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Lexar presents ARMOR GOLD SD Card with a stainless-steel construction that is 37x stronger than typical SD cards

Lexar announced the launch of an ‘indestructible’ SD card made entirely of stainless steel. Something like the Cybertruck of SD cards 🙂

The ARMOR GOLD SD Card with a stainless-steel construction that is 37x stronger than typical SD cards, it is designed to withstand grueling usage out in the wild while offering up to 210MB/s[1] write speed and Video Speed Class 60 (V60) to seamlessly capture 6K footage.

There is yet no info about when those cards will be available to market.

Additional note: Lots of Lexar gear has big discounts on their Amazon page (Click here) and at BHphoto.

Nikon 35mm f/1.2 Z to be announced in February?

I got a tip from a trusted source that a new Nikon 35mm f/1.2 Z might be announced in a couple of weeks. This lens was rumored (by others) to be coming already last year but those rumors were plain wrong. But finally it’s coming 🙂

The sources did yet not get any details about other products so it seems this is maybe all we will get at the CP+ show this year!

P.S.: The lens was shows on the official Nikon lens roadmap a couple of years ago:

These were the ten best-selling cameras in Japan in 2024

2024 is over and BCN finally shared the accurate data showing the top 10 best selling cameras of this year:

  1. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 – 16.0% market share
  2. Canon EOS R50 – 11.6% market share
  3. Canon EOS R10 – 6.7% market share
  4. Sony α6400 – 5.8% market share
  5. Sony α7C II – 4.9% market share
  6. Nikon Z50  – 4.3% market share
  7. OM Digital Solutions OLYMPUS PEN E-P7 – 3.9% market share
  8. Nikon Zf 40mm f/2 (SE) Lens Kit – 3.4% market share
  9. Sony VLOGCAM ZV-E10 II – 3.2% market share
  10. Panasonic LUMIX G1000 – 3.1% market share

Reminder: BCN collected the real sale data of nearly half the Japanese Store.

First image of the new SG 24mm f/6.3 full-frame pancake lens

SG will soon be launching a new 24mm f/6.3 full frame pancake lens. The image above shows the edition number ‘00001’ and is the L-mount version. But Z-mount will be available too for a price of 299 Yuan (about $65).. It’s obviously a manual focus lens and I’m not expecting outstanding optical performance.

via Weibo

BCNranking for 2024: Nikon takes the third spot in the mirrorless segment

As you know BCN collected the real sale data of nearly half the Japanese Store. And they now shared the BCN Awards with detailed market share for each category of electronics. Here are the market share data with the 2023 market share in parentheses.

Digital Cameras (Mirrorless)

  1. Sony 35.8% (34%)
  2. Canon 26% (28.3%)
  3. Nikon 14.5% (Unknown, took over the third spot from OM Digital which had 12.5% in 2023)

Digital Cameras (fixed lens)

  1. Canon 23.4% (22.6%)
  2. Kodak 21.2% (20.7%)
  3. Fujifilm 15.8% (18.1%)

Digital Cameras (SLR)

  1. Canon 69.4% (77.1%)
  2. Nikon 20.9% (17.1%)
  3. Ricoh 9.7% (5.8%)

Lenses

  1. Tamron 17.5% (15.4%)
  2. Sigma 16.8% (17%)
  3. Sony 15% (15.2%)

Digital Video Cameras

  1. DJI 48.1% (wasn’t ranked in top three last year and took the world by storm)
  2. Panasonic 23.8% (36.4%)
  3. Sony 23.4% (38.7%)

Action Cameras

  1. GoPro 34.3% (53.7%)
  2. DJI 32.1% (15.9%)
  3. Insta360 26.9% (18.1%)

What we learn from this:

  1. Sony managed to increase the lead over Canon from 5.7 to 9,8 percent
  2. Nikon surpassed OM Digital and now is on third spot
  3. Nikon has 20.9% in the “dying” DSLR market
  4. DJI took the video world by storm. Thank the Osmo 3 for that!