Sony A99 specs

By PR admin | Published: May 13, 2012

Some rumored Sony A99 specs found on xitek.com:

  • The Sony A99 camera will have 24.3 MP full frame sensor.
  • The A99 will have 102 focus points.
  • Two different A99 prototypes are being evaluated - one of them has a flip and touch screen.
  • The A99 will have 3 million pixel high-definition EVF.
  • To be announced in September 2012.
  • Price: 18,000 yuan (around $2,800).
  • The A99 will  support 24 video recording formats and a variety of screen style filters.
  • The body of the A99 will be larger and heavier than the A77.

And few other interesting points:
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Next week announcement: Sony a37 and NEX-F3 cameras

By PR admin | Published: May 11, 2012

 

Next week, on May 17th, Sony will announce their new Sony a37 and NEX-F3 cameras. You can find the detailed specs in this post. Images of the new cameras can be found here and here.

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Samsung to slowly abandon point and shoot cameras and concentrate on mirrorless

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2012

Samsung reminded us again that they want to become "the biggest mirrorless camera vendor by 2015 with a more than twenty-percent market share". In order to achieve that, the company will be slowly phasing out its point and shoot cameras production and concentrate entirely on mirrorless solutions: "low-end compact camera offerings will gradually be reduced, as we are now concentrating on the mirrorless segment" according to the WSJ.

Samsung recently announced three new mirrorless NX cameras and is planning to announce more mirrorless products during Photokina 2012.

Via The Verge

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Those are the new Leica products

By PR admin | Published: May 10, 2012

If you are not following LeicaRumors, this is what Leica announced today:

 

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The latest rebates from Olympus, Sony, Canon and Nikon

By PR admin | Published: May 9, 2012

Those are the latest rebates on photo equipment:

Olympus

Sony

Canon

Nikon

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New Olympus 12-120mm f/4-5.6 lens patent

By PR admin | Published: May 9, 2012

Olympus filed a patent in Japan for a 12-120mm f/4-5.6 lens with several different variations:

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SLR Magic to release new 25mm/35mm T0.95 lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX cameras

By PR admin | Published: May 9, 2012

SLR Magic plans to release a new 25mm T0.95 lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras and a new 35mm T0.95 lens for APS-C sized cameras (I assume for Sony NEX). The new lenses will be on the same quality level as the full frame SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm T0.95 lens, which looks and performs very similar to the $11,000 Leica Noctilux - see also the sample images in this post:

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New Lens/Focus shifter – lens mounted follow focus project on Kickstarter

By PR admin | Published: May 8, 2012

The Lens/Focus Shifter is a low budget 'follow focus' product which attaches to lenses with circumferences from 176mm to 308mm, or lenses like the 50mm f/1.8 to the larger zoom lenses. The great thing about this product is that it attaches to these lenses without the need of rails, with the simple attachment mechanism it simply slides onto any size lens, making it a very flexible, low priced and innovative product. Using this product will definitely improve focusing skills for photography and cinematography, as critical focus points can be pre-focused and marked with the marker pen to ensure the focus puller/camera operator reaches those critical focus points during filming or taking photos.
It's currently available for $45 on Kickstarter:

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