix cameras will be introduced next week for the  CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Japan (February 9-12, 2011). One of them will be a new super-zoom (Nikon Coolpix P500), the second will be a 24-100mm compact […]

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Weekly Nikon related news/links #96

Sigma dropped the price of their 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM (Nikon mount) lens to $1,399 (from $1699). Kenko will provide a Nikon F mount adapter for their t new interchangeable lenses digital camera (C-mount). New version v1.1 of the free Nikontrol 3K is out (discussed previously here). DIY GPS tracking for Nikon DSLR with Android phone. Nikon […]

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Watch out Leica, Nikon can also do limited editions

A Belgium store is advertising a Nikon limited edition box set that includes the latest Nikkor AF-S 24mm, 35mm and 85mm f/1.4 lenses. The price is €4,899 and only 100 pieces will be produced. Different from Leica limited editions, this Nikon set is actually selling for less than the individual items combined – the current Amazon France prices […]

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Nikon 2011 Q3 financial results: “new generation digital cameras are under development”

Nikon’s 2011 Q3 ended on December 31, 2010 and the financial results are now out – sales are up, income is down. Compared to Q3 of 2010, Nikon sold more imaging products in all three categories: 300,000 more  single-lens reflex cameras, 600,000 more interchangeable lenses and 2.3 million more compact cameras.

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Nikon Coolpix S8100 compared to Canon S95 and why Nikon needs a serious compact camera

I am very particular when it comes to small (pocketable) cameras and I wanted to find out how good (or bad) the top of the line Coolpix S8100 really is. I ignored the P7000 because it is in a different category – I wanted to see what a “real” point and shoot Nikon camera is all about. A natural choice […]

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Hacking the Digital: Stills in Motion (guest post by Andrew Kornylak)

Today’s guest post is by Andrew Kornylak. You probably remember some of his stop motion videos taken with a Nikon D3 I posted back in 2009. The topis he will cover today is “Hacking the Digital: Stills in Motion”: Before I “became” a professional photographer, I was a software developer. Windows applications, wireless devices, game software, web… […]

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Best Buy adopts Nikon’s internal numbering scheme (Q740, Q750)

Few months back I posted a screenshot from an internal Best Buy message that listed a Nikon product under the code name Q750. The Qxxx notation is an internal Nikon numbering scheme – basically every Nikon DSLR camera has a code name that is different than the actual product name. It was suggested that the Q750 could be the […]

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