Watch the CES Sony press event live now

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2011

You can watch Sony CES press conference live starting at 5pm PST today:

update: the online live event is now over

Today is CES press day (Fuji, Canon, Sony)

By PR admin | Published: January 5, 2011

Today is press day at CES 2011. Many new products will be announced in the next few hours. On the camera site so far there are no big surprises from what was already reported:

Fuji announced eleven new point and shoot models. You can read more about the different Fuji cameras and their new EXR-CMOS BSI sensor here. Full press releases at Photographybay.

Canon‘s new batch of Powershot cameras went down in price. The surprise here was the Canon G10 – no, not that G10, it’s a new camcorder.

The new set of Sony cameras are only covered at focus-numerique for now.

All will have more updates throughout the day as new announcements are coming in.

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Pentax released new firmware for K-5, K-r and 645D

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

Pentax just released new firmware updates not only for the K-5, but also for the K-r (ver. 1.01) and 645D (ver. 1.01) cameras.

The firmware can be downloaded from network.pentax.eu.

Update: the firmware updates are now official.

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Fuji X100 design story

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

Fuji released another X100 chapter and this time they are describing the design of the camera. Included are also pictures of the leather case. In the ongoing poll for favorite camera of 2010, the Fuji x100 is currently taking the #2 spot (out of aprox. 1800 voters so far).

More product pictures after the break:

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Update: What to expect for CES 2011 (and what’s announced already)

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

CES 2011 show is starting in two days in Las Vegas. Here is a list of what was announced already (scroll down for the list of upcoming announcements):

The three new cameras from Kodak that leaked on Amazon are already announced:

Lexar released a 128GB SDXC memory card:

Samsung announced a new Wi-Fi enabled SH100, NX11 and WB700 cameras:

You can watch Sony CES press conference live on the Web on January 5th, 2011 at 5pm PST:

After the break: what is still to be announced:

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Fuji’s two top cameras for CES 2011

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

Shown below are the two high end cameras to be introduced by Fuji at CES 2011: FinePix HS20EXR:

16 MP EXR-CMOS sensor
30x, 24mm-720mm equivalent lens
3.0” LCD
electronic viewfinder

Fuji FinePix HS20EXR

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Pentax K-5 firmware v1.02 is unofficially available

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2011

The firmware is available on this site: https://network.pentax.eu. You have to be a registered user in order to download the software. Since there are no release notes, it is unclear what exactly is fixed with this firmware update (maybe they fixed the sensor issue, that made Amazon.de halt the selling of the K-5).

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The biggest leak ever (Casio Tryx)

By PR admin | Published: January 3, 2011

Casio decided to show their new and unannounced camera on huge billboards in Las Vegas few days before CES:

According to Engadget the new Casio camera is called TRYX:

“Casio TRYX imager sports two hinges for the sake of versatility: one for the frame that doubles as a handle or a stand, and one for swiveling the display — presumably a touchscreen since there are just a couple of buttons on the body.”

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