Monthly Archives: October 2011

GoPro HD HERO2 camera announced with the rumored Wi-Fi remote control

Back in August I mentioned about a rumor that GoPro will release a new accessory with a wireless remote trigger. Today GoPro announced the HD HERO2 camera with Wi-Fi remote control and video streaming: The price of the HD HERO2 is $299.

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The latest Canon instant rebates

Those are the latest Canon instant rebates that started yesterday:

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Nauticam NA-GF3 underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix GF3 announced

Nauticam announced the NA-GF3 underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 camera. The housing has a depth rating of 100m and costs $1650. Shipping starts on October 31, 2011.

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New: Kenko Lens2scope, a spotting scope adapter for lenses

I was doing some research online for lens scope converter in connection to a recent guest post on NikonRumors and it seems that Kenko recently released the Lens2scope – a spotting scope adapter for camera lenses, available for Nikon and Canon mounts. This adapter will let you use your existing lenses as a telescope with […]

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Olympus fraud accusations update

Few quick updates on the Olympus fraud accusations by their former CEO Michael Woodford: “Ousted Olympus Corp chief executive Michael Woodford is consulting police over whether he needs protection after passing “new information” to British fraud investigators about the Japanese company’s irregular payments to advisory firms” (Reuters) “The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure U.S. […]

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Rumor: Panasonic GX1 to be announced on November 8th (updated)

Update: the Panasonic GX1 announcement will be on November 8th, 2011. According to digicame-info, Panasonic will announce a new Micro Four Thirds camera called GX1 with the following specs: appearance and size similar to the Lumix GF1 16MP sensor (from the G3) new image processing engine high ISO: 12800 very fast AF 920k touchscreen LVF2 […]

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Samsung NX1, NX20 listings briefly showed up on support site

Samsung’s Global Download Centre had listing for the unreleased NX20 and NX1 cameras. Those model names are now removed. The Samsung NX1 is expected to be announced in 2012 and will probably be the top of the line NX camera. Few months ago there were rumors about a new prototype camera called R1 with the following specs:

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Sony NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 now officially delayed

Sony Japan publish a statement confirming Amazon’s product listing note that the NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 cameras will be postponed. It’s interesting to note that the a77 was not listed as delayed. No firm release dates were given:

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