Monthly Archives: April 2011

Sony announced new HVL-F43AM flash and other accessories

Sony announced a new flash and several other accessories today. Press release:

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Tomorrow Sony will announce a new flash unit and accessories

Tomorrow Sony will announce several new products. There will be no new camera announcements. One of the new products will be a new Sony flash unit, the rest will be new camera accessories.

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Eye-Fi Direct Mode allows instant upload to iPhone, iPad or Android devices

In the next few week Eye-Fi will release the free Direct Mode module that will allow instant pictures upload to iPhone, iPad or Android devices. See this Eye-Fi Pro 8GB  SDHC X2 review for all other options offered by the X2 Wi-Fi cards. Press release:

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New ThinkTank Photo Retrospective 5 bag for Micro Four Thirds or rangefinder camera systems

Today ThinkTank Photo announced a new Retrospective 5 bag. This is the first bag from ThinkTank especially designed for Micro Four Thirds or rangefinder camera systems. I got an early pre-production version few days ago and here are some images:

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PhotoRumors Giveaway #5: Digital Holga ultimate kit for Nikon or Canon

What can I win? In this giveaway you can win a Digital Holga Ultimate Kit for Nikon or Canon DSLR from HolgaDirect. How do I win? The rules are simple: “Like” the HolgaDirect Facebook page “Like” the PhotoRumors Facebook page Leave a comment to this blog post OR Follow HolgaDirect on Twitter Follow PhotoRumors on […]

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Digital film design concept

After the RE-35 April Fool’s prank, a group of students from Hongik University designed another “digital film” concept: While we are on the digital film topic, you can read few interesting comments from someone who used to work for Silicon Film back in 2001 in this thread (search for Jon). I am expecting/hoping Jon will share some more […]

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Sigma patents 500mm f/4 lens

Sigma filed a patent in Japan for a new 500mm f/4 lens. Sigma currently has a 500mm f/4.5 EX DG APO HSM model that was announced back in 2005:

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