What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: June 17, 2015

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→ The Sony Alpha NEX-7 with 18-55mm lens is now $750 off.

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Zeiss Planar 50mm f:0.7 lens
→ The Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens was originally designed for NASA:

One of the largest aperture lenses in the history of photography: the ZEISS Planar 0.7/50. It was originally designed for NASA. In order to take pictures of the “dark” side of the moon, they needed an extremely light sensitive and fast lens. Back in 1966, we created only ten such lenses, six of which went to NASA, one we kept for ourselves. And the other three, you wonder? Exceptional director Stanley Kubrick used them in the 1970s to shoot the famous scene in Barry Lyndon that was only lit by candlelight.

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→ New backpacks from ThinkTankPhoto: Trifecta 10 DSLR and Trifecta 8 Mirrorless.

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Adobe Camera Raw 9.1, Creative Cloud/Lightroom updates, Adobe Stock introduced

By PR admin | Published: June 16, 2015

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Adobe announced several updates today:

Adobe also launched Adobe Stock where you can buy/sell stock photo:

Pricing for Creative Cloud individual and team customers is $9.99 for a single image; $29.99 per month for 10 images monthly (with rollover of unused images); and $199 per month for 750 images monthly. Separate pricing is available for Adobe Stock customers who are not Creative Cloud members.

Key features of Adobe Stock include:

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The upcoming DxO ONE camera has 1″ sensor and attaches to your smartphone

By PR admin | Published: June 16, 2015

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The DxO teasers I posted yesterday are for a new DxO ONE camera that will attach to your smartphone. The official announcement will be on the 18th. Here is some additional information, including technical specs thanks to Google cache (thanks for the tip Spike!):

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 16GB camera-smartphone is coming to the US

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2015

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 16GB camera-smartphone (or as they call it connected camera) is coming to the US in black and silver finish (unlocked version) and is now available for pre-order at B&H and Adorama. Here are the technical specs:

  • 1″ 20.1MP sensor
  • 28mm f/2.8 Leica DC Elmarit lens
  • 15 frames per second 4K video
  • Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC and cellular connectivity
  • Android platform camera
  • 4.7″ HD touch-screen interface (1920 x 1080 TFT LCD display)
  • GSM / 4G LTE Capable
  • RAW Image Capture & 4K Video Recording
  • Control ring for full manual operation
  • 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 801 chipset
  • 16GB storage capacity + 2GB of RAM
  • Android KitKat 4.4

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Additional Panasonic CM1 information:

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“On Thursday, DxO will launch our new shape of photography”

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2015

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Update: the teasers are for a new smartphone camera module called DxO ONE. More info is available here.

A new website called newshapeofphotography.com teases about something new coming from DxO on June 18th:

A leap of faith

Your proud father’s gaze on graduation day
Rushing glacial streams cutting through jagged rocks
Forgotten seashells burrowing through black sand

It’s the power of all these memories, and more, in your pocket.

On Thursday, DxO will launch our new shape of photography. Visit dxo.com on June 18th and join us in revolutionizing how memories are made.

Does anyone know what is this all about? The front page contains multiple teasers:

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Hasselblad HV camera with 24-70mm lens is now $8,000 off

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2015

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After the Stellar and Lunar massive price drops, it is now time to “fire sale” the Hasselblad HV camera – the 24-70mm kit version is currently $8,000 off!

The just announced Lusso is next to get a huge price drop.

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Zeiss released additional information on their new Batis autofocus lenses for Sony full frame mirrorless cameras

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2015

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Zeiss released additional information on their new Batis autofocus lenses for Sony full frame mirrorless cameras including sample photos, lens design graphs, MTF charts and brochures:

New Zeiss Batis videos:

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New Samsung NX1 and Pentax DSLR cameras price drop

By PR admin | Published: June 15, 2015

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Samsung NX1 camera is now $200 off at Adorama and B&H ($300 off for the 16-50mm f/2-2.8 S ED OIS lens kit).

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Big savings on Pentax cameras at Adorama (K-50 for $277.19, K-3 for $674.10, K-3 II for $987.26, K-S1 for $350.10, K-S2 for $627.26)

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Canon EOS 5DS DSLR camera now in stock

By PR admin | Published: June 14, 2015

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The 50MP Canon EOS 5DS DSLR camera is already shipping worldwide and is currently in stock at Adorama, Amazon and B&H. Additional information on the Canon EOS 5DS/R cameras can be found here. The unboxing video and few sample photos are available on flickr.

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Hasselblad Lusso is just another Sony rebadge

By PR admin | Published: June 13, 2015

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Hasselblad Lusso mirrorless camera
After the Stellar, Lunar, HV (Solar?) it seems that Hasselblad is still in the business of rebadging Sony products and selling them for ridiculous prices. The new Lusso is the company’s latest creation. You can find the camera’s manual here.

I thought that with the last CEO change, Hasselblad will stop producing the “worst camera of the year“. The Lusso trademark was registered back in 2013/2014, so this could have been an old projects.

Based on the specifications, the Lusso appears to be based on the 36MP Sony a7r (not sure what happened to the previous Solar model). Here are few additional images from the new camera:

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