Nikon posted a notice describing the losses due to the flooding in Thailand as “extraordinary”: ¥10,904 million (around $143 million). Nikon received an insurance payment of ¥500 million (around $6.5 million). Additional insurance payment is pending. As a results of the losses, Nikon changed their forecast of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 as follow:
These are the top 10 most visited NikonRumors posts for January 2012: Nikon D4: $6,000, Nikkor AF-S 85mm f/1.8G: $500 Who wants to see the Nikon D800 on nikon.de? Nikon D800 on February 7th, Coolpix cameras on February 2nd Nikon D4 vs. Canon EOS 1Dx specs comparison Another alleged picture of the Nikon D800 Nikon D4 vs. […]
This is the text of the invitation to the Nikon event in Hong Kong on February 7th, 2012 (see also the press invitation from Thailand on the same date): Dear NPS Members, Nikon cordially requests the honour of your presence at the “Nikon Product Announcement Party”, the details are shown as follow: Venue: The Diamond […]
The “Tatouage” movie poster and the questionable image on flickr are now gone. You will be able to see them again in 5 days.
An update on my previous post: several readers noticed that Shinji Watanabe’s flickr stream (NSFW) contains at least one image without EXIF data with a maximum/original resolution of 7360 x 4912 (just like those D800 samples): Note that some of the images were taken with a Hasselblad H3D-39 that can go “only” up to 5412 x 7212. The image in question […]
Few days ago the Japanese photographer and director Shinji Watanabe uploaded a picture on flickr that was probably taken with Nikon D800 (see EXIF data at the bottom of this post). The picture was removed few hours later but on his website Shinji Watanabe wrote about an upcoming 30 minute short movie called “Tatouage” shot with a Nikon camera that […]
The new Coolpix cameras are now available for pre-order (I got a pink S30, side by side comparison with the D800 coming soon): Nikon Coolpix S9300 Nikon Coolpix S6300 Nikon Coolpix S4300 Nikon Coolpix S3300 Nikon Coolpix S30 Nikon Coolpix P510 Nikon Coolpix P310 Nikon Coolpix L810 Nikon Coolpix L26
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