Monthly Archives: August 2022

Lexar announces the world’s fastest CFExpress Type A Gold series memory card and a new CFExpress Type A/SD card reader

Today Lexar announced the world’s fastest CFExpress Type A Gold series memory card and a new CFExpress Type A/SD card reader: CFexpress Type A Card GOLD Series For photographers and videographers who demand superior performance with transfer speeds of up to 900MB/s read1 Transfer speeds up to 900MB/s read, 800MB/s write, and minimum write speed […]

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First Nikon MC-CF660G CFexpress Type B memory card benchmark

A Chinese blogger published the first Nikon MC-CF660G CFexpress Type B memory card benchmark on Weibo (the new card is currently in stock at Adorama, Amazon, and B&H). Here are the  benchmark results:

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Weekly Nikon news flash #688

New Nikon Z9 classes with Steve Simon: Nikon Z9 New York City Mentorship Masterclass (September 16-18, 2022) Nikon Z9 Vancouver Mentorship Masterclass (August 19-21, 2022) → Many Viltrox Z-mount lenses (and other products) are currently on sale at Rollei in Germany (this offer is ending on August 8th). → DxO released PureRAW version 2.1 with Apple […]

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Nikon Speedlight SB-500 flash orders temporary suspended, Speedlight SB-5000 available for purchase

Nikon Japan issued a new press notice indicating that orders of the Speedlight SB-500 flash are temporarily suspended. The Nikon Speedlight SB-5000 flash should be available for purchase. Most Nikon Speedlight flashes have been for a while and are currently out of stock in the US (check Adorama and B&H). As I already mentioned last […]

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Adorama expected the Nikon Z9 to be in stock on August 11

Update: it seems that this was a mistake and Adroma has updated their Z9 listing. Adorama has updated their website and now they expect the Nikon Z9 to be in stock (or to start shipping if ordered today) on August 11: FYI: B&H Photo is currently shipping Nikon Z9 pre-orders placed in January 2022.

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Nikon’s first quarter financial results of the year ending March 2023: revenue and profits are up

Nikon reported its first quarter financial results of the year ending March 2023. Both revenue and profits are up. Here is the Q1 financial results summary:

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35 Nikon Nikkor F-mount DSLR lenses discontinued

In the past few months, I have been reporting about all the discontinued Nikon F-mount products. AP has been tracking the availability of Nikkor F-mount (DSLR) lenses and concluded that over the last three years Nikon has discontinued 35 F-mount lenses. Here is the list:

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