Monthly Archives: February 2010

Another Canon product launch on February 23

DigitalREV wrote on their twitter page that they were invited for “another Canon product launch” on February 23rd:

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Another day, another countdown timer

Today’s countdown timer is brought to you by Olympus and is related to a Four Thirds product: And few more Olympus related updates: Olympus E-P1 (white) has been discontinued @B&H Interesting: Micro Four Thirds 55mm f/1.0 lens for sale on eBay

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Pentax 645D – is this the final version?

Two pictures of Pentax 645D courtesy of Pentax Japan – this is probably the final version that will be revealed on the teaser ad (click for larger view): As you can see the back picture is slightly different from the one I published yesterday more buttons, different side cover. How do I know this will […]

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Pentax 645D is revealing itself slowly

The Pentax 645D teaser is actually slowly displaying more details of the camera – now we can see the shutter release: The teaser started on February 9th. Six days later the progress bar is aprox, 1/5 of the way to the end. That means the official announcement should somewhere around March 9th-10th, 2010. There were […]

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Two more Samsung cameras @ PMA

User Redcrow from dpreview (who has provided some valid info in the past) just wrote about two new Samsung cameras that will be shown @ PMA: New WB1000 successor New BSI image sensor (CMOS) Full HD video recording Sweep panorama feature loaded A higher line camera (than WB series) New 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor 24mm, 3x […]

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Samsung in 2010

The latest Samsung rumors: Samsung will have 10 NX lenses by the end of 2010 (they already have 4 so far: 30mm, 18-55mm with and without IS, and 50-200mm) Samsung will introduce a new, cheaper NX camera at PMA Samsung will introduce a high-end compact at PMA (less megapixels, high-end lens) All confirmed by Samsung Benelux […]

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New Noktor f/0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds

Some readers (hit the comments section for more links) have already noted that this lens is probably based on an existing f/0.95 lens for CCTV made by different manufacturers: Details are still sketchy. Here are some info captured by Google Cache: With a maximum aperture of F/0.95, the Noktor Hyperprime is the fastest lens designed […]

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Hasselblad H4D-40 presentation

Here is the official video from Hasselblad: More detailed videos from each of the featured photographers after the break:

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Sony EVIL camera specs

Sony has expressed their interest in releasing an EVIL camera before. Here ere are some detailed specs of the upcoming mirrorless camera from Sony: 14mp APS-C CMOS brand new Sony E mount used SDHC or MS RAW supported 3.0 LCD 920K color 11 AF point ISO 200-12800 video recording (model NEX5: 1080  NEX3:720p) format Mp4 or AVCHD […]

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Pentax will have another product release this month

The rumored date for the next Pentax announcement is February 24, 2010 (it could be +/- 1day in the US). This is weird because PMA ends at February 23rd. My guess is that this announcement will be for the recently leaked Pentax W90, which appears to be another waterproof p&s camera. Not sure why this […]

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