Nikon Rumors

Weekly Nikon news flash #688

By [NR] admin | Published: August 6, 2022

New Nikon Z9 classes with Steve Simon:

Nikon Z9 New York City Mentorship Masterclass (September 16-18, 2022)
Nikon Z9 Vancouver Mentorship Masterclass (August 19-21, 2022)

→ 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:

Prograde SD/microSD USB C reader
Lexar CFexpress A reader
Sabrent SDexpress reader
Sandisk Extreme Pro SD 200MBps SD (capacity up to 1TB)
Sandisk Extreme SD 180MBps (up to 256GB)
Sandisk Extreme Pro MicroSD 190MBps (capacity up to 1TB)
Sandisk ProCinema CFexpress B card
2TB Cfxpress B card from Vaxis
1TB Cfxpress B from Exascend
Angelbird 1TB AV Pro Mk 2 V60 SD Memory Card

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Nikon Speedlight SB-500 flash orders temporary suspended, Speedlight SB-5000 available for purchase

By [NR] admin | Published: August 5, 2022

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:

Nikon’s collaborations with Nissin and Profoto: I think Nikon will no longer develop lighting product

Here is the Google translated notice from Nikon Japan:

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Adorama expected the Nikon Z9 to be in stock on August 11

By [NR] admin | Published: August 4, 2022

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.

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Nikon’s first quarter financial results of the year ending March 2023: revenue and profits are up

By [NR] admin | Published: August 4, 2022

Nikon reported its first quarter financial results of the year ending March 2023. Both revenue and profits are up. Here is the Q1 financial results summary:

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35 Nikon Nikkor F-mount DSLR lenses discontinued

By [NR] admin | Published: August 3, 2022

In the past few months, I have been reporting about all the discontinued Nikon F-mount products. AP has been tracking the availability of Nikkor F-mount (DSLR) lenses and concluded that over the last three years Nikon has discontinued 35 F-mount lenses. Here is the list: