Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Nikon is 99 years old today

By [NR] admin | Published: July 25, 2016

Happy birthday to Nikon – the company turns 99 years old today. From Wikipedia:

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Most pros used Nikons to record Apollo 11 blast-off to moon

By [NR] admin | Published: July 21, 2016

47 years ago the Lunar Module ‘The Eagle’ landed on the moon… Most pros used Nikons to record Apollo 11 blast-off to moon When Apollo 11 slowly lifted skyward from Cape Kennedy on its lunar flight, spewing violent clouds of smoke and flame in its wake, more cameras than pairs of eyes seemed to be aimed […]

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Another Nikon price increase is coming to the UK on August 1st

By [NR] admin | Published: July 19, 2016

Another Nikon price increase is coming to the UK on August 1st because of the falling value of the British Pound against the Japanese Yen: From what I understood the price increase will be across the board and will include all Nikon products. The last Nikon price increase in Europe was just few months ago. If […]

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An American View of Havana

By [NR] admin | Published: July 17, 2016
Play Chess

An American View of Havana by Geoff Livingston (Photoshelter | 500px | Flickr): Havana Offers Much More than Cars Cuba offers Americans a forbidden destination. Even in the current era of warming between Havana and Washington, DC, we still need a special visa to visit Cuba. Worse, there is a sense that when all of the barriers finally drop, […]

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Collection of vintage Nikon ads

By [NR] admin | Published: July 15, 2016

Slow news day. Here are several vintage Nikon camera and lens ads from the 1950s and 1960s:

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“Seven reasons why I’m still a Nikon DSLR user” by Thom Hogan

By [NR] admin | Published: July 12, 2016

Thom Hogan published a new post: “Seven reasons why I’m still a Nikon DSLR user“. I encourage you to read the entire article, especially if you are thinking about switching to a mirrorless system. Here are Thom’s seven main reasons for shooting with Nikon DSLR cameras:

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From Snowy Mountains to Tropical Rainforest (part 2)

By [NR] admin | Published: June 25, 2016
An Oriental Whipsnake taken with a macro ringflash and the Sigma 150mm.

From Snowy Mountains to Tropical Rainforest (part 2) by Des Ong (website | Facebook | Instagram) – see also his previous [NR] articles It is hard to believe that it’s been a year since Part 1 of this article was published. My traveling schedule is usually back-to-back between destinations during winter and early spring. It wasn’t that […]

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