Nanlite Announces Their Most Powerful Led Lights To Date The Forza 720 720B

Nanlite has announced the new Forza 720 daylight and Forza 720B bicolour LED lights. The former is the most powerful light in the Nanlite arsenal while the latter, they say, is the most powerful bicolour LED light in the world from any company. Both lights are the same in appearance and are rated at 800W, but there are some very slight spec differences between the two – apart from the obvious feature of one of them being bicolour....

April 13, 2023 · 3 min · 451 words · Thomas Wells

Nikon Files Patents For Two Crazy F 1 2 Zooms That Will Probably Never Be Made

Well, if this isn’t a bit of humble-bragging, I’m not sure what is. Nikon has filed a new patent that describes Nikkor Z 35-50mm f/1.2 and Nikkor Z 50-70mm f/1.2 lenses. Yes, that’s right, zoom lenses. With a constant f/1.2 aperture. But it’s unlikely that Nikon will ever actually make them. If they did, they’d be insanely expensive. According to Asobinet, the patent was first filed back in January 2019, but it’s only just been issued this week....

April 13, 2023 · 3 min · 505 words · Michael Ali

Nikon Is Going To Speed Up Their Z Mount Lens Roadmap

According to an interview on French website, Phototrend, Nikon plans to step up the speed when it comes to their Z mount lens roadmap. Nikon also talked about some of the needs and feedback they’ve received from users about the types of lenses they want. Phototrend says that they had planned to put these questions to Nikon face to face during their visit to Japan in February. Due to COVID-19, however, this could not take place....

April 13, 2023 · 3 min · 491 words · Richard Dominguez

Nikon Launches Their Xqd Cards In The Usa Just As Everybody Else Releases Cfexpress

Nikon announced their XQD cards back in August 2018, but they’re now finally in the USA, just in time to become obsoleted by the wave of CFexpress cards being released by everybody else. It only seems to be available in 64GB capacity, and not the 120GB previously reported, but they are showing as available right now to pre-order from B&H for $129.95. The release comes just at a time when SanDisk, Delkin, ProGrade, Wise and Lexar have just released their CFexpress cards for order (in the case of SanDisk) or pre-order (everybody else), offering 3-4x the speeds of Nikon’s (or anybody else’s) XQD cards....

April 13, 2023 · 3 min · 567 words · Diana Arnold

Nisi Releases Its First Macro Focusing Rail For Precise Focus Control

Lens and filter manufacturer, NiSi is branching out into macro with their brand new NM-180 Macro Focusing Rail. And from looking at the video and visuals sent over to us, it looks pretty good, with a range of features and design choices that are quite interesting. Macro focusing rails aren’t a new idea, but they haven’t been really updated in a while and there are a lot of terrible ones out there on the market....

April 13, 2023 · 3 min · 467 words · Mr. Dustin Nelson
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