→ New book: Mastering the Nikon D7100. → The new Sigma USB dock for Nikon mount is now in stock. → The Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM lens for Nikon is delayed again. The new shipping date is September 25 2013. → Rare Nikon 300mm T2.2 lens listed on eBay. → Instant savings on third party F-mount lenses: […]
After Nikon lowered their future full-year forecast, the company’s stock plunged to its lowest level in 19 months: “The Tokyo-based company plummeted 14 percent to 1,726 yen in Tokyo trading, the lowest close since January 2012. The stock has lost 32 percent this year, compared with a 33 percent gain for the broader Topix index.”
Nikon published their latest financial results and cut their future full-year forecast due to disappointing mirrorless cameras (Nikon 1) sales. The Nikon Imaging division now expects to sell 6.55 million units instead of the previously planned 7.1 million. The operating profit forecast was also cut to 65 billion yen from the previously projected 85 billion yen. Nikon blamed US and […]
Nikon released firmware update 1.1 for the Nikon Coolpix P7100 compact camera. This comes as a surprise to me, since the P7100 has been discontinued (and replaced by the P7700) for a while and Nikon is not big on releasing firmware updates for older products. Here is the list of modifications:
In a recent interview at Nikon’s headquarters, the company’s president Makoto Kimura raised concerns about falling sales of compact cameras due to the growing market share of smart phones: “The number of people taking snapshots is exploding by use of smartphones that sold 750 million or so last year and are still growing. We’ve centralized our ideas […]
Last weekend I posted a link in the weekly recap that Nikon D7100 firmware has been decoded by Vitaliy Kiselev who found out that the camera can output LiveView RAW video. At the same time Simeon Pilgrim posted a short video demo of the “Live View Silent Raw” recording on a Nikon D7000 camera:
Nikon published this new video that gives gives an inside look of the design process of various Nikon products (unfortunately I cannot embed the video on the blog, so you have to watch it on this link). The design team goes after the product roadmap created by the marketing team:
