Monthly Archives: November 2010

Sony also filed a patent for a liquid lens

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

Similar to Samsung, Sony also filed a patent for a liquid lens. Instead of rotating the focus ring, like on a traditional lens, liquid lenses are controlled by electricity that changes the different refractive indexes of the liquid the light passes through: “Disclosed is a liquid lens element. The liquid lens element includes a main body, a […]

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LG makes a camera phone with a Pentax lens

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

After the Panasonic Lumix Phone and the news about Olympus making an offer to buy a cell phone company, LG today announced a new camera-phone that looks more like a camera than a phone. The new LG L-03C has: 12.1MP camera 3x zoom lens made by Pentax with f/3.6-5.5 Xenon flash 3-inch LCD High ISO of 3200 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/3G […]

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Sony announces new Super 35mm digital motion picture camcorder

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

This is what Sony’s teaser was about – their new PMW-F3 Super 35mm digital motion picture camcorder: The new camera is available in two different flavors: PMW-F3K with three lenses (35mm, 50mm, 85mm) and PMW-F3L with PL mount adapter. The new cameras are expected to be released in February 2011. The price for the lens kit will […]

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Few pictures from PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

I finally got some time to upload few images from PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010 that ended last week. Pentax Pentax had a big table (not really a booth) with all of their latest products, including the 645D. You can download a sample RAW file taken with the 645D here (DropBox is great for sharing large […]

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Sony teaser about a new 35mm digital motion picture camera

By PR admin | Published: November 7, 2010

Sony has a new teaser out of what appears to be a video camera. The speculations are for a new digital motion picture camera with a “full frame” (35mm) sensor. The announcement is expected on November 17th, 2010. Via FDTimes

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New 29MP full frame CCD sensor from Kodak

By PR admin | Published: November 6, 2010

Kodak announced a new 29MP full frame (35mm) CCD sensor. The KAI-29050 sensor is “the highest resolution CCD image sensor based on Interline Transfer technology”. Highlights of the new sensor: features a true electronic (or global) shutter has a “plug-and-play” design for easy implementation 5.5-micron pixel supports up to 4 images per second 2x to 4x increase […]

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Pentax K-5 firmware update will be released soon

By PR admin | Published: November 5, 2010

Pentax is expecting to release new firmware update for the latest K-5 DSLR camera. The update will include: Increases the number of continuous shot at RAW and RAW+ mode (setting condition: RAW(PEF)/ISO100, increases the number of continuous shot from maximum approx. 8 frames to approx. 20 frames) Improved stability for general performance. Update: ok, I […]

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Photoshop expands to mobile devices

By PR admin | Published: November 5, 2010

There have been few hints in the past about a potential Adobe Lightroom version for the iPad (see here and here). In their latest presentation, Adobe showed content-aware fill on an Android tablet and paint mixing on an iPad that can be wirelessly transferred to your computer: It seems that the direction Adobe is taking, is to use mobile devices as […]

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