Amazon UK lists the Fuji X100 with a release date of April 11, 2011: The information I received is that the initial shipment for each country will be very limited. A second, large shipment will follow at the end of March/early April. The Fuji X100 is already shipping in Japan to customers who pre-ordered it in advance. The […]
According to DDaily Korea, Samsung is working on two new mirrorless cameras: NX20 and NX200. Those will be the successors of the current NX 10 and NX100 models and are expected to be released in the first half of 2011 or latest by fall. Both cameras are reportedly in the last stage of the development process.
In the last moment before start shipping, Samyang made some design changes to the 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC lens: they changed the design with a new metallic red ring, added a focusing scale and reduced the size of the lens (I believe they re-designed the lens hood). This is a full frame lens available in Canon, Four Thirds, […]
WSJ reports that one of Kodak’s investors is pushing for a turn-around or sale of the 119 years old company. The current situation of Kodak was described as “deteriorating financial condition and substantial diminution of shareholder value”. In the past few months Kodak made the headlines with rumors hat the company is for sale and […]
PentaxForum reports that Pentax is currently working on a firmware update 1.03 for the Pentax K-5 DSLR camera that will fix the front-focusing issues recently reported on several websites.
Here are the latest Fuji X100 updates from a recent Q&A session: The APC CMOS EXR sensor in the X100 is produced by Fuji It took Fuji two years to develop the X100 X100 focusing speed is 0.16 seconds Fuji is currently examining the option of developing an interchangeable lens camera Fuji expects to sell 100,000 X100 cameras in […]
Today Olympus announced three new compact cameras: SZ-30MR, SZ-20 and TG-810. The SZ-20 was the camera previously leaked on the European Trade Marks and Design office. The new Olympus SZ-30MR is the first ever camera to capture Full HD movies (1080p) and 16MP stills simultaneously. Specs at a glance: 24x wide optical zoom (25-600mm) backlit CMOS sensor 3D photo shooting […]
Today Pentax announced in Japan the Rilakkuma limited edition K-r camera. Only 1000 pieces will be released on July 8th, 2011 for the price of 94,500 Yen (around 1150 USD). Rilakkuma is a popular bear character in Japan. More images:
The latest rumor indicates of a potential Olympus announcement tomorrow. One possibility is this new compact camera that was filed with European Trade Marks and Designs office few weeks ago:
According FDtimes Sony will show a new 4k motion picture camera prototype at NAB (April 9-14). “It doesn’t have a name yet, but instead of calling it the Next CineAlta Camera, let’s give it the working title of Cine Altissima. She is not a mere 4K motion picture camera. Behind the PL mount, there’s an 8K sensor: […]
