Monthly Archives: February 2010

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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