Category Archives: Canon

Patents from Pentax and Canon

By PR admin | Published: June 19, 2010

First in line are some Pentax patents of what appears to be three lenses with a Micro-Four-Thirds mount: Pentax-MFTS 17mm F2.8 AL Pentax-MFTS 17mm F2.0 AL Pentax-MFTS 14mm F2.8 AL And the drawings: The next patent is from Canon and is for a “Imaging-device cleaning apparatus” which has the shape of  a lens and attaches […]

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Canon APS-H 1.3x mirrorless

By PR admin | Published: June 9, 2010

This is the email I received about a potential Canon APS-H 1.3x mirrorless camera: “Canon APS-H 1.3x mirrorless I was talking with a friend of mine who often tests EOS cameras, that I can’t wait any longer to buy my first mirrorless system but in the same time that am not satisfied with the IQ […]

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Two interesting patents from Sony and Canon

By PR admin | Published: June 5, 2010

Update: I forgot that Canon also filed a patent for a touchscreen DSLR few months ago. The first patent is about a touchscreen DSLR from Sony: PhotographyBay has the whole story, here is a part of the patent application: The touch panel 332 functions as a touched position detector that detects the touched position where […]

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Canon 1Ds Mk IV listed on retail site

By PR admin | Published: June 1, 2010

This is a picture from the New Zealand’s Progear website which lists the Canon 1Ds Mk IV with a 32MP sensor and an US equivalent price of aprox. $7,600:

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Sony and Canon attempt to purchase Pentax?

By PR admin | Published: May 28, 2010

Canon and Sony may have tried to purchase Pentax at some point. Hoya’s CEO has indicated in the past that Pentax is for sell. Then there were some statements about a “deeper relationship” with Samsung. It is possible that at some point JVC attempted to buy Pentax – both companies denied it a month later. I […]

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Nauticam NA-550D underwater housing for Canon EOS Rebel T2i

By PR admin | Published: May 26, 2010

Nauticam will release an underwater housing for Canon EOS Rebel T2i: More pictures and full press release after the break:

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Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica

By PR admin | Published: May 21, 2010

Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica lenses. The adapters are expected to be available in July, 2010. For more details visit DC.watch. This will make the Sony NEX cameras comparable to the m4/3 system cameras that already have all kinds of adapters available.

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CMOS square sensor

By PR admin | Published: May 14, 2010

The mythical square sensor is back – an unknown camera manufacturer is preparing a square CMOS sensor (they also got a detailed list of the advantages of such sensor design): Square sensors already exist – check mega-vision.com.

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Photo rumors from around the web

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2010

Tomorrow is Sony’s day: the new NEX3 and NEX5 EVIL Alpha cameras will be unveiled. New Samsung HZ50W ( model WB5500 in Europe) point and shoot camera is coming soon. The rumored specs are: Samsung CMOS sensor Sensor size: 1/2.33″ Resolution: 14.5MPx (4400×3300) Pixel: 1.10um Transfer rate: 15fps Maybe the Samsung NX5 will be announced […]

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III in 2011

By PR admin | Published: May 5, 2010

During the last Creativelive workshop, Vincent LaForet mentioned that Canon is developing a third generation of the EOS 5D which will be released in 2011.

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