Nikon P7000 and Nikon D3100 now shipping

By [NR] admin | Published: September 25, 2010

Nikon P7000 is in stock right now at Amazon:

Nikon D3100 is also in stock at Amazon:

Few related videos after the break:

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F-mount goodies at Photokina

By [NR] admin | Published: September 24, 2010

Several new F-mount products were introduced at Photokina. A quick overview:

Sigma

Samyang

In addition to the 35 mm f/1.4 AS UMC lens, Samyang also announced two new lenses with F-mount: V-DSLR 8 mm F3.5 Aspherical IF MC Fish-eye CS and AE 14 mm f/2.8 ED AS IF UMC. The 8mm lens is what Samyang calls “Video-DSLR” which means that the lens already has follow focus teeth. Electronic interface was added to the 14mm f/2.8 lens for transferring information about focal lengths and available apertures.

Schneider-Kreuznach

Schneider-Kreuznach announced two two tilt-shift lenses with F-mount: PC-TS Super-Angulon 2.8/50 HM and PC-TS Makro-Symmar 4.0/90 HM. Press release is available on dpreview.

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Nikon at Photokina coverage (or lack thereof)

By [NR] admin | Published: September 23, 2010

The latest buzz on the Net is the high ISO image samples from the D7000 taken at the Nikon booth at Photokina: the Italian website hwupgrade has a few, including downloadable NEF files. More samples available here, here, here and here. Besides that, the Nikon related coverage from Photokina is almost non-existing. Next time I will make sure I have my own coverage.

There are also four new “I am Photokina” videos:

The story behind the Nikon key cube

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Nikon @ Photokina day 1

By [NR] admin | Published: September 21, 2010
Four videos from Photokina (the first three are from the “I am Photokina” campaign):

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Nikon Q sign in Cologne? *busted*

By [NR] admin | Published: September 21, 2010

Update: this rumor is busted, you can see the original picture here.

A reader just sent me this picture of a “Nikon Q” sign reportedly taken in Cologne Germany where Photokina 2010 is taking place. I am skeptical (red Nikon logo?). Has anyone seen something similar on the streets of Cologne or around Photokina?

Nikon Q in Cologne

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Here is the error level analysis of this image for whatever is worth.

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Nikon instant rebates will expire on October 2, P7000 ready to ship

By [NR] admin | Published: September 20, 2010

In lack of other news:

Note that B&H will be closed from September 23th till October 1st.

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First pictures from Photokina

By [NR] admin | Published: September 20, 2010

The first pictures from Photokina on the flickr group:

Add your Nikon related pictures today (or actually tomorrow).

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Photokina starts tomorrow

By [NR] admin | Published: September 20, 2010

So far I have not received any indication that Nikon will show something new at Photokina. I will be covering any Nikon related news for the next 24 hours. If you are going to Photokina, you can share your pictures/videos/commentary by contacting me or by uploading pictures to the flickr group I created: http://www.flickr.com/groups/photokina-2010/. You can use also the [NR] forum.

Some Nikon/Photokina related links:

  • Nikon stand at Photokina.
  • This year Photokina is expecting 60,000 people from 49 countries, over 1,500 companies will part of the show.
  • From the Nikon blog: “Nikon has joined forces with six leading companies in the professional photography space, including Adobe, HP and Nik Software, to once again bring you the Photokina Creative Alliance.”

Nikon’s offcial press release for Photkina after the break:

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Weekly Nikon related news/links #76

By [NR] admin | Published: September 19, 2010

“Nikon has drawn as usual and decided how they want the sensor to function, since it is also, as usual, an external sensor manufacturer based on, in this case Sony.”

And to make things more interesting, according to Markus Hillebrand (Marketing Manager, Nikon Germany) the D7000 sensor is design and produced by Nikon:

“A further highlight is the 16.2 effective megapixel resolution CMOS image sensor, the Nikon According to Markus Hillebrand, Marketing Manager, Nikon Germany, has even developed and produced.”

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Nikon Q – a hoax?

By [NR] admin | Published: September 18, 2010

Update: the original car photo can be found here. It’s a Lexus LF-A. The weirdest thing is that this car is…. mirrorless… look at the pictures, there are no mirrors whatsoever.

Unless you can make any sense of the fourth picture I received today, I say this whole “Nikon Q” thing is a hoax:

I am filing this under the humor rumor section: the new Nikon car 🙂

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