New Panasonic FX75 & Lumix 8mm f/3.5 G lens

By PR admin | Published: June 1, 2010

Update: the new 8mm fisheye lens is available for pre-order on Amazon.

As previously reported, today Panasonic announced a new Lumix 8mm f/3.5 fisheye G lens and a new point and shoot camera Lumix FX75 (I got a tip in advance and this post was online for a short period of time last week, but then I was politely asked to remove it until the day of the actual announcement):

The Panasonic FX75 will have 14MP and a Leica 24mm ultra-wide-angle f/2.2 Summicron lens with 5x optical zoom. The camera will support HD video in AVCHD Lite format. No RAW file format.

Full press release after the break:

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Another amazing Samsung concept from Tecnofotografia

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

After the amazing Sony concept, today Tecnofotografia published a new Samsung concept – you can attach the flash unit on top of the viewfinder! Can someone offer those guys a job to design photo equipment?

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New Metz Mecablitz 58 AF-2 flash?

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

Metz has listed a new Mecablitz 58 AF-2 flash unit on their website:

It will be available for Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Leica, Pentax, Sony. At that point no further details are provided on their website.

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Tamron update

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

Many Tamron lenses are available @ 50% discount from their regular MSRP on Amazon – maybe they are clearing inventory for Photokina announcements:

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Samyang lenses update

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

Now the complete product lineup from  Samyang is available for sale (some products were previously available only for pre-order):

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Some Tokina rumors

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

In addition to the rumored update of the 80-400mm with VR lens, Tokina will also introduce a new 16-28 f/2.8 full frame lens this Fall (probably around Photokina). Tokina currently makes the most compact 80-400 lens (Tokina 80-400/4.5-5.6 AT-X 840 D) in the market and most of their lenses are made in Japan.

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Sony Alpha cameras get 3D treatment from NVIDIA and more

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

Update on the latest Sony developments:

  • From dpreview: Sony gives details of double-layered microlenses.
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Nobody likes Pentax

By PR admin | Published: May 31, 2010

Bloomberg reports that Yutaka Yamanaka, the grandson of the Hoya Corp. founders is not happy with the $1billion purchase of Pentax and describes it as “overpriced” and “failure”. This is not really surprising and all stories about Hoya trying to sell Pentax are probably more than just a rumor (via pentaxforums).

Another Pentax related rumor: there is a thread in the PentaxForums that the 50mm lens will be discontinued this Fall and Pentax will move forward with  the 55mm model.

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Fuji to release Natura Classica White Limited Edition

By PR admin | Published: May 30, 2010

First, this is a film camera and apparently a good one. It sells for $300-$400 on eBay. Fuji decided to make a limited 3000 pieces edition.

Details (computer translated):

  • Released in late June, 2010
  • Product Features “Non-flash” program made it possible to control its own exposure shooting “NP” mode features.
  • F2.8 lens and a bright, 28mm wide angle to 56mm with 2x zoom.
  • with exposure compensation function (7) NP (Photo Natural) with a release function mode.

Via Cnet

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Sony NEX 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 OSS lens coming in September

By PR admin | Published: May 28, 2010

The Sony NEX 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 OSS lens is expected to be released on September 16th in Japan:

Via Yodobashi

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