Photokina Flash: Nikon Strikes Back

August 28: For a while there, some photo industry pundits thought Nikon was in trouble. For the first half of this decade, Canon was rolling out DSLRs with superior sensors and always staying several steps ahead of Nikon. Nikon, for its part, was acting like an also-ran, and its sales were slumping. Sure, many of its cameras had key innovations (an outstanding wireless flash system, for instance), but they lacked a full-frame sensor, and the sensors they were using in their latest cameras were often last year's technology. We feared that if this sort of thing continued, Nikon would go the way of Minolta, or worse. Why, we wondered, was Nikon snoozing on the job?

Fortunately for the photographic consumer, 2008 will be remembered as The Year Nikon Woke Up. (MORE)