Category Archives: Sony

Rumor: Sony, Zeiss lenses are going up in price in the US

By PR admin | Published: January 12, 2011

I received some reports that Zeiss and Sony lenses will be going up in price in the US on February 1st, 2011. Not sure if all lenses will be impacted or what exactly the price increase will be (expecting to get a price list later today or tomorrow).

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Sony has two more Cybershot cameras to announce: DSC-HX9V and DSC-HX100v

By PR admin | Published: January 10, 2011

On February 2nd, 2011 Sony will announce two high-end point and shoot Cybershot cameras: DSC-HX9V and DSC-HX100v. Here are the expected specs of the HX9V model: 16MP Exmor R CMOS sensor 16x zoom (24mm on the wide side) 3″ LCD screen 1080i movie mode 3D sweep panaroma 3d still pictures Background defocus 10fps GPS tagging USB charging […]

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CES 2011 recap

By PR admin | Published: January 10, 2011

CES 2011 is now over. Many compact cameras were announced, but the stars of the show IMHO were the Olympus E-PL2 and Olympus XZ-1. Dpreview has a samples gallery of the Olympus XZ-1. A hands-on of the Olympus E-PL2 can be found on AP. Both Olympus E-PL2 and Olympus XZ-1 cameras are now available for pre-order. Here is some additional coverage: DSLR magazine […]

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Sony shows A700 successor at CES 2011

By PR admin | Published: January 7, 2011

At CES 2011 Sony showed a prototypes of the A700 successor, an unidentified lens and a new flash: No specs or release dates were provided. Photographybay has more photos of the camera.

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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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Watch the CES Sony press event live now

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2011

You can watch Sony CES press conference live starting at 5pm PST today: update: the online live event is now over

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Today is CES press day (Fuji, Canon, Sony)

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2011

Today is press day at CES 2011. Many new products will be announced in the next few hours. On the camera site so far there are no big surprises from what was already reported: Fuji announced eleven new point and shoot models. You can read more about the different Fuji cameras and their new EXR-CMOS BSI sensor […]

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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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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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Full list of Sony cameras for CES 2011

By PR admin | Published: December 31, 2010

This is the full list of cameras to be announced by Sony for CES 2011: Cybershot DSC-W510: 12MP, 2.7 in. screen, sweep panorama function Cybershot DSC-W530: upgrades to a 14MP sensor Cybershot DSC-W560: adds SteadyShot and 720p HD video Cybershot DSC-W570: adds 16MP, 5x zoom (25mm on the wide side) Cybershot DSC-WX9: high end model, […]

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