Nikon is currently working on a new camera with a large(-r) sensor to compete with the Canon PowerShot G1X ($799). It’s not clear if Nikon will just use the 1″ sensor from their mirrorless line or they will go with a new 1.5″ sensor similar to the G1X. The current Coolpix P7100 camera has 1/1.7″ CCD sensor. For better illustration, here is a diagram for the different sensor sizes from Wikipedia:
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A member of the German forum dslr-forum.de received his new Nikon D700 camera and noticed that the installed firmware version A was 1.03. The latest officially announced firmware update for the D700 was A/B 1.02. Maybe Nikon is about to release the new 1.03 version?
Nikon D4 is now in stock at OneCall. This also means that they no longer have a waiting list.
Update: the status now says “coming soon“.
Up till now Nikon included a free 16GB Sony XQD card and a reader (aprox. $185 value) with every D4 shipment. This seems no longer to be the case and the last Nikon D4 shipments do not include any freebies.
The other bad news is that so far I have not heard about another major manufacturer to jump on the XQD wagon.
“In April there has been a massive price raise in Hungary that affected several Nikon lenses, for example the Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G AF-S IF ED VR. In March this product cost 139,889 HUF (around 480 Euros) and now it costs 198,990 HUF (around 680 Euros). This is more than 40% increase! I asked one of the vendors what caused this huge increase and they told me that Nikon “normalized” the prices, meaning, that the prices has been synchronized to the Western European price standards. In the same time this lens can be purchased on amazon.de for 500 Euros.”
Nikon announced their financial results and new cash dividends for the year ending on March 31, 2012. The company again reported better than expected financial numbers even after the series of disasters in Asia last year. As a result, the stock price went up over 8%. Nikon remains a profitable company in times where almost every other major camera manufacturer announced losses:
In 1st half, all product groups sold well. In 2nd half, although SLR cameras were affected by Thai floods, new “Nikon 1” launch was successful. Compact camera continued to expand the market share throughout the year. These helped minimize the amount of sales/income reduction from the previous year.
Today was all about the new Leica products but I still have a quick update on the Nikon D600 – I can now raise the probability of the D600 release before Photokina to 80%. Note that some of the specs may still be inaccurate or incomplete.
