Monthly Archives: May 2010

Sony announced Cyber-shot phone in Japan

Few days ago Sony announced the S003 Cyber-shot phone in Japan. Here are the basic specs: 12.1 MP Sony Exmor image sensor 3.2 inch TFT display (480 x 854 pixels) with 16.7 million colors Dimensions: 118 x 52 x 17.6 mm Weighs 154 grams

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Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica

Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica lenses. The adapters are expected to be available in July, 2010. For more details visit DC.watch. This will make the Sony NEX cameras comparable to the m4/3 system cameras that already have all kinds of adapters available.

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Sony a290 and a390 kits listed on Belgian site

The announcement of the new Sony a290 and a390 DSLRs should be very soon – the different kits are already listed on a Belgian website: Source

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What is that? Contax digital rangefinder?

A reader sent me this picture – it appears to be a Contax rangefinder (just like this one here) but with some additional buttons. The additional dial appears to be the same as in recent Canon DSLRs (see this Canon dial sticker). Maybe a photoshopped stock image? The picture was published in the Outside magazine: Source: flickr You […]

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Mamiya RZ33 incoming

Mamiya has something new to show on May 25th – Mamiya RZ33: Source

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Sony A390 appears in a camera water housing specs

The first link that was posted on dpreview is already removed but reefphoto still lists the Ikelite SLR-DC Housing for Sony A230, A330 &A390: Sony α290 already leaked last week and based on the interview with Toru Katsumoto, the next set of Sony DSLR could very well be the Sony α290 and α390.

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Interview with Sony’s Toru Katsumoto

This is what Toru Katsumoto (Senior General Manager in Sony) had to say about the future Sony’s camera development in an interview with Quesabesde: “We are also developing new models in the Alpha range. This year we will introduce some new models of SLR.” He specifically confirmed that there is a room for new Alpha 200 and […]

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Camera Concepts (part 1)

Today’s Nikon D4x concept post caused some interesting comments/ideas on [NR]. I  went online and collected few more photography/cameras related concepts and would like to hear what you think: “Snap and Look” concept consist of a digital camera and a bigger photo viewer docking station that allows image editing (source, designer: Johanna Schoemaker): “Every Stalker’s Dream” […]

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