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New Canon patents for 100-400mm and 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 lenses with diffractive optical element (DOE)

By PR admin | Published: May 24, 2014

Canon 100-400mm f:4.5-5.6 DO lens patent

Canon 70-300mm f:4.5-5.6 DO lens patent

A quick update to my last post: Canon filed new patents for a 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 and 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6 lenses with diffractive optical element (DOE).

Via Egami

Posted in Canon| Tagged Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II lens, Patents| 4 Comments

The latest patents from Sigma and Olympus

By PR admin | Published: May 23, 2014

Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 lens patent

Sigma 12-24mm f/2.8 lens patent

Sigma filed patents for several different lenses designed for APS-C based DSLR cameras: 18-35mm f/1.8, 15-30mm f/1.8, 17-35mm f/1.8, 16-50mm f/2.8 and 12-24mm f/2.8.

Olympus filed a patent for a 12-150mm f/4-6.3 Micro Four Thirds lens with image stabilization (IS).

Posted in Olympus, Sigma| Tagged Patents| 8 Comments

Leica celebrates their 100 years anniversary and new headquarter with several new products

By PR admin | Published: May 22, 2014

To celebrate their 100 years anniversary and their brand new headquarter (Leitz Park) in Wetzlar, Leica Camera announced several new products today (including a new watch). For more details check LeicaRumors:

Posted in Leica| 7 Comments

Adobe working on a new touch-based Photoshop CC version for tablets

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2014

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Adobe is apparently working a new touch-based version of Photoshop CC specially designed for tablets:

Posted in Adobe| 8 Comments

Rumored Fuji X30 camera with 1″ sensor to be announced soon

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2014

Few days ago I posted about the Fuji X20 camera being listed as discontinued at B&H. The Chinese website xjrumo now reports that a new Fujifilm X30 camera with a 1″ sensor will be announced in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more details.

Posted in Fuji| Tagged Fuji X30| 31 Comments

The cheapest full frame camera available today (new Sony a7 price drop)

By PR admin | Published: May 19, 2014

The price of the Sony a7 full frame mirrorless camera dropped by $200 today (after $200 instant savings, incl. free 32GB memory card and free hand grip strap, free shipping and 4% in rewards). This is the lowest price for a new full frame digital camera I have ever seen (the Nikon D610 still sells for around $1,900).

There is also a new $250 instant saving on the Sony a7r with the LA-EA4 mount adapter kit combo (price after discount: $2,395.95). For comparison, the price of the Sony a7s model is $2,498 (shipping starts on July 8th).

Posted in Deals, Sony| 50 Comments

Updated Sony FE lens roadmap released

By PR admin | Published: May 19, 2014

Sony Japan released an updated Sony FE lens roadmap. Two new lenses were added:

Vario-Tessar T* 16-35mm f/4 ZA OSS (SEL1635Z)
FE PZ 28-135mm f/4 G OSS (SELP28135G)

Posted in Sony, Zeiss| Tagged Roadmaps, Sony FE PZ 28-135mm f/4 G OSS, Sony Roadmap| 10 Comments

What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: May 18, 2014

→ Tokina officially announced their AT-X 70-200mm f/4 PRO FX VCM-S lens.

→ Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD lens ($1,069.00) for Nikon mount is now shipping.

→ Nik Collection by Google revealed Analog Efex Pro v2. More info is available here.

→ The Fuji X20 camera is listed as discontinued at B&H

→ This new OTTO camera saves motion as animated GIF files.

Posted in Fuji, Olympus, Ricoh, Tamron, Tokina| Tagged Nik Software, Patents| 6 Comments

Sony RX100M3 camera and a7s pricing announced

By PR admin | Published: May 16, 2014

The Sony RX100M3 is now officially announced. The US price is $798 and the camera is now available for pre-order. Sample images can be found here.

Sony also released the pricing of their a7s mirrorless camera (12MP, 4k video, high ISO of 409,600): $2498 (pre-order link).

Sony RX100M3 main features:

Bright, wide angle ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm F1.8-2.8 lens
Clear, retractable OLED Tru-Finder™ with ZEISS® T* coating
20.1 effective megapixel back-illuminated 1.0-type Exmor R™ CMOS sensor and powerful BIONZ X processor
50 Mbps high bit-rate Full HD movies with XAVC S support
LCD flips for easy selfies
4K still image output
Evolved manual controls and new custom button
Support for PlayMemories Camera Apps

Posted in Sony| Tagged Sony a7s, Sony DSC-RX100M3| 42 Comments

What else is new: Adobe Cloud is down, Sony camera sales fall by a third

By PR admin | Published: May 15, 2014

We’re currently experiencing an outage affecting user’s ability to sign in to our services. We are working on a fix- stay tuned
— Adobe Customer Care (@AdobeCare) May 14, 2014

→ This is why the new Adobe Cloud subscription sucks. Read more about it here.

→ Sony camera sales fall by a third:

“Camera sales – which include interchangeable-lens models, compacts and lens-style cameras – dropped by 5.5 million units (32.3%), to 11.5m, on a year earlier.”

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