Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Canon Rebel 1500D/T1 coming soon

The Canon Rebel 1500D/T1 will be announced very soon – intended for sale during the Christmas season. The key specs: Same 12MP sensor as 450D/XSi DIGIC IV Movie mode added: up to HD 1080, only 1 frame rate option at that size, 30fps Fixed LCD 460K dots No significant changes in size, weight or price. […]

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Sony flash HVL-F64AM specification sheet

I keep receiving detailed Sony specifications on rumored future products. This time we have a new flash unit HVL-F64AM: Full page view after the break:

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 released

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 was officially released today and is available on Amazon. As previously reported it will be available on October 22nd. Press release after the break:

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8/9 to be released on October 22

Amazon announced on their website that Adobe Photoshop Elements 8/9 (Win/Mac) will be released on October 22, 2009. The site is already removed, but here are the details: Key benefits of Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements 8 Resize your pictures at your leisure, without any distortion – you want to change the size or orientation […]

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PentaxRumors.com

For all Pentax fans – from now on you can use the www.PentaxRumors.com domain name to cut the crap and go directly to the latest Pentax rumors. You can of course use the categories/tags on the right to filter the rumors you are interested in.

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Price of expected Sigma SD15 DSLR camera revealed

A Scandinavian online store has the Sigma SD15 DSLR listed for a price of 9695 SEK (around $1400):

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OLED/AMOLED screens coming to a camera near you

The rumored Samsung NX3 camera will not be be the first camera with an AMOLED display (there is no substantial difference between OLED & AMOLED – Active Matrix is just a way of controlling individual pixels). OLED screens are already available on several models (as production costs are dropping): Nikon just released a p&s camera with a touchscreen […]

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Samyang to continue releasing new, fast lenses

Samyang is going to announce several new lenses in Q1 2010: two version of 35 mm for FF with max aperture f/1.4 for Nikon, Pentax, Sony and maybe Olympus 4/3. The second version with max aperture of f/1.2 will be only for Canon. Canon bayonet has a bigger diameter which will make this possible. It is […]

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Just for fun (Sony Alpha 1000 fakery)

Full sensor camcorder from Sony: Alpha 1000 coming in 2011. Yes it is fake, but something to think about. Source

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Sony Alpha A1R

I don’t know the credibility of this rumor (the whole pdf file can be downloaded here – why is the image not available?):

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