Monthly Archives: July 2010

Hoya Corp. filed a patent for a water-resistant, interchangeable lens camera

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2010

Hoya filed a patent back in 2007 of what appears to be a water-resistant interchangeable lens camera: The full patent 7756405 can be found here: “Field of the invention: The present invention relates to an interchangeable lens which is selectively mountable to a packing-compatible camera body and a packing-incompatible camera body, and also relates to a camera system which [...]

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Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens to be announced at Photokina

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2010

This is the response from Samyang regarding the upcoming 35mm f/1.4 lens: “We would like to show a sample on Photokina. It starts 21 September of this year. 35mm will be 1.4 we don’t plan to make it 1.2. It should be available at the end of this year.” You can see the complete email [...]

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Tamron to announce the price of the SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD lens on July 29th

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

Update: the price in Europe seems to be € 449,00. Tamron will announce the price of the new Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD lens on July 29th, 2010 (+/- 1 day depending on your location). This lens was released back in March, 2010 (see full press release). The Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di [...]

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Interesting links from the past week

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

What you may have missed  this week: Digital Holga prototype. Why not? Did you notice this? The uneventful announcement of the Fujifilm FinePix F300EXR point and shoot camera brought us a new Hybrid Auto Focus System – first in the world: “Enhanced with built-in phase detection pixels, Super CCD EXR is the first sensor in the [...]

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Pansonic HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder leaks out

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

As previously reported the 3D effect is achieved by a 3D adapter that attaches to the front lens: “World’s first 3D shooting camcorder” 1080p AVCHD at 60fps proprietary Hybrid O.I.S. The leak came from Panasonic’s own website again: Via Engadget

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