Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Do you want to be a guest blogger on NikonRumors?

By [NR] admin | Published: November 11, 2010

I am going to try something new – I will start featuring guest posts on NikonRumors. If you have an interesting Nikon related topic, drop me an email and we will talk. The trick is that the topic has to be about something interesting and unique. Explaining the difference between FX and DX for example will not […]

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And the winner is…

By [NR] admin | Published: November 9, 2010

The winner of the 10th NR giveaway for a Think Tank Photo Retrospective Lens Changer 3 (Pinestone) bag is Trisha M. Congratulations! There were 4466 entries for this giveaway. I selected the winner by running a SQL script on the database that randomly picked one of the 4466 comments (I also made sure there were no duplicate […]

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Nikon launches global NPS website

By [NR] admin | Published: November 9, 2010

Today Nikon launched new global NPS (Nikon Professional Services) website located at http://nps.nikonimaging.com.

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Is f/1.4 at ISO 200 really f/1.4 at ISO 200?

By [NR] admin | Published: November 6, 2010

Luminous-landscape has a very interesting article on how camera manufacturers are silently increasing the ISO in order to compensate for light loss from the lens. The whole analysis is based on data from DxOMark: The above graph show the light loss at the sensor level for different Canon and Nikon cameras when using a f/1.4 lens wide […]

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Nikon cuts profit forecast because of a stronger yen

By [NR] admin | Published: November 4, 2010

Today Nikon published their latest financial results. They cut the full year profit forecast from ¥52 to ¥48 billion because of a stronger yen. Nikon Imaging is doing good – Executive Vice President Ichiro Terato said this referring to the camera division: “If it were not for the effect of exchange rates, we would have achieved a […]

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3D digital photo frame Nikon NF-300i

By [NR] admin | Published: November 3, 2010

Many readers are still emailing me about Nikon’s new NF-300i 3D photo frame. I guess my previous post was mainly targeted at the new Picturetown 3D service, even though the new 3D photo frame is part of this service and was mentioned in my post. Here are some more details on the Nikon NF-300i photo frame. […]

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Nikon WT-4 firmware update to be released soon

By [NR] admin | Published: November 1, 2010

I received a tip that a firmware update of Nikon’s WT-4 Wireless Transmitter is due in the next week or so. It seems that the last version had problems transferring profiles to the camera when using the latest Mac OSX (10.6.4). Nikon’s Wireless Transmitter WT-4 enables image transfer and camera control from a remote computer. The […]

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