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:
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:
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:
Sony NEX-7 is no longer available on Amazon “due to manufacturing concerns”. Similar to Nikon, Sony got hit very hard by the flooding in Thailand.
Update: the Sony a65 is also removed from Amazon.
Today Olympus released an official response to the fraud accusations brought by the former CEO Michael Woodford:
Lytro’s new camera is now on their website. Check the specs and press release at the bottom of this post.
Engadget has a development story: Lytro has shown their light field camera for the first time. More to come…
From what I’ve read online, it seems that Olympus got themselves in a big mess. Reportedly, Olympus paid over $675 million (that equals to almost two years company’s earnings) to unknown accounts in the Cayman Islands. The company that received the payments disappeared two weeks later. The payments were supposed to be a commission for a recent acquisition, the only problems was that such deals are usually done on a 1-3% commission. In that case the commission was over 35%. There were even some accusations of organized crime involvement… Here is the story in links and videos:
New 61-Point Autofocus, Fast Shooting up to 12 fps, 18-Megapixel Full-Frame CMOS Sensor, 100,000-pixel RGB Metering Sensor, Face Detection technology, Full HD Video Recording – just some of the specs of the new EOS-1D X flagship camera from Canon.
Canon EOS-1D X is now official. You can read a good break down of all the specs at planet5D or just check the attached press release. The actual EOS-1D X release is 6 moths away but JessopS (UK) is already taking pre-orders at £5299.95.
