New product: ThinkTank Hydrophobia 70-200 water resistant cover

Photography news, before they happen: Think Tank Photo will release a new product at the end of January, 2010 – the seam-sealed, water-resistant “Hydrophobia 70-200” cover for DSLR with up to a 70-200 f/2.8 lens attached. Here are two quick shots of the product (I will have more details tomorrow):

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 side view

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 top view

Think Tank Hydrophobia 70-200 top view

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Sigma SD15 DSLR to be released in February 2010

image source: engadget

The rumor is that the Sigma SD15 DSLR will be released in the second half of February 2010.

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Ricoh’s attempt at a limited edition camera (GR Digital III x Stussy)

Ricoh announced a “Stussy” limited edition version of itsย GR Digital III camera model created with US fashion brand manufacturer Stussy (hit that link for more pictures):

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GR DIGITAL III x Stussy

Not a fan of limited edition cameras (nobody can do limited edition cameras better than Leica), but in this case I do like the GR DIGITAL III x Stussy because it’s matches the design colors of PhotoRumors.com ๐Ÿ™‚

The Ricoh GR Digital III x Stussy will be available in February, 2010. Price is unknown at that point.

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B&H lists the MIA Sigma SD15 DSLR as “New item – No arrival date known”

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B&H Photo listed the Sigma SD15 DSLR as “New item – No arrival date known”.

This camera has been delayed multiple times (officially announced at Photokina 2008). I guess Leica is not the only one that has product release delays.

Full list of specs and features after the break:

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Samsung NX10 still on center stage (specs, 30 fps burst video sample)

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Samsung NX10/Olympus E-410 size comparison

Samsung NX10 specs (Korean text translated by a reader – thanks P.):

์ดˆ๋‹น 30์žฅ ์—ฐ์‚ฌ์ง€์›์— (ํ’€ ์‚ฌ์ด์ฆˆ๋Š” ์•„๋‹Œ ๋“ฏ;;)
Supports 30FPS bursts (probably not full sized pictures)

720p ๋™์˜์ƒ ์ง€์›
720p video support

369g ๋ฐ”๋””๋ฌด๊ฒŒ
369g body weight

1.5 ํฌ๋ž
1.5 crop

3์ธ์น˜ ์•„๋ชฐ๋ ˆ๋“œ ์•ก์ • 92๋งŒํ™”์†Œ
3 inch AMOLED screen 920,000 pixels

11๊ฐœ ์ธก๊ฑฐ์ 
11 point autofocus

์‹œ์•ผ์œจ 100% 92๋งŒํ™”์†Œ ์ „์ž์‹ ๋ทฐํŒŒ์ธ๋”
100% viewfinder, 920,000 pixel electronic viewfinder

0.2์ดˆ์˜ af ์†๋„ (์˜ฌ๋ฆผ pen 0.6 ํŒŒ๋‚˜ gf 0.3)
0.2 second AF speed (Olympus 0.6 Panasonic 0.3)

ISO 100~3200

12๊ฐ€์ง€ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋“œ (์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๋ชจ๋“œ)
12 scene modes (smart mode)

9๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๋ชจ๋“œ (์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ํ•„ํ„ฐ)
9 color modes (Smart filter)

์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ธ์ง€ (dr)
Smart range (DR)

์ €๊ด‘๋Ÿ‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ af ๋ณด์กฐ๊ด‘๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ œ ์น ๋œจ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์žก๋Š”๋“ฏ…;;;
AF-assist lamp in low light and faster AF acquisition than 7D

30mm 2.0 ํŒฌ์ผ€์ต ๋ Œ์ฆˆ…
30mm 2.0 pancake lens

NX 30fps burst mode:ย 60-frame animated GIF sample created with the 30fps burst mode of the Samsung NX10.

See previous rumored Samsung NX10 specs here.

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Samsung NX10 is everywhere

Pictures of Samsung NX10 are everywhere. The official release is expected to be on or around January 12th, 2010:

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The above pictures are fromย dpreview.ย Some more Samsung NX lenses on slrclub – 18-55mm and the 30mm pancake:

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Samsung 30mm f/2.0 pancake lens pictures leaked

This rumor initially started on dpreview two days ago and now the first pictures of the Samsung 30mm f/2.0 pancake lens surfaced online @ Pentaxforums (pictures were taken with Samsung NX10 + 18-55mm zoom lens – click on image for larger view):

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Sony envisions 3D “personal imaging”

Sony included their digital cameras (“personal imaging”) as a “creation” device for 3D technology:

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Sony have already announced High Frame Rate Single Lens 3D Camera Technology.

Via Engadget

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Sony and Panasonic patents

Let’s start with Sony – patentย application 20090303371 is for a new Sony CMOS sensor based on the Foveon approach – each pixel capture RG&B:

“Accordingly, in order to utilize the incident light amount efficiently as well as to prevent occurrence of false colors, a method of separating colors by forming plural photodiodes in a pixel in the depth direction of a substrate has been developed.”

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Sony is definitely pushing hard in sensor design – as a reference they have ~50 applications in “solid state imaging device” so far this year.

There is a new Panasonic patent application, which has a detailed drawings of a new camera that looks like a Four Thirds DSLR. Brief summary of the main features:

“Live-View, Optical Viewfinder, mirror and prism, of course interchangeable FourThirds lens mount, CMOS sensor, supersonic vibration generator, No Video recording, No in bodyย stabilization.”

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More patent details:

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Samsung ST5500

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Samsung ST5500 manual was spotted at FCC.

  • 14.2MPย resolution
  • 7x optical zoom
  • WiFi
  • 3.5 inch LCD touch screen.
  • 100 MB of on board memory
  • supports microSD memory cards
  • can take videos up to 1280ร—720 at 30 FPS
  • ISO range: 80 to 3200
  • max shutter speed: 1/2000
  • allows to send photos and videos via email, or post photos and video to a website like YouTube
  • supports 802.11 b/g.
  • HDMI output

And Nikon just filed a patent for a camera with a built in email client…

Source:ย Wirelessgoodness via Engadget

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