Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Nikon’s new zoom/focus assist lever NAL-1

With the D5300 announcement, Nikon also introduced a new zoom/focus assist lever called NAL-1 “that enables smoother zooming and focusing when attached to the zoom ring or focus ring on a NIKKOR lens“. Pricing and availability are not yet announced.

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Another possibility for tomorrow’s announcement: new Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 lens

Update: the posts referring the AF-S Nikkor 58mm f/1.4G lens were removed from Pixelistes website shortly after my post. The admin of the French forum Pixelistes mentioned few days ago that he held in his hands a new full frame Nikon lens that will be announced in the next few days. In another post later last week he […]

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Back online

I will be catching up on the latest Nikon stories in the next few days.

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Offline for two weeks

Due to unexpected family emergency I will be offline in the next two week. I will try to post updates and reply to emails when possible.

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Guest post: In Motion – The Art of Drifting

This guest post is by Armin H. Ausejo (websites: arminausejo.com | arminweddings.com | Twitter | Facebook, click on images for larger view): Motorsports, in some form or another, has been around for more than a century, and of course documenting motorsports through photography has been around for just as long. While motorsports generally involves competing to […]

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Chinese smart phones producer BBK rumored to start using Nikon Expeed image processor in their devices

The Chinese mobile phone producer BBK Electronics is rumored to announce a new Vivo phablet equipped with 20MP camera (1/1.7″ sensor), fast f/2.0 lens and Expeed image processor: “The professional image processing chip used is Nikon’s Expeed E1-158 1051 200 M, which could be a slightly modified version of the old Expeed 3 ARM processor introduced in 2011 with the Nikon […]

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Nikon Coolpix P7800 camera to start shipping tomorrow

Update: the Nikon P7800 is now in stock. The Nikon Coolpix P7800 camera that was announced in early September is scheduled to start shipping tomorrow. The P7800 user manual is now available for download here: Nikon Coolpix P7800 hands-on video:

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