If you are still following and interested in product awards, you should know that today Nikon won three 2021 TIPA World Awards together with pretty much any other camera/lens company out there: Best Full-Frame Camera, Advanced: Nikon Z6 II Best Full-Frame Camera, Expert: Nikon Z7 II Best Wide-Angle Zoom Lens: Nikon NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S The full […]
A Dpreview forum member published a quick review of the Kipon tilt adapter for Nikon F-mount lens to Nikon Z mirrorless camera (Kipon Tilt NIK-N/Z): “Construction of the adapter is excellent though the tilt and rotation lock feel a little delicate. Tilt is only in one direction with a maximum tilt of 11 degrees […]
Arkadii Shapoval (blog | 500px | see also his previous NR posts) reviewed the Meike MK 85mm f/1.8 AF full-frame lens for Nikon F-mount – here are the pros and the cons:
Nikon released their financial results for the 2021 fiscal year ending March 31, 2021 – here is the recap: Revenue ¥451.2B (down ¥139.8B) Imaging Products revenue decreased by ¥75.0B Operating Profit: -¥56.2B (down ¥62.9B) Nikon sales in units by product category: Summary for the year ended March 31, 2021:
ON1 released Photo RAW 2021.5 (free for current ON1 Photo RAW 2021 owners) that includes fully customizable keyboard shortcuts, more fine-tuning slider controls, re-editing capabilities between the included Lightroom plugins (Effects, Portrait AI, Resize, HDR), improved batch processing, the ability to sync presets and extras with Cloud Sync, support for external control surfaces like Stream Deck, […]
CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their camera production data for March 2021 (orange: 2021, black: 2020, blue: 2019, click for larger view):
There is no way for me to confirm that, but I got a tip that Nikon has discontinued their pension plan for their employees in the US. I was told that Nikon employees who haven’t turned 65 were offered a lump-sum buyout. Nikon will no longer offer a pension plan for their US employees (a […]
