The Nikon Olympic embassy built in the heart of Soviet Russia by Stephen Dowling: In 1980, Nikon had a new SLR to unveil to the world, and the best possible arena to show it off in – the Olympic Games. The camera was the third F-mount SLR Nikon unleashed upon the world, following 1959’s Nikon […]
Nikkei released the 2019 camera market share – the top five digital camera companies combined had a 93.7% share in 2019 (sales units: 14,830,000 or -22.4%). The data includes only Japanese companies. Here is the breakdown:
The Nikon Q1 financial results are out and as you can expect they are not good:
CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association in Japan) published their camera production data for June, 2020 (orange: 2020, black: 2019, blue: 2018, click for larger view):
→ Capture One released a new black & white and a film inspired “Beyond” styles packs. → The new LEE85 filter system is now available for pre-order. → New Wimberley tripod mount replacement plates (via DC. Watch): Wimberley AP-500 for the Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR lens: Adorama | B&H Wimberley AP-555 for the Nikkor […]
Transcend will release new CFexpress Type B memory cards in August. Two different models will be available: 256GB and 512GB. Pre-orders are now open: Transcend CFexpress 820 Type B memory card 256GB ($299) Transcend CFexpress 820 Type B memory card 512GB ($449) The Transcend CFexpress Type B memory cards have read speed of up to 1,700MB/s […]
André Krajnik (Website | Blog | Facebook, Instagram) sent me this article about a “pseudo-HDR” technique he uses quite often: putting several almost identical images in one file, each as a separate layer and using layer-masks to make only certain parts of the different images visible. In this past, this technique was used for extending the dynamic […]
