Category Archives: Samsung

Samsung makes five NX lenses official

By PR admin | Published: February 21, 2011

After the leak from last week, today Samsung officially announced the five new NX lenses: Samsung 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 ED OIS Samsung 16mm f/2.4 Samsung 60mm f/2.8 Macro ED OIS SSA Samsung 85mm f/1.4 ED SSA Samsung 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 OIS Press release:

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Samsung NX 2011 roadmap (GPS, new lenses)

By PR admin | Published: February 18, 2011

A Korean blogger attended a presentation from Samsung that revealed the NX roadmap for 2011: the NX line will be divided into three categories: NX Style (NX100), NX Classic (NX10, NX11) and NX Classic + models are to be determined (slice #3) 180° panorama mode there is a 700mm prototype NX lens (slide #4) a new GPS module for NX […]

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Samsung NX lens lineup

By PR admin | Published: February 12, 2011

Several unreleased Samsung NX lenses appeared on a Korean forum (original source: clubnx.co.kr): Picture above: 50-200mm, 18-200mm , 85mm f/1.4, 60mm Macro, 16mm Pancake, 20mm Pancake Silver, 20-50mm Silver (from the left, all i-Function lenses)

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Financial results from the major photography companies are out

By PR admin | Published: February 4, 2011

Hoya (Pentax): “Net sales were up 1.5% to 108,449 million yen year-on-year, and operating income rose 4.7% to19,897 million yen. Net income was up 12.0% to 13,210 million yen, and earnings per share were 30.62 yen compared with27.24 yen in the same period last year. The profit of the camera business also exceeded our expectations this quarter due to the channel […]

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Serious compact cameras compared: Samsung TL500 vs. Panasonic LX5 vs. Canon S95

By PR admin | Published: February 1, 2011

I initially started with evaluating five different compact models: Samsung TL500, Panasonic LX5, Leica D-Lux 5, Nikon Coolpix S8100 and Canon S95. The Panasonic LX5 and Leica D-Lux 5 are almost identical cameras – take a look at this post over at leicarumors.com. The Nikon S8100 doesn’t really fit in this category because it does not support RAW […]

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Today is CES press day (part 2)

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2011

The Pentax firmware I reported yesterday is now official. Samsung dropped 4 more camcorders and a new, dual screen point and shoot camera. Casio announced the previously leaked TRYX and a point and shoot camera with back-illuminated CMOS sensor. Panasonic announced camcorders and several entry level compact cameras. Sony also did their camera announcements including the 3D Bloggie camera […]

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

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

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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Samsung also has a full HD camcorder for CES 2011 (HMX-Q10)

By PR admin | Published: January 3, 2011

In addition to the NX11, WB700  cameras, 85mm f/1.4, 60mm f/2.8 Macro  and 16mm f/2.4 NX lenses, Samsung will also announce a new full HD camcorder HMX-Q10 (not with NX mount as previously rumored): Full press release after the break:

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What to expect for CES 2011

By PR admin | Published: January 2, 2011

CES 2011 show is starting next week in Las Vegas. This is what is known so far in terms of announcements from the major camera manufacturers: Olympus E-PL2: Olympus XZ-1 compact camera with a fast f/1.8 Zuiko zoom lens: New Olympus accessories for the E-PL2 and ZX-1 cameras: Samsung NX11 and WB700 cameras: Samsung lenses: 85mm f/1.4, 60mm […]

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Samsung 60mm f/2.8 Macro ED OIS SSA and 16mm f/2.4 NX lenses

By PR admin | Published: December 31, 2010

After the Samsung 85mm f/1.4 NX lens that showed up online few days ago, two more lenses made an appearance on dpreview – the Samsung NX 60mm f/2.8 Macro ED OIS SSA:

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