Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Nikon Rumors giveaway #11: one year PRO subscription for Animoto

What can I win? The Nikon announcement is now over and it’s time for another giveaway where you can win one year PRO subscription to Animoto ($249 value). What is Animoto? Watch this 30 seconds video to find out: And here is a sample video: You can also check sample videos from other photographers, such […]

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Nikon announcement in 12 hours

In approximately 12 hours all Nikon websites should be updated with their latest products. Some other camera manufacturers already made their announcements for the CP+ show. Of interest for Nikon shooters are the new Sigma lenses.

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Nikon 2011 Q3 financial results: “new generation digital cameras are under development”

Nikon’s 2011 Q3 ended on December 31, 2010 and the financial results are now out – sales are up, income is down. Compared to Q3 of 2010, Nikon sold more imaging products in all three categories: 300,000 more  single-lens reflex cameras, 600,000 more interchangeable lenses and 2.3 million more compact cameras.

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Hacking the Digital: Stills in Motion (guest post by Andrew Kornylak)

Today’s guest post is by Andrew Kornylak. You probably remember some of his stop motion videos taken with a Nikon D3 I posted back in 2009. The topis he will cover today is “Hacking the Digital: Stills in Motion”: Before I “became” a professional photographer, I was a software developer. Windows applications, wireless devices, game software, web… […]

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Best Buy adopts Nikon’s internal numbering scheme (Q740, Q750)

Few months back I posted a screenshot from an internal Best Buy message that listed a Nikon product under the code name Q750. The Qxxx notation is an internal Nikon numbering scheme – basically every Nikon DSLR camera has a code name that is different than the actual product name. It was suggested that the Q750 could be the […]

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It happened again: Sony replaced Nikon from the #2 spot in the UK

I have been saying this for a long time and after Taiwan it happened again in the UK: according to AP Sony took the #2 spot from Nikon in the UK in volume sales of interchangeable lens models for December 2010 (Sony now has 25%, Nikon is down to 20%). I don’t think Sony got […]

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Lengthy interview with Nikon at CES 2011, not a single word on future products

If you were wondering what was going on in those Nikon meeting rooms during CES 2011, here is the one and only Nikon report from CES by Imaging-Resource in the form of an interview with Nikon’s Senior Vice President David Lee. Kudos to Imaging-Resource who asked the right questions and tried on several occasions to extract some valuable info […]

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