Nikon Stuff [ Nikon Gear that matters ]

Patent application 2010-026469 (filed in February 2010) is about a built in rear lens cover – similar to the body mount/sensor cover patent discussed here – the corer is deployed automatically once the lens is removed. The interesting part here is that the lens release button is located on the lens (item 54 in the first drawing) and [...] Related posts:

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Last year Nikon filed a patent application #20100110236 for an autofocus in a video/TV camera with interchangeable lenses. Here are some quoted text from the patent application- note that they used the word “inexpensive”:
“The present invention relates to an autofocus apparatus and a camera that are used for a camera, mainly for a video camera [...] Related posts:

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Nikon patent applications published (made available to the public) this week: Lens system: if I am not mistaken this patent appears to be for a zoom lens with 7-24mm focal length, maybe for a point and shoot camera: Electronic device (built-in GPS): the figure shows a point and shoot camera that besides geotagging also displays a map on the screen. Distortion [...] Related posts:

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