Every few months I have to make a post and debunk some fake news/clickbait story reported by another website. Today we are dealing with the “rumor” that Fuji and the Japanese government are supposed to help Nikon and Fuji will buy Nikon. What is the source you may ask? A random Japanese blog post from a […]
With so much fake news going around the Web, just a quick reminder – as you can see from the pictures above, anyone can easily manipulate the EXIF data of a photo and pretend to be using a new, not-yet-release Nikon camera (in the cases above, a Nikon D850 and a D900).
Initially I was not going to cover this nonsense here on the blog (remember the Nikon buying Samsung camera division “rumor”?), but Thom Hogan wrote a very nice and long article that covers pretty much everything I have to say on this topic – you can read it at dslrbodies.com. Here are just a few quotes:
Koreatimes has a new article today about Samsung denying (again) speculations about selling its imaging technologies to Nikon:
There are many fake videos on YouTube about all kinds of “made up” new Nikon cameras. Some of them are based on information I reported here on NR, others are just plain good old BS – they are all made to appear like official Nikon promotions, but I can assure you they are not.
Nikon EU confirmed with “confidence” that the rumors about Nikon purchasing Samsung NX are not true (what I have been saying for almost a week now). Samsung had a similar response last week. I have never heard Nikon commenting on a rumor before. Ever. Here is a quote from the Spanish website Quesabesde (Google translation):
Just a quick update on my Samsung post from yesterday: Samsung officially denied all rumors about Nikon buying their NX mirrorless technology to AmateurPhotographer. If you have ever worked with a PR person/agency you know that this doesn’t mean much, but I am still surprised because the standard response to such inquiries is usually “no comments” or “we […]
Rumors about Nikon acquiring all or a portion of Samsung imaging business are nothing new – they started on Russian forums and dpreview and I even speculated about it a month ago: Update: Samsung officially denied all rumors about Nikon buying its NX technology I have also received email tips on this topic but never found them […]
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