Nauticam NA-550D underwater housing for Canon EOS Rebel T2i

By PR admin | Published: May 26, 2010

Nauticam will release an underwater housing for Canon EOS Rebel T2i:

More pictures and full press release after the break:

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New Rolleiflex lens at Photokina 2010

By PR admin | Published: May 25, 2010

For Photokina 2010 a new Rolleiflex 150mm f/4 HFT PQS Tele-Apogon lens for medium format cameras is expected to be announced:

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Camera concepts (part 2)

By PR admin | Published: May 25, 2010

Continuing with part 2 of the Camera concept series (camera concepts part 1 can be found here).

Sony concept camera from tecnofotografia:

Canon 3D concept from Dean Franciss:

Fleximus camera – the lens (and I guess the sensor) are mounted on a flexible tube and can be a attached to a LCD display or a viewfinder (source: Art Lebedev, see also the design process of this idea):

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David Kilpatrick’s predictions on what’s next for Sony

By PR admin | Published: May 24, 2010

David Kilpatrick (the person behind the Photoclubalpha website) had this to say on the upcoming Sony products:

  • Many Sony lenses will be updated next year: the SSM & SAM lenses will stay unchanged, “but anything currently with a screw drive focus will be replaced with a motor”. In general Sony will offer more all-round zooms lenses, and will focus on fast glass, prime and special purposes lenses. Some of the expected lenses are:
    • 16-80mm with SSM (or a revised 16-105mm)
    • 10-24mm SAM
    • 18-270mm SAM OSS
    • 70-300mm f/4-5.6 SSM OSS
    • 60mm f/2 SAM
  • The Sony Alpha 7XX (750?) will have 1080i video and the same sensor as the NEX5/3, 7fps, panorama mode and wide range 3-shot HDR. The optical viewfinder will be comparable to the A700, and it will have SSS. Prototypes of the camera were shown with a CZ 16-80mm lens.

Via Photoclubalpha

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Sony announced Cyber-shot phone in Japan

By PR admin | Published: May 23, 2010

Few days ago Sony announced the S003 Cyber-shot phone in Japan. Here are the basic specs:

  • 12.1 MP
  • Sony Exmor image sensor
  • 3.2 inch TFT display (480 x 854 pixels) with 16.7 million colors
  • Dimensions: 118 x 52 x 17.6 mm
  • Weighs 154 grams

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Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica

By PR admin | Published: May 21, 2010

Rayqual to offer Sony E mount adapters for Nikon, Pentax, Canon and Leica lenses. The adapters are expected to be available in July, 2010. For more details visit DC.watch. This will make the Sony NEX cameras comparable to the m4/3 system cameras that already have all kinds of adapters available.

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Sony a290 and a390 kits listed on Belgian site

By PR admin | Published: May 21, 2010

The announcement of the new Sony a290 and a390 DSLRs should be very soon – the different kits are already listed on a Belgian website:

Source

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What is that? Contax digital rangefinder?

By PR admin | Published: May 21, 2010

A reader sent me this picture – it appears to be a Contax rangefinder (just like this one here) but with some additional buttons. The additional dial appears to be the same as in recent Canon DSLRs (see this Canon dial sticker). Maybe a photoshopped stock image?

The picture was published in the Outside magazine:

Source: flickr

You can see it also on their website:

This is how the top of a film Contax G1 rangefinder looks like (source):

The top plate of a Contax G2 rangefinder can bee seen here.

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Mamiya RZ33 incoming

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2010

Mamiya has something new to show on May 25th – Mamiya RZ33:

Source

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Sony A390 appears in a camera water housing specs

By PR admin | Published: May 20, 2010

The first link that was posted on dpreview is already removed but reefphoto still lists the Ikelite SLR-DC Housing for Sony A230, A330 &A390:

Sony α290 already leaked last week and based on the interview with Toru Katsumoto, the next set of Sony DSLR could very well be the Sony α290 and α390.

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