Nikon D4 picture: real or fake?

By [NR] admin | Published: December 30, 2011

There are many photoshopped images of the Nikon D4 out there. Is this one of them? Your guess is as good as mine. For reference, a picture of the D3s: Read More »

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Interview with Mark Miller – the person who rode the bike in the Nikon D800 commercial

By [NR] admin | Published: December 29, 2011

MotoPod podacst #300 from December 19th, 2011 (also available on iTunes) has an interview with Mark Miller who rode the motorcycle in the Nikon D800 commercial shot in Chicago. The actual interview starts at the 2:28:28 mark – very interesting stuff about the actual commercial movie and how it was shot.

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Nikon D3100 is the best selling DSLR camera in Japan for 2011

By [NR] admin | Published: December 28, 2011

BCNranking published their sales statistics and the best selling DSLR camera in Japan for 2011 is the Nikon D3100 with a 9.7% sales share.

Nikon D3100 is currently the #5 top selling DSLR camera on Amazon.

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Nikon D3 on the ISS

By [NR] admin | Published: December 28, 2011

The above video is an interview with astronaut Mike Fossum about the images he took on board of the ISS with a Nikon D3 camera. Here is the actual timelapse video:

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Nikon press conference on January 6th, 2012 in Thailand

By [NR] admin | Published: December 28, 2011

Nikon will have a press conference in Nikon’s headquarters in Thailand on January 6th, 2012 under the slogan “The image you are waiting for“. I already mentioned that Nikon will announce the D4 and a new AF-S 85mm f/1.8G lens on January 6th, 2012. There is also a chance that some of the other upcoming Nikon products on this list might be announced for the 2012 PMA show.

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Nikon D5100 unofficial “StarWars” theme firmware now available

By [NR] admin | Published: December 26, 2011

After Nikon’s firmware was successfully decrypted, we now have the first unofficial “StarWars” firmware update for the Nikon D5100. The new beta firmware includes only changes of the camera’s menu labels:

  • Holocron – Playback menu
  • Weapon System – Shooting menu
  • Super Stardestroyer – Custom Setting menu
  • Hyperdrive – Setup Menu
  • Go to Dagobah Luke – Format Memory Card
  • Death Star Codes – Firmware Version
  • A Jedi? – Update? (new update screen)
  • (help: StarWars v1.01)
  • The Cantina – Retouch Menu
  • My Menu – unchanged
  • Dark side of force! – Subject is too dark
  • Light side of force! – Subject is too light
 

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Weekly Nikon news flash #142

By [NR] admin | Published: December 25, 2011

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Compatibility issues with NIK Color Efex Pro after installing Nikon Capture NX2 v2.3.0

By [NR] admin | Published: December 24, 2011

Several readers reported issues with their NIK Color Efex Pro software after installing the latest version 2.3.0 of Nikon Capture NX. The new Color Efex Pro 4 will not work with Capture NX v2.3.0 (source):

Does Color Efex Pro 4 work in Capture NX 2?

The Capture NX 2 software from Nikon does not support Nik Software’s new Color Efex Pro 4 plug-in. Color Efex Pro 4 is built on an entirely new and powerful framework and thus requires certain functions of the plug-in architecture of the host application that are not currently present in Captures NX 2.

If you are a current Color Efex Pro 3.0 customer, you can of course continue to enjoy the benefits of that software with Capture NX 2.

Regarding plans to make the two products work together, the effort to update Color Efex Pro 4 to function within Capture NX 2 relies on Nikon’s future plans and development for their photo editing software. Nik Software is not privy to those plans.

NIK Software is working on a solution to fix the compatibility issue with older Color Efex Pro 3 version. Here is an email sent from Nik Software support team to a reader (Google translation):

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