Monthly Archives: February 2013

Nikon established sales and service subsidiary in Indonesia

Nikon announced the establishment of sales and service presence in Indonesia: Nikon Corporation (Makoto Kimura, President) is pleased to announce the establishment of P.T. Nikon Indonesia in Jakarta. This new sales and service subsidiary will be launched to fortify sales of imaging products, beginning with digital cameras, and to enhance after-sales service in Indonesia. Operations […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #201

Nikon SB-910 flash is now available for $439 at DigitalRev (compared to $546.95). New Nikon Prostaff 3 fieldscope announced ($329.95). Apple Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update v4.04 released with Nikon D5200 support. Micrographs of the sensor inside the Nikon D2H camera. The Nikon Wireless Mobile Adapter Utility is not available for download on Google Play […]

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Guest post: Panning, non-action and non-tele shots in sport photography

Hello there. This is Ryu Voelkel and Matt Cohen and we are sports photographers based in Berlin, Germany and Oakland, California respectively. We won’t get into who lives in a better city, but we have been given an opportunity by NR to do a post on sports photography. On our sports photography website/podcast called Big Lens Fast Shutter, we educate […]

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Sony is rumored to announce a new 20MP APS-C sensor

In the next few weeks Sony will announce a new 20MP APS-C sensor in their upcoming a58 camera. It remains to be seen if Nikon will decide to use this sensor in one of their future DX models. For now, the D7000 replacement is rumored to have a 24MP sensor. Out of the four Nikon […]

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The new Nikkor AF-S 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lens

Nikon announced the 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR lens back in July of 2012. After the official release last week, I still could not find any sample images from the new lens on the Web except the three photos on Nikon’s website and the few old images from the 2012 Olympics.

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Nikon cuts their annual profit forecast

Today Nikon released their third quarter financial results and financial estimation for the year ending March 31, 2013. Here is the recap from Bloomberg: Camera price declines prompted a cut in Nikon’s annual profit forecast. Junichi Itoh, Nikon’s CFO said this: “Tough competition for entry-level single-lens-reflex models has led to a large price decline since […]

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New: Prime Circle XT-F cine-style lenses with Nikon F-Mount by LockCircle

LockCircle announced a new set of Prime Circle XT-F cine-style lenses with Nikon F-mount based on the Zeiss ZF.2 product line. Here are the Prime-Circle XT-F lens highlights:

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Refurbished Nikon DSLR cameras

Those are some of the refurbished Nikon cameras currently available at different retailers: Refurbished Nikon gear at B&H (see full list here): Nikon D3200 + kit lens (red) Nikon D600 for $1,699 Nikon D800 for $2,499.95 *best deal Refurbished Nikon gear at Adorama (see full list here) Nikon D600 for $1,699.00 Nikon D800 for $2,599.99 Nikon D800E for $2,899.95 Nikon […]

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