Monthly Archives: April 2010

New Sony EVIL video

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Coming soon: Schneider Kreuznach lenses with NX mount

Schneider Kreuznach has signed a partnership with Samsung for future release of lenses with NX mount. Those lenses would be designed by Schneider and built in Korea by Samsung/Optron-Tech with Schneider’s supervision and quality control. This new lenses product line will be named “SX”. The following models are expected to be released in 2010: 15mm f/2.3 […]

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Sony EVIL camera commercial

Update: here is the original post (Google translated): “I’m going to Germany to be recorded for a Sony Europe launching cam video of a new model. Good experience! See you in 5 days!” Alonso Diaz (Sony UK Ambassador) just came back from Germany and the rumor is that he was shooting TV commercial for the upcoming Sony […]

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Sony promises their EVIL camera for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Sony Europe promotes the launch of a “revolutionary new ultra-compact α digital camera” for FIFA 2010 (it will take place in South Africa from from June 11 – July 11, 2010). This time frame matches with previous rumors that pointed to a possible official launch of the Sony EVIL system somewhere in May, 2010.

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Pentax joining Micro Four Thirds?

Back in September of 2009 Pentax did acknowledge that they are evaluating the m4/3 option. Today Valentin Sama wrote on his blog: “From very well informed sources, we could know that in Hoya-Pentax it is very seriously considered the, rather than convenience, necessity to enter “in the Micro Four Thirds” Via PentaxForum

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Official announcements from the past few days

Some of the NAB announcements (see rumor here): Sony to release an “affordable” 35mm digital cinema camera to compete with RED: Zeiss released a series of compact prime lenses for digital and film cameras with PL (Arri), EF (Canon) and F (Nikon) mounts including a new lightweight zoom LWZ.2 lens for HDSLR cameras: Flip Slide […]

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Rumor: 2011 iPhone with a 8MP sensor from Sony

The Street reported that Apple has picked a 8MP sensor from Sony for the upcoming 2011 iPhone: “Apple has picked Sony’s 8-megapixel camera chip for the 2011 iPhone, according to supply and manufacturing sources, said Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar.” OmniVision reported that Apple ordered 5MP sensors from them for the next, 2010  iPhone. 2010: 5MP 2011: 8MP […]

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Sony to release their EVIL camera(s) in the next few weeks

Some rumors point to an April 18th announcement of the new Sony EVIL cameras: “18 april is the press-release of this camera, the camera shall be different , than we see at the PMA and maybe we get some more information , about some other thinks but that I don’t now for sure” Others rumors indicate an official release […]

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