Category Archives: Panasonic

Two announcement from Panasonic before Photokina

DSLRmagazine (in English) mentioned that there will be two waves of announcements from Panasonic in the next few months – one in mid-July and another one right before Photokina. A LX 3 replacement is on the list of expected cameras.

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Panasonic to have new product announcements in July

Panasonic is expected to have an announcement in mid-July. One possibility for Panasonic could be a new GH2 camera with more advanced video features and maybe even global shutter which if true would eliminate the “jello effect”.

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Another Panasonic announcement expected at the end of July

There are already rumors floating around that Panasonic will have a major product announcement at the end of July, most probably at/around July 28th (this should not be a surprise given Panasonic’s history of announcements at the end of July). One of the possibilities is a Lumix LX3 replacement. Just 10 days ago Panasonic announced a […]

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Panasonic update – Lumix LX4 maybe in July

Update: a reader just reminded me about this post I wrote last year – almost every year Panasonic releases new products around July 20th. Quesabesde visited Panasonic factories in Japan and there are two interesting bits of information in terms of upcoming products: For some reason Quesabesde is “convinced” that there will be a successor of the Panasonic […]

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Interview with Panasonic

This interview is 2 weeks old and it was conducted by unwire.hk with Panasonic’s Development Planning Staff Officer – Mr. Inoue. Here are some quotes (computer translated): Q: What will be the launch of the lens? A: lens, we will soon be introduced fish-eye, more powerful variety of long focal length lens and fixed focus […]

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New Panasonic FX75 & Lumix 8mm f/3.5 G lens

Update: the new 8mm fisheye lens is available for pre-order on Amazon. As previously reported, today Panasonic announced a new Lumix 8mm f/3.5 fisheye G lens and a new point and shoot camera Lumix FX75 (I got a tip in advance and this post was online for a short period of time last week, but then I […]

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Panasonic to announce something next week

Panasonic will have an announcement on June 1st or June 2nd, 2010 (depending on your location). I am still not sure what will be announced, I will look into previous rumors for clues and will post an update.

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Interesting Patents from Sony and Panasonic

Patent Application 20100091128 from Sony is for an imager with optical instead of electrical signal out. From the summary: “A solid-state imager includes a pixel unit for converting incident light into an electrical signal, a substrate bearing the pixel unit formed thereon, an analog-to-digital converter, formed on the substrate, for converting a signal read from the pixel unit into a digital signal, an optical communication unit, arranged on […]

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New product videos from NAB 2010

The first one is about the new Zeiss cinema zoom lens for DSLR cameras – the rep said that this lens is “giving future indication of where Zeiss is heading to”: Zeiss cinema zoom – planet5D tries it on 5D2 from planetMitch on Vimeo. The second video is an introduction to the Panasonic AG-AF100 4/3 camcorder: Panasonic AG-AF100 […]

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Panasonic introduces AG-AF100, 4/3” PRO HI-DEF camcorder

Another rumor materialized today: Panasonic announced video camera with a 4/3 sensor: Full press release after the break:

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