Monthly Archives: May 2012

Canon to implement machine-only production by 2012

By PR admin | Published: May 15, 2012

By 2015 Canon is planning to implement a complete robots/machines only camera production. This move was triggered by the expensive yen and the trend of Japanese companies to move productions in other parts of Asia. Read more on Yahoo and Engadget.

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What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: May 13, 2012

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

By PR admin | Published: May 13, 2012

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

By PR admin | Published: May 11, 2012

  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

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2012

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

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2012

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

By PR admin | Published: May 9, 2012

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

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