Photo Rumors

What else is new?

By PR admin | Published: October 27, 2013

→Check out those new Canon deals on Amazon.

→Kodak wins $76million in patent dispute with Ricoh.

→Similar to Nikon Canon also cut their full-year forecast as camera users switch to smart phones.

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Some Fuji rumors from the Photo Plus Expo

By PR admin | Published: October 26, 2013

Some Fuji rumors from the Photo Plus Expo:

New lens roadmap coming in early 2014 with new lenses
New fast, f/2.8 constant aperture, mid-range zoom and longer zoom lenses are planned
Some of the new lenses will be weather-sealed
Fujifilm is working on a new organic sensor
No info on a potential Fuji X-Pro2 release
A full frame Fuji camera is probably 1 – 2 years away
Fuji is not interested in competing on pixel count, but on pixel quality

Posted in Fuji| Tagged Fuji X-Pro2| 18 Comments

Pentax K-3 camera additional coverage

By PR admin | Published: October 26, 2013

The new Pentax K-3 DSLR camera is scheduled to start shipping in early November. I was offline during the K-3 announcement and I had multiple emails from readers asking for some additional coverage (I only briefly mentioned the K-3 in this recap):

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Sakar showing their Kodak-branded Micro Four Thirds lenses at the PhotoPlus Expo

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Sakar Kodak 25mm f/0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds

Sakar Kodak 50mm f/1.1 lens for Micro Four Thirds

Sakar Kodak 8mm f3 fisheye lens for Micro Four Thirds

Ther is a new Kodak-branded Micro Four Thirds lenses at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York: 25mm f/0.95, 50mm f/1.1 and 8mm f/3 fisheye . The lenses are manufactured by Sakar – the same company that produced the Polaroid iM1836 mirrorless camera. Sakar is not to be confused with JK Imaging who is the manufacturer of the Kodak S1 Micro Four Thirds camera.

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Olympus UK promises “soon to be announced high-end compact” camera as a photo competition prize

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Olympus UK is currently running a photo competition where the second prize will be a “soon to be announced high-end compact from Olympus“:

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Ricoh/Pentax full frame camera rumors

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Pentax Russia gave some new information on their upcoming full frame DSLR camera in a recent interview with penta-club.ru (via Pentaxforums):

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First picture of the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50 macro lens

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Zeiss published on Facebook the first picture of their new Touit 2.8/50mm macro lens. B&H has the shipping date is listed as February 27th, 2014. The lens will be available in Sony and Fuji mounts.

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Sigma announces the price and availability of the 24-105mm f/4 DG OS HSM lens

By PR admin | Published: October 25, 2013

Sigma set the price of their new Sigma 24-105mm f/4 DG OS HSM lens at $899 (available for pre-order at B&H and Adorama). The Nikon and Sigma mounts will be available in December, the Sony version will come later. All but the Sony version of the lens have Sigma’s Optical Stabilizer (OS) technology to compensate for camera shake.