Monthly Archives: January 2011

Polaroid “GREY” press event is today

Polaroid is expected to reveal the next generation of instant cameras today at 3:30pm PST as part of the series of announcements during CES 2011. The word on the street is that Chase Jarvis will be involved in the event. Lady Gaga also seems to have some involvement in this project.

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Today is CES press day (part 2)

The Pentax firmware I reported yesterday is now official. Samsung dropped 4 more camcorders and a new, dual screen point and shoot camera. Casio announced the previously leaked TRYX and a point and shoot camera with back-illuminated CMOS sensor. Panasonic announced camcorders and several entry level compact cameras. Sony also did their camera announcements including the 3D Bloggie camera […]

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Watch the CES Sony press event live now

You can watch Sony CES press conference live starting at 5pm PST today: update: the online live event is now over

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Today is CES press day (Fuji, Canon, Sony)

Today is press day at CES 2011. Many new products will be announced in the next few hours. On the camera site so far there are no big surprises from what was already reported: Fuji announced eleven new point and shoot models. You can read more about the different Fuji cameras and their new EXR-CMOS BSI sensor […]

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Pentax released new firmware for K-5, K-r and 645D

Pentax just released new firmware updates not only for the K-5, but also for the K-r (ver. 1.01) and 645D (ver. 1.01) cameras. The firmware can be downloaded from network.pentax.eu. Update: the firmware updates are now official.

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Fuji X100 design story

Fuji released another X100 chapter and this time they are describing the design of the camera. Included are also pictures of the leather case. In the ongoing poll for favorite camera of 2010, the Fuji x100 is currently taking the #2 spot (out of aprox. 1800 voters so far). More product pictures after the break:

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Update: What to expect for CES 2011 (and what’s announced already)

CES 2011 show is starting in two days in Las Vegas. Here is a list of what was announced already (scroll down for the list of upcoming announcements): The three new cameras from Kodak that leaked on Amazon are already announced: Lexar released a 128GB SDXC memory card: Samsung announced a new Wi-Fi enabled SH100, NX11 and WB700 cameras: […]

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Fuji’s two top cameras for CES 2011

Shown below are the two high end cameras to be introduced by Fuji at CES 2011: FinePix HS20EXR: 16 MP EXR-CMOS sensor 30x, 24mm-720mm equivalent lens 3.0” LCD electronic viewfinder

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