→ New Atomos Ninja RAW 5.2″ HDMI monitor/recorder announced.
→ You can now buy rail hot-shoe covers in Japan – “toritetsu” or train hobby photography is very popular in Japan.
→ Interesting: Nikon let the D7 and D9 trademarks expire, but not the D8.
→ The real story behind the Nikon lens patent dispute with Viltrox:
“It’s worthwhile clearing up some of the misapprehensions that have appeared in the photographic press concerning this case. One such is that Nikon has sued Viltrox for infringing the ‘Z-mount patent’. There is no singular ‘Z-mount patent’. Patents (apart from design patents) protect an invention or idea, not a particular product. A patent is a contract between an inventor and a state, whereby a monopoly of use of an invention is given for a period in exchange for making public how it works. The idea is that the common good is served by this disclosure in terms of development of technology, which would not happen were the investor to simply keep the idea secret.” (souce: AP)
→ Nikon will take part in the 2026 Photography and Video Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham (March 14-17).
→ I am not sure I have reported this on the site before – Nikon has a new “Frontiers of Vision” page where they cover many of the company’s “epoch-making” products.
→ Ricci on the new Nikon NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S II lens: autofocus, sharpness, teleconverter tests.
