The camera that can take pictures around corners

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2012

This video is an update on this post from 2010 about the MIT camera that can take pictures around corners.

Read more at Scientific American.

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Nauticam NA-GX1 underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix GX1

By PR admin | Published: March 21, 2012

Nauticam announced a new underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix GX1 camera with a depth rating of 100m. The US price is $1200 and will start shipping at the end of March, 2012.

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Pentax K-z?

By PR admin | Published: March 20, 2012

Just like the first banner, I don’t know much about those images and how reliable this information is. At least we can now clearly see the model name in the top right corner: Pentax K-z.

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 sneak peek video #6 and #7

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2012

Adobe Photoshop published CS6 sneak peek episode #6 and #7. The next video was created entirely in a future version of Photoshop:

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Polaroid to introduce a new series of sports video cameras

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2012

Polaroid is expected to announce a new series of HD waterproof helmet/bike/surfboard/snowboard mounted video cameras. The basic specs are:

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Pentax K-r successor?

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2012

I received this image today of what appears to be an advertising for the Pentax K-r successor (Pentax K-r is already discontinued).

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Panasonic 12-60mm f/4.5-5.6 and Olympus 150mm f/2.8 lens patent

By PR admin | Published: March 19, 2012

Panasonic filed a patent (201247813) in Japan for a 12-60mm f/4.5-5.6 Micro Four Thirds lens:

  • Patent release date: March 8th, 2012
  • Patent filed on: August 24th, 2010
  • Focal length: 58.1999-12.3599mm
  • Aperture: 4.63557-5.76853
  • Angle of view: 10.1280-4.3446 deg.
  • Zoom ratio: 4.70875
  • Lens design: 11 elements in 8 groups
  • 1 ED glass element
  • 5 aspherical elements
  • Optical Image Stabilizer
  • Internal focusing/zooming

Patent 201253260 is for a 150mm f/2.8 Macro lens by Olympus. Several different lens designs were described – for Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds cameras:

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Rumor: Zeiss will announce a new 70-200mm lens at NAB

By PR admin | Published: March 17, 2012

Zeiss is rumored to announced a new compact lightweight 70-200mm f/2.? tele zoom lens at the NAB show in Las Vegas next month. The lens will be available in Canon and Nikon mounts. The expected price will be around $10k. I think this will be a cinema zoom lens, similar to the Zeiss LWZ.2 Lightweight 15.5-45mm T2.6 ($29,000).

A new 70-200mm lens was already mentioned in the 2012 Zeiss roadmap few months ago:

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Panasonic GF5 picture leaked *updated*

By PR admin | Published: March 17, 2012

This is the first leaked picture of the upcoming Panasonic GF5 camera. The size and design resembles the Panasonic GF3 model. The expected specs are:

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Sony 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM lens leaked

By PR admin | Published: March 17, 2012

Sony Europe leaked a picture of the upcoming Sony 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM (Super Sonic Motor) lens. This will probably be a DT (Digital Technology) lens for use on cameras with APS-C sensors.

Via Digicame-info

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