Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Impossible Project press event (future of Polaroid)

By PR admin | Published: March 22, 2010

The Impossible Project will have a press conference in New York today. Expected are some announcements about the future of Polaroid.

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Pentax 645D is coming to Poland

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2010

Pentax Poland is now displaying the new medium format Pentax 645D camera on their website and some online stores have it listed as avaailable in July 2010: Via PentaxForums

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Pentax 645D will start shipping on May 20th in Japan

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2010

According to Amazon Japan, Pentax 645D will start shipping on May 20th, 2010: The price is ￥848,000 with tax (around $9370). Amazon Japan does not ship electronics to other countries (for now the 645D will be sold only in Japan). Some other sites, like JapanTrendShop.com will probably offer shipping outside Japan for a premium.

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Something ‘big’ is coming from SanDisk

By PR admin | Published: March 20, 2010

SanDisk via Engadget

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Olympus is working on a m4/3 camera with built-in EVF

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2010

This is a recap of an interview with Olympus published in the Spanish DSLRmagazine: Olympus is working on a m4/3 camera with built-in EVF. Quote: “the technology is already here…” The answer to whether the E-5 will come at Photokina “Not only possible, but highly possible.” Three more MicroFourThirds lenses are expected to be released in the 12 […]

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Samsung working on a full frame camera

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2010

The rumor mill has sloweed down significantly after PMA 2010. Many companies are preparing to release their best products before Photokina in September. I did however received a rumor from oversee that Samsung is working on a full frame camera. No further details were given, but the announcement could happened at Photokina this year. Since […]

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Olympus working on E-3 replacement, promises more 4/3 cameras (mirror and mirrorless)

By PR admin | Published: March 16, 2010

In an interview with AP, Olympus confirmed for the second time that they are not going to stop producing DSLR cameras (see previous post). They also confirmed that they are working on an E-3 replacement but did not specify any further details.

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The latest Panasonic patents

By PR admin | Published: March 16, 2010

Panasonic patent for what appears to be a GH2 model with a metal body: “The main claim of this patent is the ‘heat radiators and heat conductors’ inside a ‘metal body’ which remove heat from around the image processing unit and the CMOS sensor itself. The CMOS image sensor 110 is able to acquire high-resolution […]

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