The Impossible Project will bring the color back to Polaroid cameras

By PR admin | Published: July 28, 2010

Tomorrow the Impossible Project is expected to announce a new color instant film for Polaroid SX 70 cameras (price: £34). Earlier this year the company announced their black and white PX 600 Silver Shade Instant film.

Via AP

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Panasonic makes a 3D move

By PR admin | Published: July 27, 2010

Panasonic officially announced their 3D camcorder HDC-SDT750. It will cost $1400 and it will be available in October.

Panasonic also announced plans for interchangeable 3D lens for Micro Four Thirds which should be available by the end of the year:

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Samsung is preparing two new digital cameras

By PR admin | Published: July 27, 2010

All I have are those two pictures. I do not know the specs or any model numbers. One of cameras looks like a cell phone (maybe it is a cell phone, or some kind of a video cam):

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New from Sony: 24mm f/2, 35mm f/1.8 and 85mm f/2.8 Alpha lenses

By PR admin | Published: July 27, 2010

Why after I switched to white background, press photos started to come out on a black background?

Sony today announced the rumored 24mm f/2 lens and two more primes: 35mm f/1.8 and 85mm f/2.8 for the Alpha mount. This announcement comes a day after several websites reported the rumor that Sony may stop producing full frame sensors. What’s next from Sony? I expect an indirect response (maybe in an interview) stating that they are committed to the full frame format and will continue to produce full frame cameras and lenses (now if those will have a Sony sensor inside is a different story).

Full press release on the three new lenses after the break:

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Hoya Corp. filed a patent for a water-resistant, interchangeable lens camera

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2010

Hoya filed a patent back in 2007 of what appears to be a water-resistant interchangeable lens camera:

The full patent 7756405 can be found here:

“Field of the invention: The present invention relates to an interchangeable lens which is selectively mountable to a packing-compatible camera body and a packing-incompatible camera body, and also relates to a camera system which includes a packing-compatible camera body, this packing-incompatible camera body and a interchangeable lens.
Description of the related art: Conventionally, in order to provide a water-resistant camera system which is composed of at least one interchangeable lens and a camera body, the interchangeable lens is provided at the rear end thereof with an annular packing made of a resilient material. This annular packing comes into elastic contact with a body-side mount (body mount) of a camera body when the interchangeable lens is mounted to the camera body.
Camera manufacturers manufacture their own-brand camera bodies so that all these camera bodies have body-side mounts of the same shape and size to make all their own-brand interchangeable lenses compatible with all their own-brand camera bodies (note that the shape and size of the body-side mount differ according to camera manufacturers).”
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Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens to be announced at Photokina

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2010


This is the response from Samyang regarding the upcoming 35mm f/1.4 lens:

“We would like to show a sample on Photokina.
It starts 21 September of this year.
35mm will be 1.4 we don’t plan to make it 1.2. It should be available at the end of this year.”

You can see the complete email correspondence on FredMiranda.

The Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens will have manual focus.

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Tamron to announce the price of the SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD lens on July 29th

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010
Update: the price in Europe seems to be € 449,00.
Tamron will announce the price of the new Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD lens on July 29th, 2010 (+/- 1 day depending on your location). This lens was released back in March, 2010 (see full press release). The Tamron SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD should feel a lot like the Nikon 70-300 (similar length and weight) and should have a very fast AF. This is a full frame lens.
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Interesting links from the past week

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

What you may have missed  this week:

“Enhanced with built-in phase detection pixels, Super CCD EXR is the first sensor in the world with both contrast and phase detection auto focus. F300EXR harnesses this power with an innovative hybrid AF system that intelligently selects between the two focus systems. In most scenes and especially dark scenes, conventional Contrast AF captures beautiful results, but struggles to find a focus when shooting high-contrast subjects or with a long zoom. Only F300EXR with Hybrid Auto Focus can instantly switch to the speed and accuracy of Phase Detection AF for these scenes. Even at maximum 15x zoom when subject is moving and the moment is fleeting, you won’t miss the shot!

Phase detection sensor pairs on the EXR sensor work like the sensors of a DSLR. Unlike slower Contrast AF which continually adjusts until maximum contrast is detected. Phase Detection AF divides incoming light into image pairs, performs a single calculation of the phase difference to determine the precise direction and amount of focus adjustment achieving an incredible auto focus detection speed of 0.158* seconds.”

  • CreativeMayhem talks about a new Canon G12 being scheduled for a September announcement (before Photokina). G11 as announced in August 2009, G10 was announced in September 2008… you see the pattern.

  • Rumors that Pentax may join m4/3 with a new camera and 3 lenses are still spreading around. If this happens, there should be some kind of announcement at Photokina.
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Pansonic HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder leaks out

By PR admin | Published: July 25, 2010

As previously reported the 3D effect is achieved by a 3D adapter that attaches to the front lens:

  • “World’s first 3D shooting camcorder”
  • 1080p AVCHD at 60fps
  • proprietary Hybrid O.I.S.

The leak came from Panasonic’s own website again:

Via Engadget

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Canon “small SLR” update

By PR admin | Published: July 24, 2010

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An update to the previous news from Reuters that Canon is working on a “smaller version of its upmarket single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras”. This is the statement Masaya Maeda (head of the Image Communication Products division) made to Reuters on this topic:

“It’s not a question of whether or not you have a mirror. There is a consumer need for good-quality cameras to be made smaller,” Maeda said. “We will meet this need.”
He denied this would be difficult without removing the internal mirror, adding that Canon had produced very small SLR cameras in the past.
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