With the recent RED acquisition, we already know that Nikon is planning to gain a significant portion of the existing video market. We also got several reports about Nikon actively developing Nikkor cinema lenses:
- I first reported back in March that Nikon will start making cinema lenses for Z mount with T stops.
- Keiji Oishi (RED’s new CEO) on a new line of Nikkor cinema lenses: “In the future, we would like to take these different approaches into consideration for an additional cinema lens lineup if we have a chance”.
- From a recent interview with Nikon/RED: “Nikon is actively considering developing Nikkor cinema lenses”.
Here are two leaked pictures of what appears to be a new Nikkor 28-135mm power zoom lens:
There is also this Nikon Nikkor cinema lens drawing, probably from a recent patent application:
