Japanese industry association CIPA has published its cumulative camera manufacturing and shipment figures through August 2026, revealing a market that is shipping fewer units while sustaining revenue. The year-to-date balance confirms that manufacturers are delivering fewer interchangeable-lens camera bodies. At the sa...
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir photographed a green and purple aurora over Kyrgyzstan from the International Space Station. For the capture, she used a Nikon Z9 camera with a focal length of 15 mm. The image documents how solar particles excite atmospheric gases at different altitude layers during a moderate geomagnetic s...
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Chinese regulatory agency CMIIT has certified camera code N2528 from Nikon, bringing the number of unannounced bodies registered by the brand in recent months to three.For Z-mount photographers, this backlog of registrations confirms an imminent catalogue refresh. This helps plan equipment purchases and anticipate the...
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The Nikon D80 turns 20 years old after its August 2006 introduction, and it is back in conversations about the so-called “CCD look”. The camera matters less as a nostalgic object than as a concrete way to see what changed when digital photography gained comfort, speed and room for error.On paper, the D80 cannot compete...
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Nikon appears third in 2025 mirrorless production, with about 860,000 units, behind Canon and Sony. The figure matters because it corrects a too-fast reading of the market: in total digital cameras, Fujifilm does surpass Nikon, but that table is not measuring exactly the same thing.The difference may look small, but it...
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Nikon keeps an official list of authorized dealers in the U.S. as of August 29, 2026, although an update says it ended its relationship with Photographic Research Organization (PRO), a cooperative of independent stores. For anyone buying Nikon cameras or lenses, the practical point is not to panic about stock: it is to...
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Nikon is moving through 2026 with rumors of delays in cameras and lenses, while its own financial documents show a cooler forecast for Imaging Products. For photographers, the useful question is not to guess a secret date, but to decide how much weight to give to a wait that no longer feels so comfortable.The key is to...
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Japan's Intellectual Property High Court dismissed Nikon's claim against Panasonic Holdings on June 30, 2026. That left in place the invalidation of twenty claims in Japanese patent 5231529, originally held by RED. For people who shoot video, this matters because it affects one specific legal barrier to in-camera compr...
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Nikon’s Investor Relations documents published on August 6, 2026 leave a fairly clear signal. The Imaging division did not have a comfortable quarter. Revenue fell. Profit fell. And camera and lens volume fell as well.The concrete figures matter. In the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, Imaging Products came in at 72....
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The dispute between Nikon and Viltrox in China touches a concrete question for Nikon Z users: how open can a system be when an important part of its lenses comes from third parties?Available sources report that CNIPA invalidated all claims of Nikon’s Chinese patent 202010127062.4. That patent was tied to the conflict w...
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