Monthly Archives: February 2016

Canon wants to be the #2 mirrorless camera manufacturer, will “ship a lot of mirrorless products” at the end of 2016

In a recent interview with the Japanese website ascii.jp, Canon President of Marketing Sakata Masahiro confirmed that they are planning to “ship a lot of mirrorless products” in the third and fourth quarter of 2016. This means a possible new Canon mirrorless camera announcement for Photokina (September). Canon has ambitions to take the second spot in the […]

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Samsung cameras on display removed from B&H store in NYC

B&H recently replaced their Samsung display in their superstore in NYC with handheld video cams. Last week there were Samsung cameras on the same spot. B&H still lists Samsung cameras on their website. In the past few months there have been multiple reports indicating that Samsung is pulling out of the camera business or at least putting […]

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FujiAddict.com now live

If you want to get additional coverage and information on everything Fuji, you should follow the new FujiAddict.com website. Major Fuji stories will still be covered here on PhotoRumors.com. Louis (who has done multiple posts on LeicaRumors) will be the driving force behind FujiAddict.com and I will be jumping in every once in a while to fill […]

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What else is new?

→ Check out the Filmtoaster – it lets you digitize your own film archive with a digital camera (available on Amazon). → New Plustek OpticFilm 135 film scanner announced (price: $399). → PhaseOne and ALPA announced a new A-series IQ3 100MP camera system. → Check out the current Olympus and Panasonic rebates. → Olympus released new firmware updates for the E-M1 and E-M5 […]

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Sony a6300 camera announced

Sony just announced a new a6300 mirrorless camera with 24MP sensor, 4k video and 425 AF points. The price for body only is 998 (pre-orders will open on February 10th, shipping will start in March). The rest of the specs: 24.2MP APS-C Exmor CMOS Sensor BIONZ X Image Processor XGA Tru-Finder 2.36m-Dot OLED EVF 3.0″ […]

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Sony launches new G master brand of interchangeable lenses

Sony introduced a new G master brand of interchangeable lenses and announced the first three models: Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM standard zoom lens (price: $2,198): E-Mount Lens/Full-Frame Format Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22 One XA Element, Two Aspherical Elements One ED Element, One Super ED Element Nano AR Coating Direct Drive SSM Focus System Internal Focus Design […]

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Panasonic develops organic CMOS sensor with global shutter that uses organic photoconductive film developed by Fuji

Panasonic published some information on their organic CMOS sensor with global shutter that uses organic photoconductive film developed by Fuji:

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Canon EOS-1D X Mark II DSLR camera officially announced

The Canon EOS-1D X Mark II DSLR camera is now officially announced. Pre-orders are open at Adorama | B&H |Amazon | WEX (UK). Sample photos can be found here. The new flagship Canon model features several firsts for EOS cameras including: Newly developed 20.2 megapixel 35mm Full Frame Canon CMOS sensor; Continuous shooting speeds of up-to-14 frames per […]

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