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By admin, on October 22nd, 2011
 One Sep 29, we have published the news / rumor – Nikon D800 is coming with 36 Megapixel on Oct 26, and Nikon D4 is coming on Feb 2012 with 18 Megapixel sensor, now some bad news 🙁 The Nikon D800 announcement or availability will be delayed due to flood in Thailand, According to current news / rumors coming above the surface.
According to chassimages (translated by Google – see here )
Already, two major product launches that were planned for the coming weeks, are reported immediately, recently announced products will experience substantial delays and production of many facilities has ceased.
According to Digicam-info (translated by Google – see here)
Nikon’s product supply almost completely stopped (according to information from other readers, the supply of equipment such as single-digit D is fine), so that the impact on existing products as well as new product It is a worry.
By admin, on October 21st, 2011
 Image copyright - Nationalmultimedia Both Sony and Nikon camera factory production is halted due to current flood situation in Thailand.
Due the impact of major floods in Thailand, some of its manufacturing plants of Sony (Sony Technology Thailand Ayutthaya Plant), has stopped production activities outsourced production plants and suppliers, the Sony Alpha A65, NEX-C3, NEX-5n and NEX 7 double kit packages will no more released on November 11.
Nikon issued its second notice today, Operation of the Nikon factory in Thailand has been suspended since October 6,
Nikon Press Release October 21, 2011
This is to advise you, following our first notice of October 11, of the latest situations of submersion at Nikon (Thailand) Co., Ltd., a consolidated manufacturing subsidiary of Nikon Corporation in the Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya Province located in Central Thailand.
Damages
The 1st floor of all buildings at the premises are presently submerged and the water level is as high as around 2 meters and there arose no remarkable change since October 12. Operation of the factory has been suspended since October 6. It is reported that there is no human damage.
Estimated impact to our business performance
We still have difficulty to grasp the overall damages of our equipment and facility since access to the premises continues to be prohibited. We are now continuing our utmost to estimate the impact of the flood to our group companies and business performance. We assure you to immediately advise our findings once it is judged there will be an important change in our forecast.
Recovery
We are unable to define how soon operation will be resumed. It will take a certain time before the situation normalizes including completion of water pumping out from the Rojana Industrial Park. We have set up support system under the Emergency Headquarters for Disaster Control headed by the president and will endeavor to restart the operation as early as possible. Every possible measure is now under preparation to resume production by means as purchase of new manufacturing equipment, review of production assignment among whole Nikon group companies. As for drainage from the industrial park, we are requesting its acceleration to the Thai government, together with the Rojana Industrial Park authority, other companies in the Park and Japan External Trade Organization.
We deeply apologize you for any inconvenience caused by the disaster such as short supply of our products.
By admin, on October 12th, 2011
Nikon FX Lens Roadmap and new patent details published by egami , The FX Lens Roadmap is based on Nikon FX Lens patents.
Nikon FX Lens Roadmap
Nikon 70-200mm F4 telephoto zoom lens patent
Patent literature, interpretation and self-summary (translated by google)
- Patent Publication No. 2011-197302
- 2011.10.6 Release Date
- Filing date 2010.3.18
- Example 1
- Focal length f = 71.40 – 107.00 – 195.99mm
- Fno = 4.1
- Half angle of 17.107 – 11.288 – 6.107 °
- Image height 21.60mm
- Optical Length 214.6 – 214.5 – 214.8mm
- Back Focus 51.9 – 51.8 – 52.1mm
- Maximum magnification β =- 0.07 – -0.09 – -0.14 times
- 20 sheets of 15 groups
- Zoom ratio 2.745
- Positive positive positive and negative elements in 5 groups Zoom
- Inner Focus
- Inner Zoom
- Image stabilization (VR) with
Nikon 800mm F5.6 telephoto lens patent
Patent literature, interpretation and self-summary (translated by google)
- Patent Publication No. 2011-197413 (Translated by google)
- 2011.10.6 Release Date
- Filing date 2010.3.19
- Example 1
- Focal length f = 800.00mm
- Fno = 5.61
- Image height 21.60mm
- Β =- 0.153 times the maximum magnification
- 16 images 14 groups
- Group 4 consists of positive and negative polarity
- Inner Focus
- The second focus group for
- Image stabilization
- The third part of the group for the VR
Also see latest Nikon D800 Rumors.
By admin, on October 5th, 2011
 Nikon D800 is coming with 36 Megapixel on Oct 26, and Nikon D4 is coming on Feb 2012 with 18 Megapixel sensor, see more here (Nikon D800 and D4 rumor update), According to SonyAlphaRumor Sony may use the Nikon D800 sensor(made by sony) in its upcoming Alpha99 / A99 Fullframe camera. The exact release date has not been chosen yet but there is a huge pressure to release it as soon as possible. Compared to the Nikon D800 the Sony A99 will have slightly different specs and a lower price.
Well in my view to beat Sony NEX 5N low light performance, Sony should use Nikon D4(Upcoming) 18 Megapixel Sensor in its A99 camera.
By admin, on September 29th, 2011
 According to digicame-info(google translated) Nikon D800 will have 36 Megapixel Sensor, expected date of Nikon D800 announcement – October 26.
About D3S successor (Nikon D4) will be released next February with 18 Megapixel Sensor.
Nikon D800 Major Specification (translated by google)
- 36 Megapixel CMOS FX Sensor
- 4 frames per second continuous shooting at FX format, 6 frames per second at DX format, with the optional Multi-Power Battery Pack.
- Shutter durability of 200,000 cycles.
- Full HD video recording – 1920 × 1080/30p
- Dual card Slot (CF and SD)
- USB 3.0 and a New small wireless transmitter
- Market price is about 300,000 yen. The announcement on October 26, released on November 24.
By admin, on September 29th, 2011
Today Nikon Update its Facebook Status by saying (see here) A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses, and a good lens is essential to taking good pictures! Do any of our facebook fans use any of the NIKKOR lenses? Which is your favorite and what types of situations do you use it for?
By admin, on September 26th, 2011
Before we start, a quick reminder – Nikon V1 and Nikon J1 features same 10.1 megapixel CMOS sensor and Expeed 3 dual core image processor (See Nikon V1 vs Nikon J1).
Nikon V1 ISO test is done by FOCUS NUMERIQUE, Nikon V1 different ISO result was compared with Nikon P7100, E-P3, G3, NEX-5.
 copyright focus-numerique Nikon V1 is showing noise even at base ISO, Nikon P7100 (compact camera) result are better compared to V1 at ISO 200.
 copyright focus-numerique At high sensitivity test (above ISO 800 to 6400) the Nikon V1 is doing much better than the Nikon P7100 and Olympus E-P3(m 4/3), but also shows lower performance compared to Panasonic G3 (m 4/3) and Sony NEX-5N (APS-C).
News and image src – digicame-info and www.focus-numerique.com
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