Nikon Acquires RED Digital Cinema to Accelerate Growth in Professional Camera Market

In a move that promises to reshape the professional digital cinema camera landscape, Nikon Corporation today announced an agreement to acquire 100% ownership of RED.com, LLC (RED). The pioneering digital cinema camera company, founded by James Jannard in 2005, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon after satisfying customary closing conditions.

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Nikon will not Exit DSLR Camera Market Yet

According to latest news from several Japanese news medias, Nikon seems continue to deny the exit from the DSLR market. Though their major focus is on Z-mount mirrorless cameras, they will still produce, sell, and support single-lens reflex cameras.

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Nikon Developed 1 inch 4K Stacked CMOS Sensor w/ 1000fps

Nikon Japan today issued a press release that Nikon has developed a stacked CMOS with a total pixel count of approximately 17.84 million pixels that realizes high-resolution imaging with 1000 frames per second, HDR characteristics of 110 dB, and 4K x 4K.

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Nikon to End Camera Production in Japan (Moving to Thailand in Late 2021)

According to Japanese website Asahi, Nikon will end camera production in Japan by the end of 2021, all camera production will moved to Thailand. Currently, Z6 & Z7 and Z-mount lens production have already moved to Thailand, and D6 production will be moved to Thailand by the end of 2021.

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Photokina 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus, Next Photokina will be in May 2022

As CP+ 2020 and NAB 2020 have been already cancelled, the upcoming Photokina 2020 in May now also got cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak. According to Photokina official press release, next Photokina event will be held in May, 2022.

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Nikon Will Not to Participate in NAB 2020 Due to COVID-19

Nikon today has just announced that they will not to participate in the upcoming NAB 2020 show in Las Vegas in April, 2020. We expect more will follow when it comes to NAB 2020 exhibitors baring a complete cancel.

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