Monthly Archives: February 2011

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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Fuji GF670W medium format film camera to be released next month

The Fuji GF670W was announced at Photokina 2010. The new medium format film camera is the wide angle version of the already existing Fujifilm GF670 rangefinder and will be rreleased on March 23rd in Japan. The Fuji GF670W has a Fujinon EBC 55mm f/4.5 lens (the previous version had a Fujinon EBC 80mm f/3.5 lens): Fuji GF670W specifications:

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Fuji X100 available for pre-order at Amazon

Amazon just started taking pre-orders for the FujiFilm X100 camera: The camera is expected to available in the US and Canada on March 18th.

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Samsung NX 2011 roadmap (GPS, new lenses)

A Korean blogger attended a presentation from Samsung that revealed the NX roadmap for 2011: the NX line will be divided into three categories: NX Style (NX100), NX Classic (NX10, NX11) and NX Classic + models are to be determined (slice #3) 180° panorama mode there is a 700mm prototype NX lens (slide #4) a new GPS module for NX […]

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SeaLife introduces new Dive & Sport Camera Mini II

SeaLife will introduce a new Mini II underwater camera in March of 2011. The camera will be waterproof up to 130ft (40m) and will cost $259.95. The camera has also an unbreakable, ruggedized, crushproof body as you can see in the next picture:

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Pentax manager on their mirrorless camera: “We’re on it” (NC-1)

DSLR magazine interviewed Mr. Kawauchi (Pentax Product Planning Manager) at the CP+ show last week and he pretty much confirmed the upcoming Pentax NC-1 mirrorless camera (computer translation): The answer, immediate, well-articulated, it is clear that is planned and well learned, but in any case seems elusive, since the logic is obvious: “Mirrorless concept is very attractive […]

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