Few quick updates on the Olympus fraud accusations by their former CEO Michael Woodford: “Ousted Olympus Corp chief executive Michael Woodford is consulting police over whether he needs protection after passing “new information” to British fraud investigators about the Japanese company’s irregular payments to advisory firms” (Reuters) “The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure U.S. […]
Update: the Panasonic GX1 announcement will be on November 8th, 2011. According to digicame-info, Panasonic will announce a new Micro Four Thirds camera called GX1 with the following specs: appearance and size similar to the Lumix GF1 16MP sensor (from the G3) new image processing engine high ISO: 12800 very fast AF 920k touchscreen LVF2 […]
Samsung’s Global Download Centre had listing for the unreleased NX20 and NX1 cameras. Those model names are now removed. The Samsung NX1 is expected to be announced in 2012 and will probably be the top of the line NX camera. Few months ago there were rumors about a new prototype camera called R1 with the following specs:
Sony Japan publish a statement confirming Amazon’s product listing note that the NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 cameras will be postponed. It’s interesting to note that the a77 was not listed as delayed. No firm release dates were given:
There is a new Fuji X100 special edition for the Hong Kong market. The price is 14010 HKD (a regular x100 costs around 11360 HKD), only 200 pieces will be produced:
Here are few hands-on video of the new Lytro camera that got announced earlier today:
Sony NEX-7 is no longer available on Amazon “due to manufacturing concerns”. Similar to Nikon, Sony got hit very hard by the flooding in Thailand. Update: the Sony a65 is also removed from Amazon.
Today Olympus released an official response to the fraud accusations brought by the former CEO Michael Woodford:
Lytro’s new camera is now on their website. Check the specs and press release at the bottom of this post.
Engadget has a development story: Lytro has shown their light field camera for the first time. More to come… More pictures of the Lytro camera: -1- | -2- | -3- Prices: $399 for 8GB, $499 for 16 GB camera. See the live blog on AllThingsD and more details from Gizmodo. f/2 constant aperture lens, 8x optical zoom, no flash, touchscreen
