Nikon announced that total production of Nikkor lenses for Nikon interchangeable lens cameras reached 80  million in mid-June. The Nikon F, and the first Nikkor lens for Nikon SLR cameras (the Nikkor-S Auto 5cm F/2.0), were released in 1959. The company continues to expand its range of lenses for its Nikon 1 system,  introduced in October 2011. Nikon reached the 75 million mark … [Read more...]

Nikon established Nikon Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in Singapore on June 3d, 2013, as its new financial  headquarters for Asia and Oceania. Both the regions witnessed growth in business opportunities, making  them important for Nikon. The new company will be headed by Norio Hashizume. Nikon plans to transfer its  sales and marketing operations from Hong Kong to Singapore by October … [Read more...]

Epson announced that it had been named the Official Global Partner of the 2013 Nature’s Best Photography  Windland Smith Rice International Awards Exhibition. The exhibition, hosted at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., features winners chosen from more than 20,000 entries  submitted by photographers from over 46 countries worldwide to the … [Read more...]

Canon announced the EOS 70D, a mid-range D-SLR for photography enthusiasts. The camera comes  equipped with Canon’s brand new 20.2 MP ‘Dual Pixel CMOS AF’ sensor, which allows every effective pixel to perform imaging as well as AF functions through independent dedicated photodiodes, vastly improving AF performance in Live View and Video Mode. The camera also contains the … [Read more...]

Canon Inc. recently announced that it had developed a new autofocus technology for the EOS 70D D-SLR  camera. Called ‘Dual Pixel CMOS AF’ technology, it employs a CMOS sensor where all the effective pixels  are able to perform imaging as well as phase-detection AF simultaneously. Each individual pixel uses two independent photodiodes, which produce signals that can be used for … [Read more...]