After adding PentaxRumors.com as a way to filter to all Pentax related rumors, I received multiple requests to do the same with all Sony related rumors.
As of today you can also filter to all Sony rumors by using the SonyRumours.com domain name (sorry this is the British spelling or rumour, the other domain was not available).
According to this dpreview post, Canon will raise their prices by 10% on October 1st, 2009. The original source was a “large photo supply shop in the NY/NJ/CT area”.
The Canon Rebel 1500D/T1 will be announced very soon – intended for sale during the Christmas season. The key specs:
It is rumored that the camera is in the final testing stage and may have been sent out to reviewers/testers already.
This new camera will replace the current Canon 1000D model.
I keep receiving detailed Sony specifications on rumored future products. This time we have a new flash unit HVL-F64AM:
Full page view after the break:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 was officially released today and is available on Amazon. As previously reported it will be available on October 22nd.
Press release after the break:
Amazon announced on their website that Adobe Photoshop Elements 8/9 (Win/Mac) will be released on October 22, 2009. The site is already removed, but here are the details:
Key benefits of Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements 8 Resize your pictures at your leisure, without any distortion – you want to change the size or orientation of a cliche? No problem: resizing – if the change from a landscape to portrait format and vice versa – do not distort the key elements such as people and buildings.
Get the best possible exposure – you want to restore every detail of a scene including light and dark areas? Take a picture with the flash and one without flash; Exhibition Photomerge option then produce a single shot perfectly lit.
Easily find your best photos – No need to travel tens or hundreds of photographs to find the most successful. The automatic scanning feature films and tag photos so you can easily find the most successful.
Instantly find some people in photographs – Easily find photos of your family with the function of recognition of people.
Get a clear picture – perfect view your photos and video clips in the Organizer with new previews in Full Screen mode, which also allow editing of images.
Add a youthful touch to your creations – Add a touch of novelty and freshness to your creations with printed patterns and unpublished illustrations.
For all Pentax fans – from now on you can use the www.PentaxRumors.com domain name to cut the crap and go directly to the latest Pentax rumors.
You can of course use the categories/tags on the right to filter the rumors you are interested in.
The rumored Samsung NX3 camera will not be be the first camera with an AMOLED display (there is no substantial difference between OLED & AMOLED – Active Matrix is just a way of controlling individual pixels). OLED screens are already available on several models (as production costs are dropping): Nikon just released a p&s camera with a touchscreen OLED display: the Nikon S70. The first camera with an OLED screen was the Samsung TL320. It is interesting that such improvement were first introduced in the lower level products instead of pro-models. Samsung is considered to be the OLED leader in the industry. Here is a comparison between AMOLED and TFT screens:
Outside the camera world several cell phones and the next Zune HD are expected to have OLED screens.
Samsung shows off 800 x 600 AMOLED display (source: ddaily.co.kr)
Some of the OLED screen advantages are:
