Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Nikon’s official statement on the flooding in Thailand

By [NR] admin | Published: October 11, 2011

This is Nikon’s statement on the flooding in Thailand: Nikon (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a consolidated subsidiary of Nikon Corporation in the Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya Province located in Central Thailand, is submerged by the flood caused by torrential rainfall since last July.

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Thailand flooding reaches Nikon’s factories

By [NR] admin | Published: October 10, 2011

I already mentioned about the flooding threat for Nikon factories in Thailand over the weekend. Today Bloomberg reported that Nikon’s factories are “swamped”:

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Clarification on my last Nikon price increase post

By [NR] admin | Published: October 9, 2011

Several readers have emailed me about my post from Friday on the upcoming Nikon price increase starting on October 16th. I just want to clarify that Nikon will not be raising their prices. They will just start enforcing their MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) policy which will lead to a price increase for certain products in […]

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Another Nikon price increase in the US?

By [NR] admin | Published: October 7, 2011

Read also my update to this post. So far, I have received two separate emails from two different major US retailers indicating a price increase on all Nikon products starting on October 12th (or 16th), 2011. I have removed the store names in order to protect my sources. If you have planned to buy something […]

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Nikon’s Facebook response

By [NR] admin | Published: September 29, 2011

This is Nikon’s Facebook response to their statement from yesterday that “a photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses“:

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NikonRumors.com will be down for maintenance tonight

By [NR] admin | Published: September 24, 2011

One dedicated server can no longer handle the NikonRumors traffic. My hosting company will be adding a second server tonight. Two servers with a front-end load balancer should be able to handle the expected traffic spike for the D800/D4 announcement (whenever that would be). Tonight at 11:00 pm (EST) NikonRumors.com will be down for approximately […]

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After “I AM COMING” meet the “THE BIG HANDS”

By [NR] admin | Published: September 20, 2011

Those post cards were received today in Europe with links to the website thebighands.com. The speculation is that the sender is Nikon, especially since they have done something similar in the past. Now I want to hear all the “Big hands” jokes 🙂 The first two “Big hands” videos are already on YouTube:

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