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Nikon Mirrorless EVIL camera

Interview with Tetsuro Goto

By [NR] admin | Published: January 20, 2010

Mr. Tetsuro Goto is the Director of Laboratory Research and Development at Nikon Japan. Focus-Numerique just published a lengthy and very interesting interview with him (in French | Google translation). Key points & quotes: No medium format from Nikon: “We have no experience in the niche market of medium-format. It may simply be impossible for Nikon […]

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Nikon press conference scheduled for February 3rd, 2010

By [NR] admin | Published: January 18, 2010

Nikon press conference is scheduled for February 3rd, 2010 – I am saying this with 100% confidence. As I mention before, this time I will not specify the country and location. This date also matches with the expected release of new Coolpix cameras on February 2nd. In the past Nikon has not scheduled press conferences for […]

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Nikon EVIL camera again

By [NR] admin | Published: January 14, 2010

Nikon EVIL camera is gaining momentum again. In the past few days I received some reliable information about the existence of this product/project. The official announcement should be this year (Photokina?). No further details or specs at that point. Coincidently, M. Lammerse just mentioned this on dpreview: “My contact expects a new type of Nikon […]

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Will Dr. EVIL knock on Nikon’s door? (Nikon EVIL camera recap)

By [NR] admin | Published: November 11, 2009

No, no that Dr. Evil. I am talking about EVIL camera (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens). There has been a lot of talk lately on that topic. Other companies are not shy of releasing EVIL products left and right, the latest one being the Ricoh GXR, which has a cartridge system that packs the lens and […]

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Nikon patents for this week – Nikon EVIL camera again

By [NR] admin | Published: November 5, 2009

In this post I will use the patent interpretations from a NR reader who has a much better “patents reading abilities” than me: We have another 32 mm f/1.2 lens (for the 17 mm format sensor) which will make a 80 mm equivalent (patent# 20090273851): The same above patent refers to “employable as an interchangeable lens […]

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It’s a Nikon patents Friday (Nikon mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera)

By [NR] admin | Published: October 16, 2009

I’ve been covering Nikon patents for a while. We have seen numerous times that patents for upcoming products are filed before the official release – check this old post: We should pay a very close attention to this patent (Nikon Micro AF-S 85mm f/3.5 DX VR). Of course not every patent will see the light of day. So […]

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More Nikon patents – hint for a mirrorless Nikon camera?

By [NR] admin | Published: August 5, 2009

Nikon filed a bunch of patents at the end of 2008 – here is the patent search result of Nikon + lens. Please note that most of those are just patent applications and may or may not lead to a final production model. The first interesting patent appears to be for a 24mm f/1.4 (application […]

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