Canon 60D listing shows up on DXO

By PR admin | Published: July 29, 2010

Canon 60D appeared on a DXO listing today:

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Canon EVIL concept

By PR admin | Published: July 29, 2010

This Canon EVIL camera concept was designed by Idan Shechter of DigitalPhotographyWriter. This rendering is just an artist’s view of the camera and is not linked to Canon in any way.

The latest comments from Canon indicated that they are still not ready to completely drop the mirror and are trying to create a “small SLR” camera.

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Four new Sony cameras rumored: A33, A55, A560, A580

By PR admin | Published: July 29, 2010


Details about four new APS-C based cameras from Sony have surfaced online:

  • A55 16MP 10FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD full HD
  • A33 14MP 7FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD full HD
  • A560 14MP 7FPS MF recording AVCHD full HD
  • A580 16MP 7FPS MF recording AVCHD full HD

Announcement is expected in August, in stock in September.

The A33 and A55 models are rumored to be Pellix cameras.

All new models are expected to have DOF preview, panorama/3D, ISO 100 (base), 15 AF focus points and AF during video recording. Nikon is also expected to announce an entry level D3100 with continuous AF during video recording.

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Samsung: new Wi-Fi camera and a pocket camcorder

By PR admin | Published: July 28, 2010

This picture from yesterday was indeed of Samsung’s new pocket camcorder – the HMX-E10 which is now officially announced.

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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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