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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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Some more Pentax rumors (full frame DSLR, mirrorless camera)

By PR admin | Published: January 24, 2012

The Pentax full frame DSLR and mAPS-C mirrorless camera rumors are back. I received several new tips on those products. After it got acquired by Ricoh, Pentax is reportedly determined to provide a full range of cameras, including a new full frame DSLR and the upcoming K-01 APS-C mirrorless camera. A Ricoh representative  recently said that they “will plug a […]

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Now, this is a lens!

By PR admin | Published: January 23, 2012

From the NikonRumors comment section – this is the Perkin Elmer 36″ f/4.0 aerial camera lens. It’s diameter is over 12″ and it was once attached to the famous SR-71 Blackbird spy plane which supposedly took part in various CIA missions: “These lenses were also used in the Samos satellite program and a modified version […]

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A better picture of the Olympus OM-D camera

By PR admin | Published: January 23, 2012

The guys at e-p1.net combined the two leaked OM-D pictures into one image – you can get a better idea of how the new camera will look like.

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Samsung NX20 announcement next month?

By PR admin | Published: January 23, 2012

  I received a tip that the release date for the Samsung NX20 mirrorless camera will be in the second half of February, 2012. The camera will start shipping in April (for Asia) and May (for Europe/US). Samsung will also announce new NX lenses, flash unit and filters.

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Canon 5D Mark III, 200-400mm, 600mm prototypes spotted in Kenya?

By PR admin | Published: January 23, 2012

Take a look at those pictures published on Apertureacademy’s blog today – they were recently taken in Kenya and show a new Canon DSLR camera body (5D Mark III?) plus two new lens prototypes: 200-400mm and 600mm. For comparison, here is the EOS 5D Mark II and the EOS 7D bodies from the same angle:

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