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Canon announcement on August 14th: new camera and two lenses

By PR admin | Published: July 6, 2015

NL reports that Canon will have a new product announcement on August 14th, 2015. Rumored are a new camera and two lenses.

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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

By PR admin | Published: July 6, 2015

  → 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?

By PR admin | Published: July 4, 2015

→ 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)

By PR admin | Published: July 2, 2015

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

By PR admin | Published: July 2, 2015

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

By PR admin | Published: July 1, 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)

By PR admin | Published: July 1, 2015

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

By PR admin | Published: July 1, 2015

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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Sony raising money to concentrate on developing image sensors, pulls away from consumer goods

By PR admin | Published: June 30, 2015

Sony Corporations is planing to raise nearly $4 billion with issuing new shares and bonds in order to invest in stacked image sensor R&D and production while pulling back from consumer goods where they lost money in the past:

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Sigma reports live view issues when using some of their lenses on the Canon EOS 5Ds and 5DsR cameras

By PR admin | Published: June 30, 2015

In addition to the service advisory from Tamron, Sigma also reported a live view issues (images are not being displayed) when using the following lenses with the Canon EOS 5Ds and 5DsR cameras:

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