Nikon financial report shows they missed their imaging business forecast

Nikon’s big step into the Full Frame mirrorless camera has still to happen and they better hurry. According to their latest financial report published today things don’t look that good. They missed their forecast for the imaging business due to missed sales volumes in the compact camera segment.

Revenue and profit is expected to keep going down in their 2019 forecast:

via Nikoneye

Tamron releases official statement to say 28-75mm FE preorders were much higher than expected

Preorders: The Tamron lens is now available for preorder at Amazon, BHphoto, BuyDig and Adorama. In Europe at Amazon DE and WexUK.

This morning Tamron Japan issued a statement confirming that preorders on the new 28-75mm FE preorders where much higher than expected. They apologize because this means many will haveto wait much longer than expected to get their lens.

And a good news for Sony: Dpreview declared the Sony A7III as the bext camera you can get for under $2000.

Sony shows their new 400mm f/2.8 GM beast at the Kand trip

Sony organized a very big meeting Kando 2.0 with many Sony Artisans and experts. The event takes place in California an behind the glass they are again showing the new 400mm f/2.8 FE lens. But Sony wasn’t ready yet to unveil the proce which we suspect will be $10,000 :)

GIMP 2.10 released

If you need an Open Source software for your image editing you might check out the new GIMP 2.10:

GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.

Check out the release notes:gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html