Nikon Z7 Louis Vuitton edition (probably fake)
The Nikon Z7 camera is now listed as discontinued (“old product”) on the official Nikon Japan website (direct link to the product listing):
The Nikon Z7 however is not yet listed in the discontinued section of Nikon Japan website.
A quick check in the US shows that the Nikon Z7 is currently in stock at Adorama, B&H, and Paul’s Photo.
Update: it seems that several Nikon Z6 configurations are also listed as discontinued:
I have to make one of those posts again – Nikon ambassador did not use a Nikon Z8 camera and Nikon’s website did not leak the Nikon Z8 camera as some clickbait sites reported today. A quick search shows the original Nikon USA website that was created almost a year ago – the Z8 is clearly a typo since the whole article is about the Z9. You can view the source on the page to see the code – here is a screenshot:
Today Lexar announced the world’s fastest CFExpress Type A Gold series memory card and a new CFExpress Type A/SD card reader:
CFexpress Type A Card GOLD Series
CFexpress™ Type A/SD™ Card Reader
Update: check out also the new Lexar Professional 1800x Gold Series memory card.
Press release:
New Nikon Z9 classes with Steve Simon:
→ Many Viltrox Z-mount lenses (and other products) are currently on sale at Rollei in Germany (this offer is ending on August 8th).
→ DxO released PureRAW version 2.1 with Apple M1/M2 chips support.
→ New on Kickstarter: NYA-EVO Fjord backpacks (made of recycled nylon): $6,724 pledged of $5,095 goal with 31 days to go. More photography-related Kickstarter projects can be found here.
→ Godox announced a new Knowled M600Bi Bi-Color LED moonlight (now available for pre-order).
→ Here are the latest memory cards and readers that were announced in the last few weeks:
Nikon Japan issued a new press notice indicating that orders of the Speedlight SB-500 flash are temporarily suspended. The Nikon Speedlight SB-5000 flash should be available for purchase.
Most Nikon Speedlight flashes have been for a while and are currently out of stock in the US (check Adorama and B&H).
As I already mentioned last year, I think Nikon is done with developing flash units for their cameras and has already outsourced that task to third-party manufacturers:
Here is the Google translated notice from Nikon Japan:
Update: it seems that this was a mistake and Adroma has updated their Z9 listing.
Adorama has updated their website and now they expect the Nikon Z9 to be in stock (or to start shipping if ordered today) on August 11:
FYI: B&H Photo is currently shipping Nikon Z9 pre-orders placed in January 2022.
