Dpreview member redcrow has a very good track record when it comes to “predicting” upcoming Samsung NX products (see previous posts here and here). Redcrow’s latest comments suggest that Samsung is working on “multiple” image sensors for NX bodies that will be released next year. A new 85mm f/1.4 lens is also expected.
In another post from two months ago, redcrow mentioned that Samsung will release also a new “DSLR style” camera.
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Today’s giveaway is for a “Photographer’s Guide to the Panasonic Lumix LX5” book (paperback) that just got released few days ago.
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The best part?
The publisher is willing to ship this book anywhere in the world.
More details about the book after the break:
There is a a rumor coming from Australia that Phase One is working on a digital back with live view for medium format cameras that will be able to record RAW video.
This picture of Pentax equipment found on flickr is showing a new Pentax A* 135mm f/1.8 lens. Here is a close-up of the lens:
For comparison, this is how the old Pentax A* 135mm f/1.8 lens looks like (image source: eBay):
There has been a stream of new sensor announcements in the past few days (see here and here). This is because of the Vision 2010 show that starts tomorrow in Stuttgart, Germany.
Today we learned more about the Sony “Super 35mm” sensor that is inside the new Sony digital motion picture camcorder. The next diagram show that the new Sony sensor has four times bigger pixel size than a regular DSLR camera:
I will not cover new sensors that are not tailored for the photo/video industry (like this one).
Update: another 8MP sensor for smart phones got announced today.
Similar to Samsung, Sony also filed a patent for a liquid lens. Instead of rotating the focus ring, like on a traditional lens, liquid lenses are controlled by electricity that changes the different refractive indexes of the liquid the light passes through:
“Disclosed is a liquid lens element. The liquid lens element includes a main body, a lens surface, and a first reflection surface. The main body has a light incident surface and a light exiting surface and includes a liquid chamber formed therein. The lens surface changes orientation of light that exits the light exiting surface by being electrically deformed, and the lens surface is formed of an interface between two liquids that are contained in the liquid chamber and have refractive indexes. The first reflection surface reflects part of light that enters the light incident surface toward an optical axis of the lens surface, and the first reflection surface is provided to the main body.”
One of the main advantage of liquid lenses is small size and low power consumption which will make them best suited for the cell phone industry.
After the Panasonic Lumix Phone and the news about Olympus making an offer to buy a cell phone company, LG today announced a new camera-phone that looks more like a camera than a phone. The new LG L-03C has:
This is what Sony’s teaser was about – their new PMW-F3 Super 35mm digital motion picture camcorder:
The new camera is available in two different flavors: PMW-F3K with three lenses (35mm, 50mm, 85mm) and PMW-F3L with PL mount adapter. The new cameras are expected to be released in February 2011. The price for the lens kit will be 2,205,000 JPY (around 27,000 USD) and without-lens 1,522,500 JPY (around 18,000 USD)
Full press release after the break:
I finally got some time to upload few images from PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010 that ended last week.
Pentax
Pentax had a big table (not really a booth) with all of their latest products, including the 645D. You can download a sample RAW file taken with the 645D here (DropBox is great for sharing large files):
Sony
Sony had the second largest booth on the show (after Canon) and there had a lot of equipment on display as well as presentations and even some BMX action:
Sony has a new teaser out of what appears to be a video camera. The speculations are for a new digital motion picture camera with a “full frame” (35mm) sensor. The announcement is expected on November 17th, 2010.
Via FDTimes
