Category Archives: Sony

Ongoing holidays rebates on photo equipment

By PR admin | Published: December 12, 2010

I received an email from B&H with their latest rebate programs: Camcorders Nikon updated rebates Olympus rebates Sony rebates and NEX rebates Pentax rebates Canon has DSLR and lens combo rebates, double instant rebates and Pixma printers rebates

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Sony’s 4K video roadmap

By PR admin | Published: December 2, 2010

This is Hugo Gaggion’s (Sony Broadcast & Professional Solutions CTO) presentation “4K/2K End-to-End – The Sony 4K Roadmap” from the 2010 HD World show in New York. The presentation is rather technical, but if you are interesting in videography and the latest pro video cameras from Sony, you will find it interesting: Via Image-sensors-world

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Sony announces A900/A850 firmware upgrade

By PR admin | Published: December 2, 2010

The previously rumored firmware upgrade for Sony A900/A850 DSLR cameras is now available online. Full press release after the break:

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Quick links

By PR admin | Published: December 1, 2010

Samsung shows a flexible 3D OLED panel: Sony develops “Hybrid FPA”, a novel liquid crystal alignment technique that achieves faster response time for liquid crystal displays: RED Scarlet S35 is now called EPIC Light. Of course features and price are changed as well. Canon 5D Mark II and 7D get locking mode dial upgrade option:

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Sony to release a new firmware update for A900/A850

By PR admin | Published: November 27, 2010

DCHome posted details about the upcoming firmware update for the  Sony A900/A850 cameras: A [Release w/oLens] item has been added: you can release the shutter even when no lens is mounted on the camera. The range of the exposure compensation has been expanded: the range of the exposure compensation is expanded to ±5 EV (Before […]

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Just few interesting links

By PR admin | Published: November 20, 2010

External LED iFlash for your iPhone: The Contax brand name will be released from Kyocera this year. Will the Contax camera come back to life? New Panasonic firmware update for DMC-G2 makes the camera compatible with the 3D interchangeable lens (H-FT012). Sony released a firmware that will add AF support to A-mount lenses when used […]

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Video shot with the new Sony PMW-F3 Super 35mm digital motion picture camcorder

By PR admin | Published: November 17, 2010

This video is taken with the Sony PMW-F3 Super 35mm digital motion picture camcorder that was announced few days ago. Currently, there are only three pre-production versions of this cameras in the world: compulsion – teaser from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo.

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Sony announces the development of NXCAM HD camcorder with E mount

By PR admin | Published: November 16, 2010

Sony just annoucned the development of a new NXCAM HD camcorder with E mount (use of NEX lenses). Regular α lenses can also be used with an adapter. The camera will have 1080p (60p / 30p / 24p or 50p / 25p) recording modes and will be available in the middle of 2011. The recording format will […]

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Sensor presentations on the 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

By PR admin | Published: November 15, 2010

Some of the interesting sensor presentations from the 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference are from Sony and Samsung: “23.9 A 1/2.33-inch 14.6M 1.4μm-Pixel Backside-Illuminated CMOS Image Sensor with Floating Diffusion Boosting by Samsung 23.11 A 17.7Mpixel 120fps CMOS Image Sensor with 34.8Gb/s Readout by Sony” The full program can be downloaded here. Via Image-sensors-world

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More new sensors announced for Vision 2010

By PR admin | Published: November 8, 2010

There has been a stream of new sensor announcements in the past few days (see here and here). This is because of the Vision 2010 show that starts tomorrow in Stuttgart, Germany. Today we learned more about the Sony “Super 35mm” sensor that is inside the new Sony digital motion picture camcorder. The next diagram show that the […]

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