The British Journal of Photography has a great review of the new Nikon AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G Lens.  It’s the first Nikon 35mm f/1.4 lens to offer autofocus, and is quite respectable, though it has a few shortcomings, like slight axial distortion and some vignetting.

Chipworks is a company that famously tears apart higher-end consumer goods to have a peek a what makes them tick.  Their Teardown of the Nikon D7000 revealed a Sony Image sensor, a Toshiba processor (well, microcontroller), 1 GB of onboard RAM, and of course the Nikon EXPEED image processor.  For those of you wondering why two processors are necessary, the Toshiba processor is responsible for dislpaying images on the LCD, making the camera do things when all the buttons, knobs, and switches are used, monitoring the battery, etc.  The EXPEED processor would be responsible for controlling the sensor itself, interpreting the raw bits coming off that sensor, and doing something intelligent with them before handing them off to the Toshiba to be written to the memory card.

via Rob Galbraith

P.S.  Sorry about the “#pocketwizard” twitter tag.  My browser thought it knew what I was going to type for tags, and I wasn’t paying enough attention to it :-)

Rob Galbraith is reporting that shipments of the much-waited-upon radio triggers for Nikon from Pocket Wizard are on the way to US Dealers, beginning today.

DPReview is reporting on a new cinema-style lens for use on the modern crop of HDDSLR cameras from Canon and Nikon:

Carl Zeiss has introduced the Distagon T* 1,4/35 wide-angle lens in Canon EF (ZE) and Nikon F (ZF.2) mounts. This manual focus lens, with its large f/1.4 aperture, is made up of 11 elements in 9 groups. With an equivalent focal length of 50mm on APS-C cameras, it can be used on both digital and analog SLRs. Priced at €1385.71, the lens will be available in the first quarter of 2011.

Sony’s introduced some new DSLR cameras that use a pellicle, or semi-transparent mirror.  The upshot to this is that you never have a moment of blackout while the mirror inside the camera swings up and out of the way of the sensor to take a shot.  On a very slightly sardonic note, we can’t help but point out that Canon did this in 1965 (Canon Pellix), and Nikon did the same in 1976 (Nikon F2H).

While I tend to shy away from rumors, this one seems pretty well substantiated, especially in light of Sony recently announcing they’d not be manufacturing full-frame sensors any longer. So this leaves us thinking that Nikon will indeed find itself designing and manufacturing sensors for its cameras.