New Pentax products on display at CES

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2015

New Pentax products on display at CES
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Here are the details on the new Pentax/Ricoh products:

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Venus Optics announced new 60mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro lens: the world’s first 2:1 magnification lens with infinity focus

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2015

Venus Optics 60mm f:2.8 Ultra-Macro lens with infinity focus
It seems that this is an old announcement, but I just spotted it online: Venus Optics announced a new 60mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro lens, the world’s first 2:1 magnification lens with infinity focus. The lens will be available in Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony Alpha and Pentax K mounts and can be purchased on eBay.

Update: a review of the Venus 60mm f/2.8 lens can be found here.

Additional information after the break.

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List of upcoming Olympus cameras

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2015

List of upcoming Olympus cameras
In addition to the Olympus E-M5II camera, the Indonesian communication agency has listings on their website for two new Olympus compact cameras: Olympus SH-2 and TG-860. The official announcement will most likely be at the CP+ show in Japan next month.

Via Digicame-info

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Samsung NX500 mirrorless camera specs leaked: ISO 32,000, 4k video, 1/4000s

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2015

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It seems that a firmware update for the new Samsung NX500 mirrorless camera leaked online. Here are some of the rumored specifications:

  • ISO range: 100 – 32,000 (ISO 25,600 Auto ISO limit)
  • Top shutter speed: 1/4000s
  • Video: 4095×2160 (24p), 3840×2160 (25p / 30p), 1920×1080 (509 / 60p), 1920×1080 (259 / 30p)

Via SLRclub & Dicahub

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Canon @ 2015 CES: new printers, camcorders, PowerShot cameras and a media hub

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2015

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Today at the CES show Canon announced new printers, camcorders, five PowerShot compact cameras and a Connect Station CS100 media hub used for photo and video storage. For pricing and availability, check this link. The full press releases can be found here. The Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera is now also available in a kit with the EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens.

Here is a video demo on the Canon Connect Station CS100:

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What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2015

Fujifilm Globe-Trotter exclusive luxury mirrorless camera kit
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→ Fujifilm and Globe-Trotter have announced another “exclusive” and “luxury” kit based on the Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver camera. You can see the previous Globe-Trotter/Fuji edition kits here and here.

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→ The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7 camera body is listed as discontinued at B&H.


→ Kodak already has a website for the Instamatic Android based devices I reported last month. The official announcement will be next week during the 2015 CES show. Here are the details:

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Yongnuo is coming with a 35mm f/2 clone lens for Canon DSLR cameras

By PR admin | Published: January 3, 2015

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The Chinese based Yongnuo already has 50mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/1.4 lenses for Canon DSLR cameras. The company will soon release also a new 35mm f/2 lens. Here are the technical specifications, lens design and MTF charts:

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New Zeiss Loxia wide and tele prime lenses coming in 2015

By PR admin | Published: January 3, 2015

In a recent interview, Richard Schleuning from Carl Zeiss casually mentioned that new wide and tele prime lenses will be on market by the end of 2015. The new Loxia product line contains manual focus lenses designed for full frame mirrorless cameras like the Sony a7.

Via Hdslrshooter

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The best of 2014

By PR admin | Published: December 31, 2014

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These are the top 10 most popular posts for 2014:

  1. The new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens should be crazy good
  2. Canon 7D Mark II: leaked picture and specs
  3. Photokina 2014 rumors roundup
  4. Pictures of future Fujinon XF 50-140mm f/2.8, 16-55mm f/2.8 and 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses
  5. Updated Sony FE lens roadmap
  6. Ricoh confirms the Pentax full frame camera is coming in 2015
  7. Adobe Lightroom 6 rumors
  8. Pentax 645D II specifications and price report from CP+
  9. New Pentax 645D medium format camera: pictures and some rumors
  10. Sigma Quattro DP2 compact camera leaked

and the top 10 posts for December, 2014:

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DC.Watch interviews with Ricoh, Fuji, Olympus, Sony and Panasonic

By PR admin | Published: December 30, 2014

After the DC.Watch interviews with Nikon and Canon, here is a quick recap of the remaining Q&A with Ricoh, Fuji, Olympus, Sony and Panasonic:

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Ricoh interview recap:

  • No plans for GR zoom lens
  • Pentax continues with the development of a full frame DSLR camera (no release dates were given)
  • New K mount lenses coming in 2015
  • There were some difficulties developing a macro lens for the Q system
  • No word for the future of the GXR system or any information on a new mirrorless camera

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Fuji interview – not a big surprise here: the company has currently no plans for a full frame or medium format cameras and will concentrate on the development of a high resolution APS-C sensors.

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The interview with Olympus did not reveal any interesting information – it seems that most of the mirrorless camera manufacturers (with the exception of Sony) are running out of ways to improve their sensor technology and are mainly concentrating on new features and cameras with a more appealing design.

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In the interview with Sony executives, the main topics of discussion were high-megapixels cameras, improved AF and future sensor development. Any plans for a Sony medium format camera were denied.

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DC.Watch also interviewed Panasonic – they are also working on a high-megapixel camera and 8k video recording capabilities.

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