Ubertronix Strike Finder lets you take pictures of lightnings, popping balloons and even speeding bullets. Phottix Aion wireless timer and shutter release is now shipping (compatible with Nikon cameras). New book: David Busch’s Nikon Coolpix P7100 Guide to Digital Photography. Nikon D90 now sells for 814.99. My guess is that those are the last shipments. RIP Nikon […]
Nikon filed patent 2011232502 in Japan for a 24-100mm f/1.8-2.6 lens which will probably be used in the Coolpix P300 replacement: The current P300 model has a 24-100mm f/1.8-4.9 equivalent lens.
Time for another update on the latest patent application filed by Nikon: Patent application 20110273577 is for artificial blur enhancement – in other words simulating bokeh without using a fast lens: The blur detecting section detects degree of blur of an image of the second region of the image of the photographic image data. The blur enhancement section performs […]
Bloomberg reports that Intellectual Ventures LLC has sued Nikon for patent infringement on four different digital camera technology patents: “IV said it initially approached Nikon in 2008 about taking a license to the patents. Nikon declined to meet with the technology-licensing company at that time, according to court papers. In 2011, IV said it made […]
Nikon filed a patent 2011197413 in Japan for a 800mm f/5.6 lens: Patent publication: 2011-197413 Patent release date: October 6th, 2011 Patent filing date: March 19, 2010 Focal length: 800.00mm Aperture: 5.61 Image height: 21.60mm Lens design: 16 elements in 14 groups Internal focus Image stabilization The longest telephoto in the current Nikon arsenal is the […]
Sometimes patents provide valuable information about upcoming products. For example the first Nikon mirrorless patent was reported back in August of 2009 (incl. also a patent for the Nikkor 24mm f/1.4). Here are the most interesting Nikon patents filed since the last recap: Nikon filed a patent application (#20110228407) for a 70-200mm f/4 VR II lens: Nikon 18-300mm […]
A patent for the 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 mirrorless lens showed also up in Japan (see US filing): Patent publication: 2011-175098 Published on September 8, 2011 Filed on February 24, 2010 Focal length: 10.3-97.0mm Aperture: 4.6-5.9 Image height: 8mm Lens length: 128.784mm 9.42x zoom ratio One aspherical element Internal zoom Inner focus VR
The Latest Photo Rumors