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Update: What to expect for CES 2011 (and what’s announced already)

CES 2011 show is starting in two days in Las Vegas. Here is a list of what was announced already (scroll down for the list of upcoming announcements): The three new cameras from Kodak that leaked on Amazon are already announced: Lexar released a 128GB SDXC memory card: Samsung announced a new Wi-Fi enabled SH100, NX11 and WB700 cameras: […]

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Kodak to announce three new cameras for CES 2011

Amazon has 3 empty listings for new Kodak products, presumably for CES 2011 – an EasyShare camera, a video cam and a high powered zoom model:

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Correction

A week ago I wrote a post about Kodak not attending PMA 2011. The initial source of this information was the PEN newsletter from December 6th, 2010: After some clarifications from PMA, it seems that the presented information was wrong and was referring to the PMA Australia event and not the US PMA 2011 that […]

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Is Kodak for sale?

More Kodak news: Bloomberg reports that Kodak’s shares rose 11% based on buyout speculation. The president of an asset management company said that acquisition “is something that’s been talked about incessantly, at least several months ago there was talk that the best exit strategy would be just to sell the company”. Potential buyers were not mentioned in […]

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Kodak will not take part in PMA 2011 *updated*

Kodak has decided not to participate in the PMA 2011 show in Las Vegas (September 8-10th, 2011). So far Sony, Panasonic and Fujifilm have confirmed their commitment to the show. In this year’s PMA 2010, it was Leica that decided not to participate. Canon also initially announced that they will not be part of PMA 2010, but then […]

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New 29MP full frame CCD sensor from Kodak

Kodak announced a new 29MP full frame (35mm) CCD sensor. The KAI-29050 sensor is “the highest resolution CCD image sensor based on Interline Transfer technology”. Highlights of the new sensor: features a true electronic (or global) shutter has a “plug-and-play” design for easy implementation 5.5-micron pixel supports up to 4 images per second 2x to 4x increase […]

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Which sensor will Pentax 645D use?

At that point it is not clear which sensor will be deployed in the upcoming Pentax 645D medium format camera. My first guess few months ago was for the KAF-39000 from Kodak. The only problem is that neither of those sensors will give us the reported “1.7 times bigger than a regular full frame sensor” ratio (official information […]

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Why the iPad doesn’t have a built-in camera?

Am interesting rumor from the ImagingInsider: “…it originally was supposed to have one… at least that’s what we were told. But, when Kodak filed a complaint against Apple earlier this year for patent infringement the iPad design changed…” Here is a shot from the iPad enclosure and you can clearly see that there is space […]

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