Fujifilm is planning to compete on the full frame market; new X-E2 firmware is coming soon; company wins 5 iF awards

By PR admin | Published: February 17, 2014

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Dpreview published their CP+ interviews with Toshihisa Iida from Fujifilm. Here are the key points:

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Canon doesn’t care about retro design cameras

By PR admin | Published: February 17, 2014

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Canon published a new PDF brochure “Story of the PowerShot G1 X Mark II Development” where they describe in great details how the new G1 X camera ($799) was designed. An interesting paragraph was spotted by Theme on page 14 where Canon is clearly differentiating themselves from the current classic camera design trend:

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Another set of rumored Canon 7D Mark II camera specifications

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2014

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The media presentation for the Panasonic GH4 announcement had a comparison between several different cameras from various manufacturers that included also a “Canon 7D successor” (see screenshot above) along with a set of detailed specifications:

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New Kowa Micro Four Thirds lenses

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2014

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Kowa announced three new Micro Four Thirds lenses scheduled to be released this summer. Here are the technical specifications:

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New Tokina AT-X PRO 24-70mm f/2.8 SD (IF) FX lens spotted at CP+

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2014

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This is the new full-frame Tokina AT-X PRO SD 24-70mm f/2.8 (IF) FX lens that will be announced at Photokina later this year. The new lens was on display at the CP+ show in Japan

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Images from the 2014 CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan

By PR admin | Published: February 16, 2014

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The 2014 CP+ expo is now over. Here are few pictures from the show courtesy of Glenn (see also his flickr stream):

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Pentax 645D II specifications and price report from CP+

By PR admin | Published: February 15, 2014

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DC.Watch published another report from the CP+ show in Japan on the specifications and price of the new Pentax 645D II medium format camera:

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First pictures of the Hasselblad H5D-50c camera

By PR admin | Published: February 14, 2014

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DC.Watch spotted the 50MP Hasselblad H5D-50c medium format camera on display at the 2014 CP+ show in Japan. The official release should be in March:

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Tamron planing to announce a new wide angle zoom and a standard zoom lenses

By PR admin | Published: February 13, 2014

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In addition to the recently announced 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD (Model A010) and 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD MACRO (model B016) lenses, Tamron is also planning to introduce two “strategic new products“: a wide zoom and a standard category zoom lenses. This information was published in the company’s 2013 financial report that can be downloaded here.

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Fuji X-mount “lens cap” lens

By PR admin | Published: February 13, 2014

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Some new products from Fujifilm were on display at the CP+ show in Japan (no official announcement yet). The first one is a tele conversion lens for the X100 and X100s cameras that will turn the fixed 23mm lens into 35mm (50mm equivalent). Fuji already has a wide conversion lens (WCL-X100). The second new product is a X-mount lens cap with actual lens inside:

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The lens cap specifications are:

  • 24mm (35mm equivalent)
  • f/8 aperture
  • weight: 32g
  • more images available at DC.Watch

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