Category Archives: Samsung

New Samsung advanced full frame mirrorless system?

This banner showed up online over the weekend. My take? This rumor is busted! The banner looks horrible and I don’t think is real:

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Samsung NX-10 specs and release date

The latest rumor is that Samsung NX will be announced on December 10th, 2009 (the previous rumors pointed to an early 2010 release). Those are the expected Samsung NX specs: Mount: Samsung NX Sensor: 23.4 x 15.6mm APS-C CMOS 14.6 mega pixels (1.5x) Body: polycarbonate sealed against dust and moisture Image stabilization: Optical Image Stabilization […]

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Pentax will have a “deeper relationship with some electronics guys”

Hoya Corporation continues to make public statements about possible “deeper relationship” with another company, possibly Samsung. Those are the words of the COO Hiroshi Yamada (see previous statements of Hoya’s CEO here): “I don’t know whether we’ll go with Samsung or somebody else, but I can say that we’ll have a deeper relationship with some electronics guys. […]

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New exciting technologies coming soon to a camera near you

The first video is of a flexible OLED prototype, by Samsung: It’s a 2.8″ display (166ppi), and it’s just 20 micrometer thick (source): The other news from this week was Epson’s announcement of a mass production, high-end EVF panels. Some details: Features of the new panel Compact – small 0.47-inch diagonal screen enables compact, thin […]

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Samsung’s new backside illumination CMOS sensor

Google translation: “Korean Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Is, CMOS back radiation can increase the sensitivity of the sensor (BSI: backside illumination) to commercialize a technology to mass-produce the product was 2010. Now, CMOS sensor all three major companies back to 2010 was irradiated with CMOS sensor technology (BSI CMOS type sensor) will begin mass production. […]

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Samsung SCH-W880: 12 mp camera and a phone

Expected specs (via Engadget): 3G cellphone 12 mp camera 3x optical zoom dedicated controls like a mode dial, shutter and zoom 3.3-inch WVGA AMOLED display HD video, HSDPA data, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, microSD slot, and DMB mobile television Expected delivery for Korea only As the title of the latest book from Chase Jarvis goes: The […]

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OLED/AMOLED screens coming to a camera near you

The rumored Samsung NX3 camera will not be be the first camera with an AMOLED display (there is no substantial difference between OLED & AMOLED – Active Matrix is just a way of controlling individual pixels). OLED screens are already available on several models (as production costs are dropping): Nikon just released a p&s camera with a touchscreen […]

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Samsung NX will have lens based optical stabilisation

Via Amateurphotographer

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