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New ThinkTank Photo Retrospective 5 bag for Micro Four Thirds or rangefinder camera systems

By PR admin | Published: April 12, 2011

Today ThinkTank Photo announced a new Retrospective 5 bag. This is the first bag from ThinkTank especially designed for Micro Four Thirds or rangefinder camera systems. I got an early pre-production version few days ago and here are some images:

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PhotoRumors Giveaway #5: Digital Holga ultimate kit for Nikon or Canon

By PR admin | Published: April 11, 2011

What can I win? In this giveaway you can win a Digital Holga Ultimate Kit for Nikon or Canon DSLR from HolgaDirect. How do I win? The rules are simple: “Like” the HolgaDirect Facebook page “Like” the PhotoRumors Facebook page Leave a comment to this blog post OR Follow HolgaDirect on Twitter Follow PhotoRumors on […]

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Digital film design concept

By PR admin | Published: April 9, 2011

After the RE-35 April Fool’s prank, a group of students from Hongik University designed another “digital film” concept: While we are on the digital film topic, you can read few interesting comments from someone who used to work for Silicon Film back in 2001 in this thread (search for Jon). I am expecting/hoping Jon will share some more […]

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Sigma patents 500mm f/4 lens

By PR admin | Published: April 8, 2011

Sigma filed a patent in Japan for a new 500mm f/4 lens. Sigma currently has a 500mm f/4.5 EX DG APO HSM model that was announced back in 2005:

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Samsung NX20 and NX200 to be released this summer

By PR admin | Published: April 8, 2011

Samsung Russia confirmed that two new NX mirrorless cameras will be released this year: NX20 and NX 200, which will have higher MP count then their predecessors (NX10 and NX100 have 14.6MP). Samsung is not planning any weatherproof models. Few weeks ago, a Korean website already broke the news of the upcoming NX20 and NX200 cameras. […]

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Rumors of Fuji X200 and X300 are already floating around

By PR admin | Published: April 6, 2011

Taken from this dpreview thread: “Have had my X100 for a week now … puts any of the 4/3 compacts out their to shame. Pretty sure they have a winner here…and Fuji has confirmed an X300 next year that will have interchangeable lenses.” “I’m in the pro photo supply biz…this is from Fuji. They have […]

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New Apple Final Cut Pro to be announced on April 12?

By PR admin | Published: April 6, 2011

According to PhotographyBay, Apple will announce a new version of their Final Cut Pro software on April 12th during the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet in Las Vegas. In a typical Apple fashion, the new version is expected to be a “jaw-dropper”.

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In case you didn’t know, the RE35 digital film cartridge was a prank

By PR admin | Published: April 6, 2011

Several readers asked me if the RE35 digital film cartridge was real. RE35 website promised film sized cartridges with a new “Flexisensor” that can store images digitally and then upload them via USB to a computer. Here is the answer: Good prank indeed! Check Wikipedia for more info on a related scam from 2001.

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Olympus XZ-1 review

By PR admin | Published: April 4, 2011

After the great Fuji X100 review (the third most viewed post in March), Dan shared his experineces with the Olympus XZ-1 camera. You can follow Dan in Twitter @ZDP189. Here is his review: Olympus XZ-1 – stuck with it Executive Summary If money is no object, just about any normal consumer would buy an XZ-1 over the competition. It’s […]

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Rumor: iPhone 5 to use 8MP sensor from Sony

By PR admin | Published: April 4, 2011

Sony’s CEO, Sir Howard Stringer mentioned in an interview with Walt Mossberg that Sony will be providing sensors to Apple for the next version of the iPhone: “Stringer just said that their camera image sensor facility in Sendai was affected by the recent tsunami/quake.  In the next breath, he said something to the effect of getting […]

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