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Weekly Nikon news flash #134

Check out this product called “JerkStopper” 🙂 New Nikon store opened in Romania: Nikon 1 V1 made the #6 on the Amazon’s best selling compact system cameras: HP shutdown of webOS division is “imminent“. WSJ: “The Japanese government said Friday it will implement an extraordinary open-door policy to thousands of Thai workers employed at Japanese factories rendered inoperable by […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #133

New spotting scope adapter from Kenko (see this related guest post from few days ago): Check Amazon for pricing Several photography websites were invited to visit the Nikon 1 factory in China. They were not allowed to take pictures and could only publish images given to them by Nikon: Nikon lenses explained: Non-AI, AI, AI-S, and […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #132

$75 rebate on the Tamron AF 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD AF lens (Nikon mount). Tokina 17-35mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro FX lens (Nikon mount) is now in stock. Samples can be found here. This free iPhone/iPod app provides a simple and easy way to browse NikonRumors.com and other photography blogs. Nikon 1 J1 and V1 […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #131

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4G ED VR lens now in stock. Two new rumored Distagon lenses from Zeiss: 16mm f/2.8 and 25mm f/2. Winners of the 37th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition were announced. US press release: Nikon Continues To Help Emerging Photographers Gain Valuable Career Experience At Barnstorm XXIV. Nikon’s Thailand plant under […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #130

Nikon 85mm f/1.4 lens now in stock. The Sigma APO 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM lens will start shipping in October, 2011. Price is still unknown. New iPhone apps: DSLR Mega HD contains  guides for 11 different Nikon DSLRs; Nikon Lens Buddy has info for 155 Nikon, Sigma, Tamron and Tokina lenses for Nikon DSLRs. Another Nikon mirrorless camera concept. Lightroom […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #129

With the Nikon 1 announcement this week, there was not much else going on in Nikon’s world: MyShutterCount will tell you how many times you “clicked” your digital camera. A reader sent me a screenshots as a proof that his Nikon D2x clicked 691,701 times and is still going. Can someone beat this? Check also this website for camera […]

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Weekly Nikon news flash #128

The 14 most influential cameras of all time (Nikon F and D100 made the list). Canon is planning a “historic global announcement” on November 3rd and another one on September 22nd, a day after Nikon’s. Another Nikon event in Bulgaria on September 21st (posted by Photosynthesis who is Nikon’s distributor for that country). Another “white” […]

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