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Samyang announces the 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens

By PR admin | Published: February 28, 2011

Today Samyang released the 8mm f/3.5 FISH-EYE CS VG10 lens designed specifically for the Sony NEX-VG10 digital camcorder. Price and availability will be announced at a later date.

Press release:

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Two new flash accessories to be revealed at Photojojo store on Monday

By PR admin | Published: February 27, 2011

Photojojo will add two new flash accessories to its online store on Monday:

The Pop-up Flash Bounce ($30)

“This smart and simple hood contains a mirror that directs the flash on your camera up, bouncing it off the ceiling to create even, natural light just like the pro’s do with their external flashes.”

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Two new sensors from Sony

By PR admin | Published: February 27, 2011

Sony developed a 17.7MP sensor that can “convert multiple pixels into signals simultaneously” and achieve up to 75% reduction of the conversion time compared to existing sensors. Some more specs:

can shoot video at 120fps
processing speed of 34.8Gbps
low power consumption
for use in cell phone and digital cameras

Sony also announced a 1/2.3″ 12.4MP BSI CMOS sensor that can provide 42fps at full resolution and 1080p/60fps video. See detailed specs at sony.net.

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Samsung’s plans for the future

By PR admin | Published: February 24, 2011

Image: Samsung

Over a month ago, WhatDigitalCamera visited Samsung HQ in Seoul and got some interesting information:

In 2010 Samsung produced 18million lenses.
Samsung confirmed a commitment of making five new lenses a year (the lenses for 2011 are already announced).
They confirmed that a prototype of a 700mm NX lens is already existing.
By 2015 Samsung expects the compact system camera market to overtake the DSLR sales by volume.
Samsung is expecting to develop Super High Definition 4K2K video in the company’s stills cameras as soon as 2013.

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All future Sony Alpha models to have translucent mirror

By PR admin | Published: February 24, 2011

During a presentation is Zaragoza Spain, Sony representatives confirmed that all future Sony Alpha cameras will have translucent mirror technology (see also pellicle mirror).

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Guest post: Sigma SD1 update

By PR admin | Published: February 24, 2011

Sigma SD1

This guest post is written by Bob van Ooik from X3magazine. You can visit also the original article “A wealth of Sigma SD1 info”.

As a long time user of Sigma cameras the introduction of the SD1 is something I look forward to very much. Recently the CP+ fair was held in Japan and there Sigma released more info into the world through a new microsite and several formal and informal sources. Most of the info below is confirmed by one or more sources but as they are still developing nothing is set in stone.

One big rumor I would like to squash immediately. There is a lot of talk of Sigma wanting to release the SD1 end of February. As far as I know they never made this promise but they do aim for a (late) spring release. The body is basically done and could go into production soon but the firmware (on the bodies at the show) is still at version 0.5 and still needs a bit of work.

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Close up of the new Samsung NX lenses (video)

By PR admin | Published: February 23, 2011

This video shows the five new Samsung NX lenses in action:

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Sony NEX 3 discontinued and ready to be replaced

By PR admin | Published: February 23, 2011

Sony Japan lists the NEX 3 mirrorless camera as discontinued on their website. It seems that the NEX products are on a 12 months refresh cycle (Sony NEX 3 was introduced in May of 2010).

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