Don’t judge a book by its cover

By LR admin | Published: August 8, 2008

We just launched this bog and already received few skeptical emails about this site, which is fine - we like constructive criticism (we got some encouraging messages too). Rumors sites cannot deliver new rumors every day starting with the first post. Like everything else it will take time to analyze our sources and start collecting some credible information. You will be surprised of the amount and quality of information we are now receiving at NikonRumors. Over time ,we will be able to accomplish the same results here. Yes, we did report on some old Leica rumors, but we have some catching up to do.

Someone mentioned that we are just following the news already reported on other sites. This is partially true, but in NikonRumos we were the first one to deliver on many rumors and most of them turned out to be true - the latest picture of Nikon D90 is a good example (of course we still do not know if it is the real deal). We do believe we were the first one to publish it. Of course many other sites picked on it, but if you look at the time stamps and follow the source links, they all go back to NR. Remember the Nikon D700? Just over a month ago very few readers believed this story and now photographers are already shooting with it.

Why we are saying all this? Just one reason/request: please be patient, don't judge a book by its cover and give us some time.

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2 Comments

  1. Blog Admin
    Posted August 8, 2008 at 7:01 pm | Permalink
    This will be an interesting development, if Leica starts using D3 sensors – we can get it covered on both ends
    Trust me, there are enough people out there that have information and are willing to share it, they are just not sure where and how. Protecting our sources is our main concern and on few occasions we did not report on rumors we received just for that reason. Once people understand this, they will start talking. Do I have to mention that this is also a great marketing strategy (in no way I am suggesting here that Nikon or Leica are leaking information on purpose, but I am not excluding this scenario either).
  2. Bryce
    Posted August 8, 2008 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

    You guys F*ing rock.

    I have to agree that logically it makes sense for Leica to debut a full frame rangefinder. The only reason that they didn’t before (they said this themselves) is that the light falloff in the corners was too great.

    Now lets think of a company that has tons of experience with getting full frame sensors mated to a small lens mount. NIKON. Kodak doesn’t have the experience with this to be able to handle it.

    It’s very very possible that either the M9, or the R10 could have a D3 sensor & Expeed in it, heck they both could.

    Also remember the rumors that Nikon was branching out to other things (the assumption at the time was Medium Format). So if nikon partners with leica on RF’s & SLR’s who’s going to end up in Medium Format?