Monthly Archives: November 2017

A Nikon D850 review for wildlife and nature photographers by Steve Perry

This Nikon D850 review is written by Steve Perry (website | YouTube | Facebook, you can check also his previous NR posts here): A Nikon D850 Review For Wildlife And Nature Photographers As a professional nature photographer, I’ve frequently entertained thoughts about what the “ideal” camera might look like for my work. Right off the bat, I’d want a camera […]

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New Ihagee Elbaflex film SLR with Nikon F-mount coming to Kickstarter next week

A new Ihagee Elbaflex film SLR with Nikon F-mount will be launched next week on Kickstarter. Ihagee is an old German brand and somebody is trying to bring it back to life on Kickstarter (just like the recent Yashica, Oprema Jena, Meyer Optik, Emil Busch crowdfunding projects). Here are the details: Update: additional information on this Kickstarter project can […]

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Large shipment of Nikon D850 cameras hitting US stores this week

I was told that a large shipment of Nikon D850 cameras is hitting US stores this week. Based on input from readers, Amazon is currently shipping D850 pre-orders placed at the end of September. The Nikon D850 Amazon listing now says “Temporarily out of stock” instead of the previous “Shipping in 2-4 months”. It seems that the current […]

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Nikon’s stock is up

Just a quick update: Nikon’s stock is up since they announced their Q2 financial results two days ago. Here is the last 5 days chart (for comparison the last time they reported bad news in February 2017, the stock went down 15% – it hit 1300, now it’s at 2350): Next is the 3 months chart:

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Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR 100th anniversary edition lens unboxing

The Romanian photograph Zoltán Nagy (website, Instagram, Facebook) recently won the Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR 100th anniversary edition lens in a local Nikon competition. This is his report, winning photos and unboxing pictures (the lens is priced at $3,999.95 in the US but is still not available):

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Update on the rumored Nikon Coolpix P900 replacement

Nokishita recently published a full list of cameras and lenses already registered with various government agencies but not yet officially announced. Nikon currently has only one new camera registered (N1622) together with the upcoming N16F1 remove control. I believe this N1622 registration is for the rumored Nikon Coolpix P900 replacement. As Nokishita already reported, the camera was scheduled to […]

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Nikon’s Q2 financial results are out

Today Nikon released their financial results for the second quarter of their financial year (ending March 2018). Here are the slides relevant to the Imaging Business (click for larger view):

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