Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Why Nikon D3xs?

I received those pictures two days ago and decided not post them online because I did not see any convincing evidence that the pictured camera is a Nikon D3xs – it could be any of the D3-D3x-D3s line with black tape over the logo and model. The story goes, that this person was testing some kind […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 187 Comments

Nikon sales by product: past (2010) vs. estimated (2011)

Those are the “Sales by product” charts for Nikon’s financial year that just ended and the estimated numbers for the next year (March 2010 vs March 2011): Update: the percentage graph could be misleading – here are the actual numbers (March 2010/March 2011): I/L stays for Interchangeable Lenses, SLR-DSC is for SLR/DSLR and C-DSC stays for compact cameras. This […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 50 Comments

Nikon’s financial results for the last fiscal year are out

Nikon reported a net loss of Y12.62 billion, compared to a year-earlier profit of Y28.06 billion. Operating loss of Y13.85 billion against a profit of Y48.18 billion a year earlier. Sales fell 11% to Y785.50 billion from Y879.72 billion. Nikon’s digital camera business picked up, however, contributing to a 30% increase in operating profit from […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 154 Comments

Flashback from 1998: Navy SEALs training with mysterious Nikon underwater digital camera

This is an interesting story because when I tried to research this underwater digital camera (Nikon DCS 425) I could hardly find any info online. It seems that this model was produced for the US military/intelligence organizations and initially even its existence was denied: “The Nikonos RS was the World’s first underwater SLR camera, capable of going down to a […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| Tagged | 84 Comments

Popular Photography’s “great new DSLR” rumor busted

The “great new DSLR” rumor from last week is busted – Popular Photography featured a Canon T2i on the front cover. They also published a full test of the  Nikon 24mm f/1.4 lens.

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 208 Comments

NikonRumors turns 2 today

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 […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| 130 Comments

Nikon UK surveys medium format cameras

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 […]

Posted in Other Nikon stuff| Tagged | 64 Comments