Photo Rumors

Dehaze feature coming to Adobe Lightroom CC

By PR admin | Published: May 28, 2015

Terry White published a sneak peek video on a new "Dehaze" feature that will come to Adobe Lightroom CC in the future: "The Dehaze tool helps you easily reduce or remove haze, common in many outdoor photos like landscapes". Here is the video:

Posted in Adobe | Tagged Lightroom CC | 23 Comments

GoPro to release a quadcopter and a VR camera array

By PR admin | Published: May 28, 2015

Last year I reported a rumor about GoPro working on a consumer drone with HD camera. Here are few updates on this story:

Posted in GoPro | Tagged Drones | 1 Comment

The latest patents from Ricoh, Tamron, Olympus and Canon

By PR admin | Published: May 27, 2015

→ Pentax/Ricoh filed a patent for a new AF system where the AF points will cover a wide area of the frame. This is probably linked to one of the rumors that the new Pentax full frame DSLR camera will have a new "groundbreaking AF function".

→ Tamron filed a patent for a 85mm f/1.8 VC designed for a full fame mirrorless camera. As Egami noted in their post, the patented lens design looks very similar to the new Zeiss Batis Sonnar 85mm f/1.8 lens. Few months ago Tamron and Sony filed a join patent for a 35mm f/2.8 full frame lens.

→ Olympus also filed a patent for a 2-layers RGBCMY sensor.

Posted in Canon, Olympus, Pentax, Ricoh, Tamron | Tagged Patents | 10 Comments

Fuji X-T10 vs. Fuji X-T1 camera specifications comparison

By PR admin | Published: May 26, 2015

Here is a detailed specifications comparison between the new Fuji X-T10 and Fuji X-T1 mirrorless cameras:

Posted in Fuji | Tagged Fuji X-T1, Fuji X-T10 | 7 Comments

Canon EOS Rebel SL2 rumors

By PR admin | Published: May 26, 2015

The first rumors of a new Canon EOS Rebel SL2 DSLR camera surfaced online - the new model is described to be a smaller, more compact version of the 750D:

Posted in Canon | Tagged Canon EOS Rebel SL2 | 2 Comments

What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: May 26, 2015

→ The Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 85mm f/1.2 lens is now available for pre-order at B&H (additional information available here).

→ Rocky Nook is running a 40% off all eBooks sales this week - use coupon code PHOTOMONTH at checkout.

→ First look at the new Google photos app.

→ Toshiba announced new Exceria Protm SD memory cards for 4K video applications.

Posted in Canon, Casio, Mitakon, Toshiba | 1 Comment

Zeiss is working on new Batis lenses

By PR admin | Published: May 25, 2015

Zeiss recently published a Q&A session on their new full frame mirrorless Batis lenses (for now only for Sony FE mount) and confirmed that other focal lengths are coming in the future:

Q: Are additional focal lengths planned? If so, what are they?

A: Additional focal lengths will follow. Right now, we do not wish to publish any further details.

Here is another quote from their Facebook page :

Zeiss Touit lenses are currently up to $300 off on B&H and Adorama.