Monthly Archives: May 2012

Nikon to start producing pharmaceutical and cosmetic products?

Nikon Corporation added an amendment to their Articles of Incorporation to “Manufacture and sale of pharmaceuticals, quasi-pharmaceutical products and cosmetics“. Few months ago Fujifilm also announced the introduction of their own skin care/beauty product line – maybe this is the new trend for Japanese camera manufacturers?

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Nikon D800E available for order on BestBuy.com, will ship in 5-7 days

BestBuy has listed the Nikon D800E on their website and you can now order it. I checked several different zip codes and the availability was 5-7 days (shipped to your local Best Buy store). The D800E was previously not listed on BestBuy.com. The D800 and D4 are still listed as “sold out online“. Here for […]

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Nikon working on a new Coolpix camera with a large(-r) sensor

Nikon is currently working on a new camera with a large(-r) sensor to compete with the Canon PowerShot G1X ($799). It’s not clear if Nikon will just use the 1″ sensor from their mirrorless line or they will go with a new 1.5″ sensor similar to the G1X. The current Coolpix P7100 camera has 1/1.7″ CCD sensor. For […]

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New firmware update v1.03 for Nikon D700?

A member of the German forum dslr-forum.de received his new Nikon D700 camera and noticed that the installed firmware version A was 1.03. The latest officially announced firmware update for the D700 was A/B 1.02. Maybe Nikon is about to release the new 1.03 version?

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Nikon D4 now in stock

Nikon D4 is now in stock at OneCall. This also means that they no longer have a waiting list. Update: the status now says “coming soon“.

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Nikon D4 now ships without a free XQD card and reader

Up till now Nikon included a free 16GB Sony XQD card and a reader (aprox. $185 value) with every D4 shipment. This seems no longer to be the case and  the last Nikon D4 shipments do not include any freebies. The other bad news is that so far I have not heard about another major manufacturer to jump […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #162

New: Lensbaby Pro effects kit for Nikon mount. Rare lens on eBay: Nikkor Ai-S 1:5.6/13mm. DxOMark added more lenses to their Nikon D4 test. New version of Sofortbild released with Nikon D4/D800/D800E support. New remote control/tethered shooting software for Nikon DSLR (still in beta). New underwater housings for Nikon D4/D800 coming soon from Seacam. Notice of […]

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