Monthly Archives: July 2015

The latest patents: Canon EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 STM and Tamron 24mm f/2 VC lenses and a new Toshiba sensor design

  → Canon filed a patent for a EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 STM and EF-S 15-105mm f/2.8-5.6 STM lenses. → Tamron has a patent for a new 24mm f/2 VC full frame lens designed for DSLR cameras.

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What else is new?

→ Price drop: the Pentax K-3 II DSLR camera is now $935.24 (the K-3 is $749). → Expires today: $300 off on the Sony a7 mirrorless camera. → The Sony RX100 MIV camera is now shipping and is currently in stock. The camera manual can be downloaded here. → The Panasonic Lumix CM1 camera and smartphone with […]

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New: MindShiftGear FirstLight backpacks designed to carry large lenses (up to 600mm)

MindShift Gear released their first three outdoor photography backpacks specifically designed to carry large lenses and to comply with airline carry on requirements. The FirstLight packs come in three sizes, so you can carry anything from a 70-200 to a 600mm:

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New Olympus E-M10 Mark II camera on the horizon

The Indonesian Communication Agency has a new listing on their website for a Olympus E-M10 Mark II camera that will be a replacement for the current E-M10 version. The official announcement should be in 30-90 days. The new camera will be produced in Vietnam. Via Digicame-info

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Top 10 PhotoRumors posts for May and June 2015

         The top 10 PhotoRumors posts for June, 2015: Venus Optics announces the Laowa 15mm f/4 – the world’s widest 1:1 macro lens Sony a7R II camera announced First leaked picture of the Ricoh GR II camera The upcoming DxO ONE camera has 1″ sensor and attaches to your smartphone This is the new DxO […]

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Panasonic talks about 8K video again (ready by 2020)

The Japanese website nikkan.co.jp reports that Panasonic will have cameras with 8k video recording capabilities by 2020. The company is currently working on the development of next-generation image processing large-scale integrated circuit (10th generation high-speed image processing Venus Engine): Panasonic has developed a digital camera and broadcast business camera the number of pixels corresponding to the […]

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Fuji explains why they do not have a full frame camera

In this interview, Takashi Ueno from Fujifilm explains in details why Fuji decided go with an APS-C sensor in their cameras and not with full frame that would eventually provide better image quality:

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