Rumors: new Nikon price increase coming to the UK in June

By [NR] admin | Published: May 14, 2018


Nikon is rumored to announce a new prices increase in the UK next month (June, 2018) and this time it is expected to be a significant one. If you are planning on buying a new Nikkor lens, now it is probably a good time to pull the trigger. I was told that even the new Nikkor AF-S 180-400mm f/4 ED TC VR lens will get a hefty price increase (currently £10,999).

Check the current Nikon prices at WEX, Jessops, Park Camera and Amazon UK.

Nikon already had several price increases in Europe and the UK in the past few years.

Update – I got some additional information on this topic:

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Report: Nikon 1 semi-officially discontinued in Canada

By [NR] admin | Published: May 14, 2018

Nikon 1 concepts on display when the system was introduced

A reader sent me a link to a dpreview thread describing a conversation with a Nikon rep at a recent trade photo show in Canada:

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More fake news: “Internal Fujifilm document predicts 50% market share decrease for Canon and Nikon within 2021”

By [NR] admin | Published: May 14, 2018


Today you will find a lot of fake news and made up rumors reported on some websites. Of course, the information is always carefully crafted so you cannot really verify the validity at a later time. The only purpose of those “rumors” is clickbait and I usually don’t report them here, but I saw a post from Thom Hogan today where he debunks the latest claim (reported as “a rumor I trust“): “Internal Fujifilm document predicts 50% market share decrease for Canon and Nikon within 2021″.

Here are a few quotes from Thom Hogan’s latest article titled “The Rumored Claims Are Wrong” (read the full post for a more detailed analysis):

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Weekly Nikon news flash #470

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2018


→ New ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5 coming in June.


→ Classic camera review: the original Nikon F.


→ Sigma Mother’s day deals.

→ Video review: Mcoplus vertical multiple function battery grip for Nikon D850.


→ Inside Nikon’s Hikari glass factory:

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Nikon pulled out of the 2018 NRA’s annual meeting

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2018

Bloomberg: this cached NRA web page says Nikon planned a “greatly expanded presence”

Nikon will not be part of NRA’s annual meeting this year – here is a quote from Bloomberg:

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TowerJazz Q1 2018 report: “We are moving according to our plans with the leading DSLR camera supplier”

By [NR] admin | Published: May 13, 2018


Here is a quote from the TowerJazz Q1 2018 earnings call transcript where company’s executives talk again about the foundry’s image sensor business and their ongoing relationship with a “leading DSLR camera supplier“:

“We are moving according to our plans with the leading DSLR camera supplier and we will start soon as second even more ambitious project, which includes stacked backside illuminated wafers for this market. This will continue to position us as a leading foundry for high-end photography applications. All these exciting activities will bear fruits in the coming two to three years in a steady high volume, high margin production as the world-leading provider of CMOS sensors for high-end applications.”

There have been some speculations in the past that the sensor inside the Nikon D850 is manufactured by TowerJazz, but this was never confirmed. TowerJazz is working on a new full frame sensor with global shutter which can be linked to the upcoming Nikon mirrorless camera (unless TowerJazz is working with Canon or Ricoh/Pentax and not with Nikon):

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Slide copying with the Nikon ES-1, BR-5 adapters and the Nikkor Micro AF-S 105mm f/2.8 ED VR lens

By [NR] admin | Published: May 12, 2018


Slide copying by K. Jayaram, a nature photographer from India:

I have used slide films for over four decades. I have been wanting to copy some of the important slides and tried copying and scanning with no satisfying results. After a serious hunt, I came across the Nikon slide copying attachment ES-1. But the problem with it is that it has been designed exclusively for use with Micro Nikkor AF 60mm f/2.8 D lens or with Micro Nikkor AF 55mm f/2.8 with three extension tubes to make 1:1 magnification.

Since I already have a Micro Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/2.8 ED VR lens, I did not want to invest in another macro lens. So, I started experimenting by copying the slides in a crude manner and found out that I can copy the 35mm slides with my 105mm lens with a certain amount of extension in front of the lens.

        
   
So, I ventured for the Nikon ES-1 slide copying adapter and Nikon BR-5 adapter ring. It wasn’t sufficient and I still had to push the magnification a little farther away from the lens. So, I bought a cheap non-auto Chinese extension tube and a Nikon BR-2A reverse ring and Nikon BR-3 mount adapter ring (see picture above).

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