Monthly Archives: December 2012

Sony SLT a37, a57 cameras and 70-400mm lens listed as discontiunued

By PR admin | Published: December 19, 2012

Sony Japan listed the Sony a37 and 70-400mm f/4-5.6 G SSM lens as discontinued. B&H recently also listed one of the a57 camera configurations as discontinued: The Sony a37 was announced in May 2012, the a57 was introduced in March, 2012.

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The latest patent applications from Tamron, Canon and Sony

By PR admin | Published: December 19, 2012

Tamron Patent 2012-242504 from Tamron is for a 300mm f/2.8 full frame lens for mirrorless cameras (?): Canon Patent 2012-247451 from Canon is for a 50mm f/1.2 lens: Canon 50mm f/1.2 full frame lens patent (for DSLR cameras) The next example is interesting – it looks like Canon filed a patent for a 50mm f/2.0 full frame mirrorless lens: Canon […]

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Kodak selling patents for $525 million

By PR admin | Published: December 19, 2012

Kodak will get approximately $525 million for its patents portfolio. This was a necessary step in order to get the previously reported $793 million in financing in order to exit from bankruptcy and continue as a commercial printing company. Full press release:

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This is the Polaroid IM1836 (Android based mirrorless interchangeable lens camera)

By PR admin | Published: December 17, 2012

I just received those new images of the already leaked Android based IM1836 interchangeable lens camera from Polaroid that were published on a Russian social media network. The only new addition to the previously reported specs is that the IM1836 will use MicroSD memory cards.  

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Polaroid to announce an Android based mirrorless interchangeable lens camera

By PR admin | Published: December 17, 2012

Polaroid is expected to announce the world’s first compact, interchangeable lens, Android based, mirrorless camera. Here are the details: Model name: IM1836 (this is probably not the final name) Powered by Android 4 3.5″ touchscreen 18.1MP sensor Pop-up flash Built-in Wi-Fi HDMI and headphones outputs Panorama, blink detection functions Update: see also this related post. […]

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Fujifilm XF1 and X10 win 2013 iF Product Design Award

By PR admin | Published: December 16, 2012

Fujifilm won the 2013 iF Product Design Award for their XF1 and X10 cameras:

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Nauticam NA-NEX5R underwater housing for Sony NEX-5R mirrorless camera

By PR admin | Published: December 16, 2012

Nauticam announced the NA-NEX5R underwater housing for Sony NEX-5R mirrorless camera with a depth rating of 100m:

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