Weekly Nikon news flash #662

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

   

→ Nikon Rumor’s sponsor Paul’s Photo still has spots open for their Cuba Photo Adventure (March 13-20, 2022). See the preview meeting recording for more info.


→ New Angelbird CFexpress Type B Mk2 memory cards announced:


→ The Kickstarter for the K|Lens One light field lens for DSLR cameras (F-mount) is now canceled.


→ The Nikon Z9 is the best-selling camera in the second half of January 2022 according to Capa Camera Japan.
→ Dpreview: Interview with sports photographer Mark Pain on the new Nikon Z9.


→ New Arca plate for Nikkor Z 100-400mm VR S and 70-200mm lenses announced in Japan (listed on Amazon Japan).

→ Nikon Z cameras awards:

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Nikon issued a warning about suspicious emails being sent to YouTube and Facebook channel owner imitating Nikon Public Relations

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


Nikon UK issued a warning about suspicious emails being sent to YouTube and Facebook channel owners imitating Nikon Public Relations:

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Nikon Q3 financial results

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

Nikon Operating Profit History last 10 years

Nikon operating profit history for last 10 years

Nikon released their financial results for the third quarter of the year ending in March 2022 – here are the number for the Imaging Division:

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New Nikon NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.2 S lens patent (with defocus control?)

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



A new patent application surfaced online in Japan yesterday (P2022-21154A) for a NIKKOR Z 85mm f/1.2 lens. Several different designs are described in the patent plication – see the diagrams above. Here are the details for the #1 lens design:

  • Focal length (f): 84.7mm
  • Aperture (FNO): f/1.22
  • Angle of view (2ω): 28.42°
  • Image height (Ymax): 21.60mm
  • Overall length (TL): 134.82mm
  • Back focus (BF): 11.46mm

What’s most interesting is that the purpose of the patent is to build a lens with defocus control (control of the spherical aberration), like the older Nikon AF DC-Nikkor 105mm f/2D and Nikon AF DC-NIKKOR 135mm f/2D, and the Canon RF DS lenses (Defocus Smoothing).

Indeed, paragraph 57 [Summary] begins as follows (translated):

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Nikon USA rebates for February

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


For February Nikon USA has rebates only on a few DSLR lenses for F-mount: Adorama | B&H Photo. Here are the details:

The Nikon camera discounts I believe are unchanged: Adorama | B&H.

Update: as a part of their Deal Zone B&H today has another CFexpress deal – the Delkin 2TB CFexpress Type B memory card is $450 off:


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Nikon’s consolidated financial forecast has been revised upward (again)

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


Nikon issued a notice regarding their last revision of the consolidated financial forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022: “consolidated results have remained on a trend stronger than that in the previous forecast“. As a result. the consolidated financial forecast has been revised upward (again) from the last financial report back in November. Here is the full text:

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Oh no… Hell has frozen over: Tony Northrup is giving us 10 reasons why the Nikon Z9 is better than the Sony a1

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


Oh no… Hell has frozen over – here is Tony Northrup giving his 1.5 million followers 10 reasons why the Nikon Z9 camera is better than the Sony a1:

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