Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

NikonRumors turns 2 today

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

Exactly 2 years ago I posted several small messages online on upcoming Nikon products. This is how NikonRumors started. Today, on the second anniversary, we have 1,212  posts, 56,170 comments and… 24,296 spam messages. Over the past two years we had few million visitors form 225 countries/territories. I did receive several thousand emails from readers with […]

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Nikon UK surveys medium format cameras

By [NR] admin | Published: April 30, 2010

Nikon UK has an ongoing phone survey to professional photographers. The first few questions are about the type of photography and the exact current equipment each of the targeted photographers are using and then… a bunch of questions on medium format, cameras, backs, lenses, etc… This interest in medium format could be based on the […]

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Fellow Canadians, you may see lower Nikon prices on Monday

By [NR] admin | Published: April 27, 2010

The rumor is that Nikon will lower the prices of some products in Canada on Monday May 3, 2010. Just like last time (Nov 15th, 2009) this could be an adjustment to the currency exchange rate. I cannot give any ratings to this rumor for now since I am waiting on additional information.

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“A great new DSLR” next month

By [NR] admin | Published: April 25, 2010

I bought the May issue of Popular Photography online and found this note on page 6: Of course it is not clear what manufacturer will be releasing the new DLSR, but Canon or Nikon will be high on the list (Sony is too busy with the release of their EVIL system next month, Pentax and […]

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Nikon’s new President: Nikon will not have the same stable growth in the next ten years

By [NR] admin | Published: April 19, 2010

Some top level changes happened in the Nikon’s top executive level today. See the official details here and here. The new company’s President Makoto Kimura (62) said this in a press conference in Tokyo today (via Reuters): “Nikon’s imaging business has been expanding quite steadily over the past 10 years. But can it enjoy the […]

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Nikon Rumors giveaway #8

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

Update: the giveaway is now closed. The winners will be picked on the forum and I will announce them later on the blog. In this giveaway you can win a Nikon D700 or a Nikon D3s/D3x book by David Busch (bibliography). The rules are again simple – just leave a comment to this blog post […]

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Low stores inventory

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

Multiple reports from small and big stores in the US about low inventory on many products (new and old models). No reason to panic, this is probably due to the current ongoing instant rebate program combined with Nikon’s yearly inventory count that suspended all product deliveries to dealers for 10 days. Expect most of the missing […]

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