NIKON IMAGE SPACE and Nikon Imaging Cloud
- Free allowance
- NIKON IMAGE SPACE, with its free tiers and the SnapBridge upload, was terminated on 2026-10-15.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe service was terminated on 2026-10-15 and all stored data is deleted on 2027-04-15 13:00 JST
- Evidence
- reported16 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-19
| Free tier | NIKON IMAGE SPACE, with its free tiers and the SnapBridge upload, was terminated on 2026-10-15. Its replacement, the image storage of Nikon Imaging Cloud, is 5 GB unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | retention-clamped The service ended on 2026-10-15, so the retention clamp is complete. |
| Identity | email a Nikon ID, free to create; the 5 GB image storage is not tied to a registered product |
| Egress | Standard CDN, images only |
| Per-object cap | Not published; Nikon Imaging Cloud storage accepts JPG, RAW, HEIF and TIFF images |
| Retention | The service was terminated on 2026-10-15 09:00 JST and replaced by Nikon Imaging Cloud with 5 GB; stored images are not migrated, a bulk download is open from 2026-10-15 12:00 to 2027-04-15 13:00 JST, and all data is deleted at that time |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | no public API. SnapBridge is the only ingest path |
| Composes with | The only unlimited thing is a 2-megapixel downscaled JPEG, which is the ingest-re-encode trap in its purest form: the bytes that come back are not the bytes you sent. |
| Reliability | Terminated on 2026-10-15 09:00 JST. Stored images are not migrated to the replacement and are deleted on 2027-04-15 13:00 JST. The replacement offers 5 GB |
| Notes | Recorded with its death date because the death is the finding. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 16
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.nikonusa.com/content/nikon-image-space | 'The NIKON IMAGE SPACE service will be terminated on October 15, 2026'; '2GB of space just for signing up' |
| 2026-10-21 | info.nikonimagespace.com/ja_JP/welcome.html | '誰でも2GB。ニコン製品をお持ちのお客様は20GBまで無料' |
| 2026-10-21 | snapbridge.nikon.com/ | 'free, unlimited automatic upload of 2-megapixel images', so the unlimited tier is downscaled |
| 2026-11-03 | imagingcloud.nikon.com/ | Nikon Imaging Cloud lists Image Space as a 5 GB image storage service with sharing, usable with cameras that Imaging Cloud does not support |
| 2026-11-03 | imagingcloud.nikon.com/ | Nikon Imaging Cloud lists the 5 GB image storage service |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | the replacement storage is 5 GB and accepts JPG, RAW, HEIF and TIFF files |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | bulk download ends 2027-04-15 13:00 JST and all stored images and registration data are deleted |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | the service ended 2026-10-15 09:00 JST |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | 5 GB storage, JPG, RAW, HEIF and TIFF |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | stored data is deleted at the end of the bulk download period, 2027-04-15 13:00 JST |
| 2026-11-03 | nij.nikon.com/news/products/2026/0825.html | deletion date of stored images |
| 2026-11-03 | imagingcloud.nikon.com/ | a Nikon ID is free to create and is the login for the service |
| 2026-11-03 | www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/cloud-storage/nikon-image | third-party report of the shutdown and the bulk download window |
| 2026-11-03 | www.nikonimagespace.com/ | the first-party site states the service was terminated |
| 2026-11-03 | nikonrumors.com/2026/08/25/nikon-image-space-is-no-more-niko | English copy of the notice: all data is permanently deleted at the end of the bulk download period |
| 2026-11-03 | imagingcloud.nikon.com/ | a Nikon ID is free to create |
More fields 5
| access mode | registration-gated |
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| closed | 2026-10-15 |
| replacement | Nikon Imaging Cloud, 5 GB |
| downscales at ingest | yes |
| aliases | ["NIKON IMAGE SPACE / Nikon Imaging Cloud"] |
Unknown values 1
- interface: the access interface was not established