Monthly Archives: February 2011

Close up of the new Samsung NX lenses (video)

This video shows the five new Samsung NX lenses in action:

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Sony NEX 3 discontinued and ready to be replaced

Sony Japan lists the NEX 3 mirrorless camera as discontinued on their website. It seems that the NEX products are on a 12 months refresh cycle (Sony NEX 3 was introduced in May of 2010).

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Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens to be released in March, possibility for a new tilt-shift lens

Samyang announced on Facebook that the new 35 mm f/1.4 AS UMC lens will start shipping next month (March, 2011):

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Fuji X100 hands-on (video)

Hands-on video review of the Fuji X100:

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Tamron patents image stabilizing teleconverter

Tamron filed a patent for a teleconverter with a built-in image stabilization. This will allow to add image stabilization to any existing/old lens by just adding this teleconverter. The teleconverter range was listed as x0.9 – x1.5. The patent describes also a switch that can turn on/off the image stabilization. Update: this patent was filed back in […]

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Canon will not be part of Focus on Imaging show in the UK

AP reported today that Canon has pulled out of the biggest UK photography show Focus on Imaging that will take place in Birmingham (March 6-9, 2011). If I remember correctly, Canon also did not take part of PMA show in the US last year. The future of those photography shows doesn’t look very bright since […]

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Samsung makes five NX lenses official

After the leak from last week, today Samsung officially announced the five new NX lenses: Samsung 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 ED OIS Samsung 16mm f/2.4 Samsung 60mm f/2.8 Macro ED OIS SSA Samsung 85mm f/1.4 ED SSA Samsung 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 OIS Press release:

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Noise cancellation is the future of quiet cameras

Few days ago NEC announced a new technology that should eliminate the AF/zooming lens noise during video recording. The sound of the moving lens is recorded and then subtracted in real time from the sound recorded by the microphone. Currently this technology is available only in the Casio Exilim EX-ZR10 compact camera. Update: the new Samsung WB700 camera has […]

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