Monthly Archives: July 2010

Bad timing for Samsung and Fuji

Few hours after Panasonic, Samsung announced two new dual view point and shoot cameras – the ST100 and the ST600. In case you are interested: Full press release Fuji did the same thing – two new p&s models: Fujifilm Z800EXR Fujifilm F300EXR Pre-orders: Z800 | F300

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Panasonic LX5 and four other cameras now official

LX5 sample gallery at dpreview (more samples available here) Full LX5 press release AP sees the LX5 as a direct competitor to the Canon G11 Pre-order options for LX5 | FZ100 | FZ40 | FX700 | TS10

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Samsung to release two new cameras with dual view

In addition to Panasonic’s announcement tomorrow (LX5, FZ100K, FZ40k and FX700K), Samsung is also expecting to release two new new point and shoot cameras with dual view in the next few days.

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Canon EVIL

Canon followed Nikon’s footsteps and made a confession to Reuters: Maeda also said the company was working on a smaller version of its upmarket single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras in a bid to compete with the new breed of mid-range so-called “mirrorless” cameras launched by Sony Corp, Olympus Corp, and Panasonic Corp. “It’s not a question of […]

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Rumor: Pentax K-5, Super K-7 to be released for Photokina

The latest rumors are that Pentax is preparing to announce two new DLSR bodies for Photokina. The Pentax K-5 will fit between the current K-x and K-7 models and the “Super K-7” model will be a higher version of the K-7 DSLR.

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A much better Panasonic LX5 leak (directly from the mothership)

Panasonic’s website leaked the long expected Panasonic LX5: direct link direct link Main differences between the LX5 and the older LX3: the LX5 has 3.8x zoom 24-90mm (the LX3 has 2.5x and ends with 60mm) LX3 has 8 elements in 6 groups, 4 aspherical lenses and 4 aspherical surfaces. LX5 will have 10 elements in 9 […]

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Panasonic DMC-FZ100K and DMC-FZ40k also leaked

Direct link on Panasonic’s website Full specs after the break:

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