“Nikon will introduce soon a high res FF. Today I had a chat with a friend of mine that owns the biggest local photo retailer and he told me that … all photo retailers here cannot place orders for D3 anymore.”
What? Can someone who owns a shop confirm that? Hard to believe.
The Nikon Photo Contest International has been held by Nikon since 1969. The application period is from September 1st till November 30th 2008. More info on how to apply can be found here.
Grand Prize:
Nikon Digital SLR Camera D3
AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm F2.8G ED
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm F2.8G ED
Good luck!
I don’t take this seriously since the #1 top tech flop is the new Google G1 phone, the MacBook Air is #3, and Blue-Ray is #4. Nikon D90 is #6.
I believe all of those technologies will prevail and will be with us for a while.
I received those 2 pictures today with the text “Nikon D400 is new 24.4 MP body will be released on
November 20th.” The email was sent from outside the US (do not want to mention the country, just in case this turns out to be real).
The original EXIF data (included after each picture) indicates that those snapshots were taken with a camera phone Nokia N70 on July 25, 2008 (?). I doubt that a camera phone will have such a debt of field – take a look at the text on the box. In addition the box says Mac OS 10.4.x, we are now up to 10.5.5. Adobe Photoshop CS2 was used as well?
I am 99% sure those are fake, but I will still publish them for the 1% chance that they may be real. If nothing else, I found those entertaining. They did a good job on the “4” – see the D40 label here.
NikonD400box.jpg – EXIF Information
– Exif
Make Nokia
Model N70-1
Orientation top, left side
X Resolution 1/72 inches
Y Resolution 1/72 inches
Resolution Unit Inches
Software Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
Date/Time 2008:11:05 11:00:49
YCbCr Positioning Center of pixel array
Exposure Time 22201/1000000 sec
F-Number F3.2
ISO Speed Ratings 80
Exif Version 2.20
Date/Time Original 2008:07:25 13:50:10
Date/Time Digitized 2008:07:25 13:50:10
Components Configuration YCbCr
Shutter Speed Value 1/32 sec
Aperture Value F3.2
Light Source Unknown
Flash No flash fired
Focal Length 4.5 mm
FlashPix Version 1.00
Color Space sRGB
Exif Image Width 636 pixels
Exif Image Height 473 pixels
Compression JPEG compression
Thumbnail Offset 666 bytes
Thumbnail Length 5562 bytes
Thumbnail Data [5562 bytes of thumbnail data]
NikonD400body.jpg – EXIF Information
– Exif
Make Nokia
Model N70-1
Orientation top, left side
X Resolution 1/72 inches
Y Resolution 1/72 inches
Resolution Unit Inches
Software Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
Date/Time 2008:11:05 11:27:53
YCbCr Positioning Center of pixel array
Exposure Time 59213/1000000 sec
F-Number F3.2
ISO Speed Ratings 125
Exif Version 2.20
Date/Time Original 2008:07:25 13:48:06
Date/Time Digitized 2008:07:25 13:48:06
Components Configuration YCbCr
Shutter Speed Value 1/16 sec
Aperture Value F3.2
Light Source Unknown
Flash No flash fired
Focal Length 4.5 mm
FlashPix Version 1.00
Color Space sRGB
Exif Image Width 650 pixels
Exif Image Height 488 pixels
Compression JPEG compression
Thumbnail Offset 666 bytes
Thumbnail Length 4528 bytes
Thumbnail Data [4528 bytes of thumbnail data]
According to a Nikon rep, we should soon see a new firmware update for the SB-900 flash unit. The new firmware is suppose to have a fix for the temperature cut-off problem. This problem was reported on several forums already – basically the thermal cut-off is set too low and the flash can be cut-off when you need it most.
Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.3 was just release by Apple. The supported cameras now include:
Update: Google explains how the political ads got to this blog.
Several readers emailed me about a political ad that was running on NR – “Yes on 8” which would eliminate same-sex couples’ right to marry in California.
Contextual advertising means that ads should be pushed based on specific keywords found on a web page. My guess is that somewhere on NR there is a text with the keywords “yes”, “on” and “8” which triggered that ad (this post may trigger the ad again – I still do not have a link in order to block it).
I do not have a way to select which ads are running on NR. I can only block certain sites, so if you see a banner that doesn’t belong here, please sent me an email with the link.
To be fair and to balance things out, I will create my own ad:
VOTE NO ON 8
Now everyone should be happy!
In order to prevent this to happen in the future, I have included a survey which should help advertisers to push the correct ads to NikonRumors. The survey will be available for a while in the top navigation bar. I would appreciate it if you fill it out – it takes only a minute.
On the positive site, Nikon is also advertising on NR:
But then, almost everyone here is a Nikon fan and we may not be the best target audience for Nikon marketing.
I am sorry if I have offended someone – this was not my intend.
Don’t forget to vote!
