Rumor: Panasonic GX1 to be announced on November 8th (updated)

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

Update: the Panasonic GX1 announcement will be on November 8th, 2011.

According to digicame-info, Panasonic will announce a new Micro Four Thirds camera called GX1 with the following specs:

  • appearance and size similar to the Lumix GF1
  • 16MP sensor (from the G3)
  • new image processing engine
  • high ISO: 12800
  • very fast AF
  • 920k touchscreen
  • LVF2 external viewfinder with 1,440,000 dots
  • kit lens: Lumix GX 14-42mm.
  • will be available in two colors: black and silver
  • announcement on October 25 November 8th, released on the Japanese market on November 25th, few weeks later in Europe and the US

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Samsung NX1, NX20 listings briefly showed up on support site

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

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:

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Sony NEX-7, NEX-5N, NEX-C3 and a65 now officially delayed

By PR admin | Published: October 20, 2011

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:

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Fuji X100 special edition

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

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:

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Lytro camera hands-on videos

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

Here are few hands-on video of the new Lytro camera that got announced earlier today:

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Sony NEX-7, A65 removed from Amazon “due to manufacturing concerns”

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

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.

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Olympus releases an official response to fraud allegations

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

Today Olympus released an official response to the fraud accusations brought by the former CEO Michael Woodford:

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Lytro’s new light field camera is now official

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

Lytro’s new camera is now on their website. Check the specs and press release at the bottom of this post.

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Lytro shows their light field camera for the first time

By PR admin | Published: October 19, 2011

Engadget has a development story: Lytro has shown their light field camera for the first time. More to come…

  • More pictures of the Lytro camera: -1- | -2- | -3-
  • Prices: $399 for 8GB, $499 for 16 GB camera.
  • See the live blog on AllThingsD and more details from Gizmodo.
  • f/2 constant aperture lens, 8x optical zoom, no flash, touchscreen
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Olympus stock down almost 50%, disappearing Cayman Islands offshore accounts, organized crime accusation…

By PR admin | Published: October 18, 2011

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:

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