Monthly Archives: May 2010

Here is the new Sony EVIL NEX 3 (freshly leaked)

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010
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Full official specs: Image Sensor: 14.2 million effective pixels. Metering: Multi pattern, centre-weighted and spot. Sensor Size: APS-C-sized CMOS (23.4×15.6mm). Lens: Sony E Series mount. Shutter Speed: 30 to 1/4000 second. Flash sync: 1/160 sec. Continuous Shooting: seven fps. Memory: Memory Stick PRO Duo, PRO-HG Duo, SD, SDHC, SDXC cards. Image Sizes (pixels): 4592×3056, 4592×2576, [...]

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Sony α900 is now officially discontinued

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010
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Sony α900 is listed as discontinued on Sony’s Hong Kong website:

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Photo rumors from around the web

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010
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Tomorrow is Sony’s day: the new NEX3 and NEX5 EVIL Alpha cameras will be unveiled. New Samsung HZ50W ( model WB5500 in Europe) point and shoot camera is coming soon. The rumored specs are: Samsung CMOS sensor Sensor size: 1/2.33″ Resolution: 14.5MPx (4400×3300) Pixel: 1.10um Transfer rate: 15fps Maybe the Samsung NX5 will be announced [...]

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Future tech: Omni-Focus

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010
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“University of Toronto, a world-leading research university, announces a breakthrough development in video camera design. The Omni-focus Video Camera, based on an entirely new distance-mapping principle, delivers automatic real-time focus of both near and far field images, simultaneously, in high resolution. This unprecedented capability can be broadly applied in industry, including manufacturing, medicine, defense, security [...]

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Carl Zeiss goes mobile

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010
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I keep reading about the latest cell phone cameras news – Apple of course dominates the headlines (see next iPhone to Record 1280×720 HD Video & a new iPod touch with built-in camera), but then I noticed that the new Nokia N8 mobile phone will have a Zeiss lens for its 12 MP camera which Nokia claim to [...]

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Samsung NX5 approved by the Korean Radio Research Agency

By PR admin | Published: May 9, 2010
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The Korean Radio Research Agency has been a good source of information in the past since it has to approve electronic devices before they are officially released (see previous Samsunng NX10 and Olympus E-600 posts). Their latest entry is for the rumored Samsung NX5 camera: Here are the expected Samsung NX5 specs I received few [...]

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