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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The rumor of a professional Nikon DX camera should no longer be read only as a possible successor to the D500. That angle matters, but it is not enough. If the 45 MP figure in APS-C were real, the central question would be different. Nikon would have to show what it can build around that sensor.A 45 MP APS-C sensor is...
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The latest strong rumor around Nikon points to a high-end DX camera built for speed. There is no confirmed name. There are no settled specifications either. What does appear consistently is the idea of a fast professional APS-C body positioned in a way that recalls what the D500 once was inside the Nikon system.That al...
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When the NASA confirmed that the main camera of the Artemis II mission would be a Nikon D5 —released in 2016, when iPods still existed—, the reaction in the photography community was one of genuine perplexity. How is it possible that the most advanced space agency in the world sends its astronauts to the Moon with an a...
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