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The latest Canon instant rebates

By PR admin | Published: October 24, 2011

Those are the latest Canon instant rebates that started yesterday:

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Nauticam NA-GF3 underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix GF3 announced

By PR admin | Published: October 24, 2011

Nauticam announced the NA-GF3 underwater housing for Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 camera. The housing has a depth rating of 100m and costs $1650. Shipping starts on October 31, 2011.

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New: Kenko Lens2scope, a spotting scope adapter for lenses

By PR admin | Published: October 22, 2011

I was doing some research online for lens scope converter in connection to a recent guest post on NikonRumors and it seems that Kenko recently released the Lens2scope – a spotting scope adapter for camera lenses, available for Nikon and Canon mounts. This adapter will let you use your existing lenses as a telescope with a 10x magnification. Check Amazon for pricing.

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Olympus fraud accusations update

By PR admin | Published: October 21, 2011

Few quick updates on the Olympus fraud accusations by their former CEO Michael Woodford:

“Ousted Olympus Corp chief executive Michael Woodford is consulting police over whether he needs protection after passing “new information” to British fraud investigators about the Japanese company’s irregular payments to advisory firms” (Reuters)

“The veteran banker, Hajime ‘Jim’ Sagawa, owned an obscure U.S. financial firm which was hired by the endoscope-maker five years ago to provide what later turned out to be stunningly expensive advice, a fee of $687 million (435 million pounds), the documents show” (Reuters)

“The $687 million fee Japan’s Olympus Corp paid its financial advisers for the $2.2 billion purchase of a British medical equipment maker is one for the record books, literally” (Reuters)

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Rumor: Panasonic GX1 to be announced on November 8th (updated)

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

Update: the Panasonic GX1 announcement will be on November 8th, 2011.

According to digicame-info, Panasonic will announce a new Micro Four Thirds camera called GX1 with the following specs:

appearance and size similar to the Lumix GF1
16MP sensor (from the G3)
new image processing engine
high ISO: 12800
very fast AF
920k touchscreen
LVF2 external viewfinder with 1,440,000 dots
kit lens: Lumix GX 14-42mm.
will be available in two colors: black and silver
announcement on ~~October 25~~ November 8th, released on the Japanese market on November 25th, few weeks later in Europe and the US

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Samsung NX1, NX20 listings briefly showed up on support site

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

Samsung’s Global Download Centre had listing for the unreleased NX20 and NX1 cameras. Those model names are now removed. The Samsung NX1 is expected to be announced in 2012 and will probably be the top of the line NX camera. Few months ago there were rumors about a new prototype camera called R1 with the following specs:

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Sony NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 now officially delayed

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

Sony Japan publish a statement confirming Amazon’s product listing note that the NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 cameras will be postponed. It’s interesting to note that the a77 was not listed as delayed. No firm release dates were given:

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Fuji X100 special edition

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

There is a new Fuji X100 special edition for the Hong Kong market. The price is 14010 HKD (a regular x100 costs around 11360 HKD), only 200 pieces will be produced:

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