Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Nikon P6000 starting to disappear – is Nikon P7000 coming soon?

By [NR] admin | Published: August 19, 2009

Today Canon announced the PowerShot G11 – the surprise: 10MP sensor, lower resolution than the previous G10 model. Maybe the pixel war is over and finally Nikon will get some serious competition 🙂 Back to Nikon Rumors: the top of the line Nikon P6000 p&s camera is starting to disappear from online retailers, even from […]

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Finally: Nikon Fabre Photo EX microscope available for purchase

By [NR] admin | Published: August 17, 2009

In February 2009 Nikon announced the Fabre Photo EX microscope which now offers a DSLR attachment (the previous model Nikon EZ-Micro Stereoscopic Microscope could only take a Coolpix camera). The product was not announced in the US and it seems that nobody from Nikon support have heard of it. I had dozens of people asking […]

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Nikon forecasts a record annual loss

By [NR] admin | Published: August 5, 2009

Nikon posted its quarterly results today: Quarterly Loss: 4 billion yen in the first quarter ended June 30 (compared to 18 billion yen profit a year ago). Net loss for 2010 (estimate): 28 billion yen ($295 million) Nikon raised its revenue by 4% to 710 billion yen Source | Nikon.com financial materials Coming up next: more […]

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Nikon & Ritz camera (science fiction essay, part 2)

By [NR] admin | Published: July 31, 2009

Disclaimer – since this post involves the finances of a publicly traded company, I want to clarify that this is a science fiction essay that may or may not be the truth or the real representation of the facts. Do not make any decisions or judgments based on this post or anything else in this blog. […]

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Is the new Ritz camera chain now 50% owned by Nikon?

By [NR] admin | Published: July 28, 2009

I already reported the news that David Ritz bought Ritz Camera stores at bankruptcy auction. At the same time I received the first report on this topic and initially did not pay much attention to it. Then a NikonRumors reader wrote this comment on one of the posts: “A friend of mine, who works at a […]

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Leaked Nikon roadmap poll

By [NR] admin | Published: July 9, 2009

I received an email from someone that claims that the leaked Nikon 2009-2010 roadmap was a joke between friends. I have no way to verify this information – it could also be that this person did not realize the significance of this rumor and now is trying to cover it up. I don’t know, but […]

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Some more digging on the leaked Nikon roadmap

By [NR] admin | Published: July 8, 2009

I do realize the consequences for Nikon if the leaked roadmap is real. I just want to emphasize on the fact that the leak came from the Czech forum grafika.cz (here is the exact translated link again). NikonRumors and many other sites consecutively picked on that news. The post in question came from an unregistered […]

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