Nikon Z fc hands on in Taipei

 

I just had the pleasure to get my hands on the Nikon Z fc, Nikon's recent mega hit that is also sold out here in Taiwan, and share some of my impressions. First of all, the camera is tiny. It's much smaller than I thought which is a good thing. Secondly, it looks so realistically like a film camera from certain angle, you'd never think it's a digital camera. And that small screen that displays the f-stop is really small, but I like it a lot. The camera is really solidly built, much better than a Fuji in that same segment.

 

Living in Taiwan during the first Coronavirus outbreak

 

It wasn't a long time ago when I wrote about coronavirus and how I felt being stuck here in Taiwan. The island nation was one of the few countries in the world that has dodged the virus completely. We did have cases nearly every day, but these came in from the outside and were put into quarantine. For over a year the system worked flawlessly, until last month when a foreign pilot spread the UK variant inside the airport hotel and the staff spread it to family members and friends, and some of them spread it to random strangers, especially in Taipei. And so Taiwan has its first large local outbreak since the start of the pandemic. We had some 5-10 cases per day already last week, but two days ago we got a much bigger daily number for the first time: 180 cases. A day later, which happens to be today, it's already 202. I'm already nervous when I think about what the numbers will be tomorrow or a week from today. I'm afraid they'll be in the thousands, and higher. 

Nikon executive Keiji Oishi confirms a new mirrorless flagship camera

DP Review just published an interview with Keiji Oishi, the Department Manager of Nikon's Imaging Business Unit of the UX Planning Department. In the interview Oishi revealed that Nikon is planning to release a new flagship mirrorless camera that will be available within 2021.