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Fuji X-Pro1 owner’s manual now available online

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

The Fuji X-Pro1 owner’s manual is now available for download. The XF lenses manual is available here. The Fuji guys now have a total of 24 X-Pro1 videos on YouTube.

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Few more Pentax K-01 details

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

Here are few more details on the upcoming Pentax K-01 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera: The camera is designed by a famous designer The new 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens is less than 1 centimeter thick and my understanding is that it will work only with the new K-01 body The Pentax K-01 and the 40mm lens are […]

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Fuji X-Pro1 body listed in Japan for ¥135,000

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

The Fuji X-Pro1 is currently available for pre-order on Amazon Japan for ¥135,000, which is around $1,746. The Fuji X10 for example, is listed in Japan for ¥56,800 (around $734) and the US price is $599. By following this ratio, the US price of the X-Pro1 may actually be lower than $1699.95.

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Samyang 24mm f/1.4 D AS UMC price announced, Rokinon 8mm f/2.8 fisheye lens for Sony NEX introduced

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

Samyang announced the European price of their 24mm f/1.4 D AS UMC lens: Samyang 24mm 1:1.4 ED AS UMC will be available in sale in the first week of February this year. The estimated retail price in Europe will be: 599 EUR gross- Samyang 24mm 1:1.4 ED AS UMC (Canon, Four-thirds, Pentax, Samsung NX, Sony) 625 EUR gross – Samyang […]

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Fuji X-Pro1 will start shipping on February 18th in Japan, price still not confirmed

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

Fujifilm Japan officially announced the release date of the X-Pro1 mirrorless camera for the Japanese market: February 18th, 2012. New sample images taken with all three lenses have been uploaded to the X-Pro1 microsite. Several online stores around the world have listed various prices for the new X-Pro1 products, but Fuji has not yet made an official statement. I already mentioned that […]

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Astrodesign, Kenko Tokina and Tamron join the Micro Four Thirds System standard

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

After Komamura joined the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group last year, today Olympus announced that Astrodesign, Kenko Tokina and Tamron have also joint the group:

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Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX Ⅱ lens announced

By PR admin | Published: January 26, 2012

Tokina just announced a sxecond version of their popular 11-16mm f/2.8 lens. The new lens will have a better performance (ASPH element), new coating and AF motor. No wonder the old Tokina 11mm-16mm f/2.8 lens is currently $40 off (mail-in rebate). Specs:

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The new Pentax Optio VS20 compact camera has two shutter release buttons

By PR admin | Published: January 25, 2012

  The new Optio VS20 point and shoot camera from Pentax has a second vertical shutter-release button with zoom lever for portrait oriented shooting. The rest of the specs: 3in. LCD display, triple shake reduction, sensor-shift-type shake reduction (SR) mechanism, 20x optical zoom, 16MP sensor, HD video.

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Will Lytro’s light field technology move to cell phone cameras?

By PR admin | Published: January 25, 2012

Lytro’s executives chairman Charles Chi discussed with PCWorld the possibility of licensing heir light field camera tech to phone manufacturers: “PCW: Do you see your company licensing the imaging technology out to other camera and camera-phone manufacturers? Chi: We feel that there’s a lot of technology that we can apply to some very differentiated, very interesting, […]

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 first look videos

By PR admin | Published: January 24, 2012

The preview I posted here last week got removed, but YouTube has several other Adobe Photoshop CS6 first look videos. The above clip demonstrates the new blur and perspective crop tool features. Here are few more CS6 demo videos:

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