Category: Nikon

  • Nikon lens sales

    An interesting tidbit in the just-published Nikon financial data for fiscal year 2008 is that -despite obvious diffculties in nearly all markets- sales of photo lenses went up by 9%.

  • This month best

    Link love Those are the best links found recently: 5 Elements of Composition in Photography: Pattern, Symmetry, Texture, Depth of Field, Lines. 5 More Elements of Composition in Photography: Framing, Perspective, Space, Balance, Color. The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008 A camera obscura can be as large as a room Most-read articles The…

  • Goodbye Nikon D300

    We loved you so much… but from everywhere in the world comes the rumour that the Nikon D300 is disappearing. Nikon must have been stopping all manufacturing. If you still want one, I may suggest that you urgently visit your prefered reseller in order to see if they still have it in stock. Nikon D300

  • Evolution of rumours

    Upon a recommendation by Gérard Pandolfo, I have checked the Google Trends for the upcoming Pentax K7D. It is interesting to notice that Japan is clearly the country where most of the attraction for the Pentax K7D appears. While I’m here, let’s notice that the author of a book about the Nikon D400, recently apologized…

  • Nikon not financially desperate

    In these dire times, it is slightly refreshing to see Nikon announcing that they need to revise their forecasts of financial results for fiscal year ending 31st March 2009. They add first announced a big dip of turnover and profits. But they decided to smile a little more. Maybe they were a little over-pessimistic. Anyway,…

  • Nikon D4000

    En provenance de Suède, nous apprenons que Nikon doit être en train de préparer un “D5000 allégé” pour remplacer l’actuel Nikon D60. Nous savons que c’est une stratégie couramment pratiquée chez Nikon que de construire autant d’appareils que possibles à partir d’autant de blocs ré-utilisables que possible. La prochaine étape est donc de créer un…

  • The nice Nikon D5000 display

    Have a look at the LCD screen of a Nikon D5000. The Nikon engineers obviously are working at making it look good (much better than the competition). And you can upload a background image, too.

  • New rumours: Nikon D400 & Nikon D750

    DigitalRev shows the latest news in terms of rumours about the future SLR cameras from Nikon (to be named, Nikon D400 and Nikon D750). You’d expect more transparency: They gorgeously present them as if they were real products, while it’s only nice colours and pictures for the basest rumours of the moment (the name of…

  • Nikon stops D40

    I hear that Nikon is discontinuing its the Nikon D40: 6.1 millions of pixels since November 2006, that’s quite a success. While stoppping its manufacturing, Nikon officializes firmware updates for the Nikon D40 and D40x. Nikon D40 Download firmware v1.12 (Windows) Download firmware v1.12 (Mac) Nikon D40x Download firmware v1.01 (Windows) Download firmware v1.01 (Mac)…