Monthly Archives: July 2010

RED EPIC update

By PR admin | Published: July 13, 2010

After some technical difficulties, the RED EPIC camera is back on track according to RED’s founder Jim Jannard: “. . . . we have located the wicked, mean and nasty bug and our engineering team has put a bullet in the back of it’s head. That pesky bug has put us behind in our schedule […]

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Another Panasonic camera in the pipeline: FZ100

By PR admin | Published: July 13, 2010

The Korean Radio Research Agency has been a pretty good source of information for upcoming cameras in the past, since it has to approve electronic devices before they are officially released in Korea (see previous Samsunng NX10 and Olympus E-600 posts). Their latest entry is for a new PanasonicFZ100 camera which is expected to be a replacement for the Panasonic FZ38:

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New Fuji point and shoot cameras incoming

By PR admin | Published: July 13, 2010

Some Fuji rumors: Fuji will be announcing new point and shoot cameras on July 21st. Expected is a replacement to their current W1 3D camera, which will be known as the W3. The new version will be more compact and will have a better LCD screen. There will also be a new F300 camera announced, and […]

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Olympus patent uses eye’s position and adjustable aspect ratio to frame pictures

By PR admin | Published: July 9, 2010

The idea behind this patent filed by Olympus is that the photographer can easily adjust the aspect ratio of the viewfinder with an adjustable frame: In addition, the patent suggest an eye detection device on the back of the camera that will follow the photographer’s eyes (similar to the current blink-detection technology) and will make the […]

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Canon announcement next week

By PR admin | Published: July 9, 2010

At the beginning of next week Canon will make new product announcement(s) in the printer, camera and camcorder categories. I have no further details at that point.

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New Panasonic camera was presented in Sweden

By PR admin | Published: July 8, 2010

The Italian website pmstudionews claims that Panasonic had a presentation of a new camera in Sweden (see first video on top; the video is in Italian). The details are similar to what was reported few days ago: point and shoot camera with m4/3 sensor, fixed 3x zoom  Leica lens (starting from 24mm f/2.0 on the […]

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Some Pentax rumors

By PR admin | Published: July 8, 2010

A rather controversial post, that was deleted for unknown reasons from the PentaxForum: “No FF plans until 2012 as 645D is filling this, Pentax may review this decision Mid – 2011. Three new models will be announced at Photokina. 1. K7 Super – a. Upgraded AF sensor 2. manual video with 720p60. 3. Same 14mp […]

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