The folks from Dpreview had a chat with Nikon and they made quite a bold statement:

“Our goal is to become number one in the full-frame market. We believe that we can achieve the number one position maybe quite soon”

This means Nikon is sure that after decades of Canon dominance they can finally overthrow them. What could sound even more “arrogant?” is that they believe this will happen “quite soon”. The history of all companies is full of such bold statements. For now let’s hope Nikon brings out new Z glass soon!

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New Nikon Z news roundup:

Nikon Z7 Field Test Part II (Imaging Resource).
Gallery update: The Nikon Z7 goes wrestling (Dpreview).
Updated Hands-on Nikon Z 6 Review by CameraJabber.
35mm f/1.8 Z lens review at Mobile01.

Shoten announced that its first 6 new Nikon Z adapters will go on sale on November 9:

• M42 – NZ (M42 mount lens to Nikon Z mount conversion)
• NF-NZ (Nikon F mount lens → Nikon Z mount conversion)
• CEF-NZ (Canon EF mount lens → Nikon Z mount conversion)
• MSR-NZ (Minolta MD · MC | SR mount → Nikon Z mount conversion))
• CY-NZ (Yashika · Contax Mount lens → Nikon Z mount conversion)
• LR-NZ (Leica R mount lens → Nikon Z mount conversion)

Kinotkia:

We were lucky enough to have a meeting with Dirk from Nikon to give us a first look at the new Z6 and Z7 from Nikon! These mirrorless cameras are potentially going to be better than the competition and we cant wait to get our hands on them soon. We have a Z6 on pre order so hopefully we will have it this month!

Mobile01 reports that the Taiwanese company Kamlan will launch their first Full Frame Nikon Z mount lenses in 2019.

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Kamlan lenses for other mirrorless mounts are currently listed on Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon CA.

We got a couple of Z news to report:

Teardown of the Nikon Z7 Mirrorless Camera (Lensrentals).
Shutter shock and the Nikon Z7 w/ heavy tripod (Jim Kasson).
Nikon Z7 Captures Incredible 45-Megapixels of Chromatically Perfect Detail with Coastal Optics 60mm f/4 UV-VIS-IR APO-Macro (Diglloyd).