Fuji officially announced the Fujinon XF 23mm f/1.4 R lens. The price is $899.95, shipping will start on October 16, 2013, Amazon is now accepting pre-orders. Sample images from the new lens can be found here.
Press release:
Fuji officially announced the Fujinon XF 23mm f/1.4 R lens. The price is $899.95, shipping will start on October 16, 2013, Amazon is now accepting pre-orders. Sample images from the new lens can be found here.
Press release:
Another rumor materialized today: Adobe announced a new Photoshop Photography Program that includes Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Behance ProSite and 20GB of storage for $9.99 per month:
Ilford opened its first black and white film development lab in the US to meet demand for traditional silver gelatin black and white images.
Sony Image Sensor business is booming, see original article. More information available here.
Canon looks for opportunities in surveillance as camera growth slows down.
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to prosecute Olympus over the financial scandal from last year.
For tomorrow's scheduled press event Ricoh will most likely announce a new 360° camera called Pentax Theta 360. Such camera was rumored last year, but the Pentax acquisition by Ricoh probably delayed the announcement. Various prototypes of similar camera were shown at Photokina (by Pentax) and during the CES show (by Ricoh). The above screenshot taken earlier today is from Ricoh/Pentax website but the page is now removed. You can still access the cached pages here. There could also be other new products that will be introduced.
Digicame-info published an Olympus invitation for a press event scheduled for next week and confirmed what I already reported last week: the Olympus E-M1 camera and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-40mm f/2.8 lens will be announced on September 10th.
Sony officially announced the following new products:
Hands-on videos:
I received some information that Panasonic is working on a whole new series of pancake power zoom lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras that will be similar in size to the current 14mm f/2.5 prime (pictured above). I expect to receive more detailed information in the coming weeks and months.
Well, they did it: today Kodak officially announced that they are exiting bankruptcy and will continue to exists as a "technology company serving imaging for business markets – including packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services". Here is the full press release: