Monthly Archives: May 2012

What else is new?

Adobe Creative Cloud is now live, here are the different pricing options: Canon filed a patent application in Japan for automatic tracking of celestial objects by shifting the sensor. Canon recently announced the EOS 60Da DSLR camera tailored for astronomy photography. Canon also filed a patent that will allow photographers to obscure some of the embedded EXIF data for privacy.

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Sony A99 specs

Some rumored Sony A99 specs found on xitek.com: The Sony A99 camera will have 24.3 MP full frame sensor. The A99 will have 102 focus points. Two different A99 prototypes are being evaluated – one of them has a flip and touch screen. The A99 will have 3 million pixel high-definition EVF. To be announced in September […]

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Next week announcement: Sony a37 and NEX-F3 cameras

  Next week, on May 17th, Sony will announce their new Sony a37 and NEX-F3 cameras. You can find the detailed specs in this post. Images of the new cameras can be found here and here.

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Samsung to slowly abandon point and shoot cameras and concentrate on mirrorless

Samsung reminded us again that they want to become “the biggest mirrorless camera vendor by 2015 with a more than twenty-percent market share“. In order to achieve that, the company will be slowly phasing out its point and shoot cameras production and concentrate entirely on mirrorless solutions: “low-end compact camera offerings will gradually be reduced, as […]

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Those are the new Leica products

If you are not following LeicaRumors, this is what Leica announced today: Leica M9-P Hermes limited edition ($50,000) Leica M9 Monochrom B&W digital rangefinder ($7,195) Leica X2 compact digital camera ($1,995) Leica V-Lux 40 point and shoot camera ($699) Leica 50mm f/2 APO-Summicron-M Aspherical lens ($7,195) New medium format S lenses and Hasselblad H-system lens adapter  

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The latest rebates from Olympus, Sony, Canon and Nikon

Those are the latest rebates on photo equipment: Olympus Sony Canon Nikon

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New Olympus 12-120mm f/4-5.6 lens patent

Olympus filed a patent in Japan for a 12-120mm f/4-5.6 lens with several different variations:

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SLR Magic to release new 25mm/35mm T0.95 lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX cameras

SLR Magic plans to release a new 25mm T0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras and a new 35mm T0.95 lens for APS-C sized cameras (I assume for Sony NEX). The new lenses will be on the same quality level as the full frame SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens, which looks and performs very similar to the $11,000 Leica Noctilux – […]

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New Lens/Focus shifter – lens mounted follow focus project on Kickstarter

The Lens/Focus Shifter is a low budget ‘follow focus’ product which attaches to lenses with circumferences from 176mm to 308mm, or lenses like the 50mm f/1.8 to the larger zoom lenses. The great thing about this product is that it attaches to these lenses without the need of rails, with the simple attachment mechanism it […]

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Olympus TG-1 iHS Tough camera announced

Today Olympus announced the previously leaked TG-1 iHS Tough camera. This is probably the best rugged camera on the market today. Main Features: The TG-1 is equipped with a bright, high-speed f2.0 lens. Combined with iHS technology, this lens vastly improves shooting and image quality in low-light scenes. Equipped with the strongest capabilities ever included on a […]

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 starts shipping tomorrow

Adobe Photoshop CS6 will start shipping tomorrow: for Americas and Europe, CS6 will start shipping on May 7, 2012, for the rest of the world the shipping date is May 10, 2012. Individuals upgrade to Photoshop CS6 will be available only on Adobe.com: The following products are now available in version CS6 with pre-orders beginning today:

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What else is new?

This 3.2 gigapixel camera has 189 image sensors. The new Triggertrap app offers several interesting ways to trigger a camera by using the iPhone sensors. New and improved instant Polaroid film made by former employees.

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