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

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 […]

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

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 […]
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:
This guest post on Dark Frame Subtraction was written by Paul Marchant: It is often true that some of the best ideas come from end users that feed the product roadmap get features implemented. Two worthy ideas for consideration are: Self calibration of dark frame subtraction for noise reduction Exporting calibrated dark frame images for raw post […]