→ The new Pegear CFExpress Type B memory card is now available also on Amazon.(see all Pergear CFExpress memory cards).
→ Kristi Odom’s Nikon wildlife photography gear.
→ Nikon Z9 + Topaz Sharpen AI report can be found here. The Topaz Labs Sharpen AI sale is ending soon.
→ Profoto released a new firmware update for their Nikon-specific products.
The Creative Photo Academy is offering a free online event “Nikon Z9 Focus Tour” on Thursday, March 24 at 5:30 pm (Pacific time):
Nikon is the most used camera in North Korea in 2021 according to this article published on a media outlet specializing in North Korean topics: Nikon is the most used camera by the State News Agency KCNA. Although the article is paywalled, here are two tweets published by NK NEWS:
DxO released PureRAW 2 – the new version allows users to pre-process images without leaving Lightroom, offers significant speed improvements, added Fujifilm X-Trans/40 new cameras support, 5800 new modules, improved OS integration, and more.
Skylum (located in Ukraine) released Luminar Neo 1.0.2 – some of the new improvements are: copy and paste edits functionality, Image 3D Transform, PNG format support, increased Frame Per Second rate while using the drag slider on any of the effects, and more (try coupon code NIKONRUMORS for a discount).
ON1 announced a new Resize AI product – a new photo enlargement software that uses AI to create sharper images (coming in April).
Topaz Labs released Sharpen AI version 4.0.2 with native Apple M1 support, a new sharpening model, and performance improvements. Sharpen AI is now $20 off (use coupon code RUMORS15 for an extra 15% off).
Via PhotoRumors
As you can see from the title, the Internet is full of rumors for every possible/imaginable Nikon camera. Most of the specs are probably made up, the sources, as usual, are clickbait websites that have never ever reported anything reliable in the past. Here is a recap:
Nikon USA usually doesn’t remove discontinued lenses from their website, but sometime in the last two weeks they must have removed the following five lenses:
And at some point before that, they must have also removed:
The 55-200 and the 16-80 are still available at B&H as grey market imports.
So officially, there are now 99 F-mount SKUs on the NikonUSA list, but 18 of those are most likely also discontinued in the US. Of the remaining 81, 36 are already discontinued in Japan.
Nikon has been consistently discontinuing Nikkor F-mont lenses in the last few years:
