On 30 August 2018, Nikon announced the new D3500.
Press release can be found here.
This is the successor to the D3400 with a reduction in physical size and some warmed over specifications.
A comparison of specs can be found in this Nikon Rumors post.
What normally might be a headline announcement got somewhat lost in the mirrorless commotion.
On 23 August 2018, Nikon also released the previously announced AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR.
I will update the 500mm PF resource page as reviews start to flow in.
My post is so late I know, but better late than never.
On 23 August 2018, Nikon officially announced their new Z mirrorless system. I’ll leave the commentary for later and will just list the announcements.
Nikon has announced two models to head the Z system release including a Z6 and Z7. The press release for the two cameras and Z system can be found here.
Accompanying the two cameras are three lenses including a kit zoom and two f/1.8 primes:
In addition, there is the development announcement of the flagship lens of the new S-line Nikkor Z’s.
And finally, there is the announcement of an F-mount adapter for adapting Nikon’s existing F-mount lenses.
Surprisingly, Nikon has also give us a lens roadmap which the company has never done in the past.
Leaks, leaks and more leaks.
Ahead of the official announcement press release photos of the new mirrorless Z6 and Z7 cameras have been leaked, first at Nokishita and then another set appeared at Digicame-info.
We also see images of three lenses and an adapter as part of the initial release which includes:
As expected, Nikonrumors is all over it with additional info regarding specifications. Head on over to check out all the commotion.
With just an hour and a half to go til the actual announcement, I wonder whether there’re any secrets left to reveal.
After TRAVEL OF LIGHT, MOUNT, BODY and LENS, we have the 5th instalment of Nikon’s teaser videos for their FX mirrorless system entitled PHOTOGRAPHERS.
The video features the following three photographers:
The next instalment of Nikon’s video teaser has just been posted.
This one is entitled Lens.
The Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2, a legendary Nikon lens features prominently in this video. Nikon Rumors reported previously that Nikon has a new NOCT trademark and that a new Nikon Z-Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/0.95 will be one of the early releases for the system.
Earlier this week on 7 August 2018, Nikon released their first quarter financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2019.
And today Nikon released a third teaser video for their upcoming mirrorless camera entitled Body.
Not much can be gained from this latest teaser video with the mirrorless body appearing only once at the end of the video revealing very little extra detail.
Another teaser pic also appeared on Nikon’s twitter feeds:
As we await the next official teaser video which should occur on Wednesday, there has been an image leak involving an apparent photoshoot of Chinese Uyghur actress Dilraba Dilmurat 迪丽热巴.
As usual, the photos can be seen at Nikonrumors.
This leak reveals the top controls showing a top in the corner dial, LCD and several buttons behind the shutter release reminiscent of the current D5/D850 generation layout.
Again head on over to Nikonrumors for the break down.
As expected, the second teaser video generated a lot of discussion after revealing the general outline of the camera and mount.
This Nikonrumors post has probably the best sets of comparison images to gain an insight on the camera and mount dimensions. So head on over there for the lively discussions.
Measurement estimates still vary widely with the inner mount diameter ranging anywhere from 49mm to >60mm. A reminder that the first rumour for the “Z-mount” was for a “49mm external diameter” (but I think they meant inner mount diameter) but a subsequent set of rumours mentioned 55mm. From the measurements in the teaser video, it looks like 55mm may be closer to the mark.
This has spawned a large number of posts questioning whether the mount is large enough for medium format. Bear in mind Nikon has already officially stated the new system will be for FX so even if the mount may be large enough, we won’t likely (if ever) be seeing it any time soon.
The second video teaser for Nikon’s mirrorless camera called Mount has been posted on their Mirrorless microsite.
We get a much better view of the entire camera shape. No doubt netizens will soon have the calculated dimension of the camera and new mount based on the standard hot shoe.
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