Monthly Archives: May 2013

Panasonic GX2 rumored specifications

By PR admin | Published: May 22, 2013

Panasonic will soon be replacing their Lumix GX1 Micro Four Thirds camera. Here is the first wave of rumored specifications for the new model that could be called GX2 (the name is not confirmed yet): Tiltable built-in viewfinder Fastest shutter speed at 1/8000s New 18MP sensor Image stabilization Via Digicame-info

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Hasselblad Lunar mirrorless camera launch scheduled for May 30

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2013

A quick update on my last post: Hasselblad representatives were also present at the same Zeiss Touit event in Japan and announced the official launch dates for Lunar mirrorless cameras (the initial release was delayed). The first launch will start on May 30th in New York and then will move to Europe and Asia. This Lunar first […]

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Updated Zeiss roadmap hints for a new line of lenses

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2013

In a recent press event in Japan for the unveiling of the new Touit lenses, Zeiss showed an updated roadmap that in addition to the existing ZM, ZF/ZE/ZF.2, the not yet released high end DSLR and Touit lenses, also had a fifth unnamed product line marked with a question mark. Maybe this will be a new line of […]

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Olympus patents glasses with camera and display

By PR admin | Published: May 19, 2013

Olympus filed patent 2013-88725 in Japan for their own wearable computing device in the form of glasses, which similar to Google Glass, will also have a built-in camera and display. The patent doesn’t provide any other details or technical specifications. Few years ago Nikon released the Media Port UP300x head display and have also filed several related […]

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The code of the Samsung NX200 and NX300 mirrorless cameras is now available as open source

By PR admin | Published: May 18, 2013

A reader informed me that Samsung released the code for the NX200 and NX300 mirrorless cameras as open source based on the Cortex A9 quad core CPU and Neon coprocessor. This means that everyone can download it and make their own modifications, fix bugs, add new features, etc. As far as I know, this is the first major camera manufacturer to release […]

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The latest Canon patents

By PR admin | Published: May 18, 2013

Those are the latest Canon patents:

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What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: May 17, 2013

Think Tank Photo announced a new Test Drive program and the release of a new version of its largest rolling camera case, the Logistics Manager 30. With the Test Drive program you get to try out any of Think Tank’s very popular Retrospective soft shoulder bags for 30 days for free. Currently they are also running free FedEx […]

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