Olympus chairman and president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigned today after the company stock got hit hard based on fraud accusations made by the former CEO Michael Woodford. Tsuyoshi Kikukawa issued an apology but still denied any wrong doing.
You can see the official statement from Olympus here.
Via Bloomberg
From NYTimes – now the FBI is investigating the questionable Olympus deal:
The F.B.I. is now investigating the $687 million payment, according to two people briefed on the case. The focus of the investigation is not yet clear, and a spokesman for the F.B.I. in New York, James M. Margolin, declined to comment.
“We are not aware of any investigation” in the United States over the Gyrus deal, said Yoshiaki Yamada, a spokesman for Olympus in Tokyo. He said he could not comment further, including whether Olympus had been contacted by United States authorities.
The Brazilian website ztop published this Fijifilm Finepix X roadmap. The new Fuji X mirrorless interchangeable lens camera is listed for February, 2012. Not clear if this is the announcement or release date.
Prototypes of the new camera are expected to be shown at the 2012 CES show in January.
Captureintegration got the scoop on a new H4X body that briefly appeared on Hasselblad’s website:
“The H4X provides a fantastic successor or upgrade to your H1 or H2/H2F body and supports all H System lenses, most third party backs*, and even features a film back option. The H4X also provides a technological bridge to our faithful H1 and H2/H2F customers enabling them to take advantage of all the features that photographers have come to expect from a Hasselblad H4 series camera, including Hasselblad’s world-acclaimed True Focus technology, which allows you to concentrate completely on creativity without worrying about focus mechanics, and the ability to use the HVD 90x viewfinder optimized for the 36×48mm format.”
There was some confusion in my previous post on the release date of the new Panasonic GX1. I received some new information and it seems that a new Panasonic camera will be announced on October 28th, 2011 (Panasonic likes to make announcements on Friday for some reason).
Back in August I mentioned about a rumor that GoPro will release a new accessory with a wireless remote trigger. Today GoPro announced the HD HERO2 camera with Wi-Fi remote control and video streaming:
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.
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.
