Category Archives: Panasonic

Interview with Panasonic

By PR admin | Published: June 2, 2010

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

By PR admin | Published: June 1, 2010

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

By PR admin | Published: May 27, 2010

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

By PR admin | Published: April 26, 2010

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

By PR admin | Published: April 23, 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

By PR admin | Published: April 11, 2010

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

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Panasonic Image Sensor Roadmap: 20MP in 2012

By PR admin | Published: April 6, 2010

The graph says it all: Industrial Sensors Roadmap after the break:

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The latest Panasonic patents

By PR admin | Published: March 16, 2010

Panasonic patent for what appears to be a GH2 model with a metal body: “The main claim of this patent is the ‘heat radiators and heat conductors’ inside a ‘metal body’ which remove heat from around the image processing unit and the CMOS sensor itself. The CMOS image sensor 110 is able to acquire high-resolution […]

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Panasonic G2/Panasonic G10 official

By PR admin | Published: March 7, 2010

Today Panasonic announced the G2 and G10 additions to their Lumix line. A new Lumix G Vario 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega O.I.S. image stabilized lens was also introduced. Amazon has already listed the new models on their website but prices are not yet official (Panasonic announces prices 30 days before the product will start shipping).

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Few more pictures of Panasonic G2 and G10

By PR admin | Published: March 5, 2010

The Panasonic G2 will be available in multiple colors (click on image for larger view): Here is also the first Panasonic G10 picture: And a site view of the new lens after the break:

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