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Sony shows A700 successor at CES 2011

At CES 2011 Sony showed a prototypes of the A700 successor, an unidentified lens and a new flash: No specs or release dates were provided. Photographybay has more photos of the camera.

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Polaroid went Gaga

Polaroid announced three new products at CES 2011: a portable Bluetooth printer, a new instant digital camera and… camera glasses. Yes, those are sun glasses with built-in camera and… LCD screens embedded in the front. The whole Grey line is inspired by Lade Gaga and “is truly expressive of Lady Gaga’s artistic vision”. If you can go through the whole video […]

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JVC GC-PX1 camera concept

PhotographyBay has some detailed CES 2011 coverage on a new camera GC-PX1 concept from JVC: 10.6MP Back-illuminated CMOS Sensor 10x Optical Zoom Lens with OIS 1920 x 1080 Full HD Video at 60p / 36Mbps Motor Drive Shooting 30 fps at 10MP High Speed Video Capture at 300fps (in VGA Resolution with Real-time Processing) 32GB Built-in […]

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Fuji X100 estimated price: €1000/$1200

In an interview with Adrian Clarke of Fujifilm, dpreview learned that the anticipated Fuji X100 camera will have an “estimated” price of €1000/$1200 and is on schedule for March 2011 release.

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Polaroid “GREY” press event is today

Polaroid is expected to reveal the next generation of instant cameras today at 3:30pm PST as part of the series of announcements during CES 2011. The word on the street is that Chase Jarvis will be involved in the event. Lady Gaga also seems to have some involvement in this project.

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Today is CES press day (part 2)

The Pentax firmware I reported yesterday is now official. Samsung dropped 4 more camcorders and a new, dual screen point and shoot camera. Casio announced the previously leaked TRYX and a point and shoot camera with back-illuminated CMOS sensor. Panasonic announced camcorders and several entry level compact cameras. Sony also did their camera announcements including the 3D Bloggie camera […]

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Watch the CES Sony press event live now

You can watch Sony CES press conference live starting at 5pm PST today: update: the online live event is now over

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Today is CES press day (Fuji, Canon, Sony)

Today is press day at CES 2011. Many new products will be announced in the next few hours. On the camera site so far there are no big surprises from what was already reported: Fuji announced eleven new point and shoot models. You can read more about the different Fuji cameras and their new EXR-CMOS BSI sensor […]

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Pentax released new firmware for K-5, K-r and 645D

Pentax just released new firmware updates not only for the K-5, but also for the K-r (ver. 1.01) and 645D (ver. 1.01) cameras. The firmware can be downloaded from network.pentax.eu. Update: the firmware updates are now official.

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Fuji X100 design story

Fuji released another X100 chapter and this time they are describing the design of the camera. Included are also pictures of the leather case. In the ongoing poll for favorite camera of 2010, the Fuji x100 is currently taking the #2 spot (out of aprox. 1800 voters so far). More product pictures after the break:

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