News/Rumors/Links recap

• 14 years ago
• Categories: Future of Photo Equipment, Leica, Samsung, Samyang

• "Flip Slide HD" camcorder coming soon.

• Samsung laptop webcams will shoot 1080p video - CMOS sensor can now record 1080p video at 30fps.

• Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Aspherical IF MC Fisheye lens for Olympus (4/3 bayonet mount) now available for sale on eBay. Samyang also announced some new lenses:

Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ED IF Aspherical MC with fastenings for all systems.

Samyang 85mm f/1.4 IF UMC AE version of the Nikon mount - this is a new generation of portrait lens, with a new type of anti-reflective coating and built-in chip transmitting data to the camera focal length, aperture and other parameters. Other parameters remain unchanged.

Samyang MC 85mm f/1.4 IF-mount version of the Olympus 4/3.

• The latest from LeicaRumors.com: Leica Cinema lenses now official and a new Leica C-Lux 20 point and shoot camera to be released soon.

• Sell of mirrorless cameras in the UK jumps 170% in February compared to previous year. True that last February there were not so many models available, but this is still an imp-ressive stats: "More than one in ten interchangeable lens cameras sold in February were of the mirrorless variety".

• Chase Jarvis and others launched creativelive.com where you can watch free photography related classes. They also offer other training sessions (programming, etc).