Rumor: Nikon Investigating Carbon Fiber Camera Bodies [Carbon]

Lightweight and robust, carbon fiber has found a pleasant home inside the auto industry, but how about DSLRs? In step with one dubious source, it is able to happen soon, because of a secret pro DSLR project happening at Nikon.

Said the ” aerospace materials” tipster to NikonRumors :

[F]or the previous couple of months we’ve been working on a carbon fibre body for a Nikon pro-level DSLR. We are specifically gazing the manufacture of a resin-infused 3D woven CFRP body in addition as fatigue testing of some CFRP components. From what I will be able to tell, it might be a whole size (D1, D2, D3 sized SLR). The ease being increased stiffness and a slight reduction in mass.

Not mentioned but a given: Sounds expensive. [ NikonRumors via CrunchGear ]

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This post is tagged: aerospace materials, auto industry, carbon fibre, carbon-fiber, fatigue testing