Olympus EP-2: released before the end of the year, with a viewfinder

By PR admin | Published: August 3, 2009

Chasseur d’Images magazine wrote in its latest issue (#316) that an Olympus spokesman revealed that Olympus EP-2 was in the works and was going to be released before the end of the year and it will have a viewfinder. The same issue also covered the full frame Leica M9 and the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj.

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Pentax K20D discontinued

By PR admin | Published: August 2, 2009

Pentax K20D is now officially discontinued. See the official Pentax Japan website.

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Sony A850 will be full frame

By PR admin | Published: August 1, 2009

Sony A850 keeps leaking. After the appearance on Sony’s product registration page, the Sony A850 DSLR manual popped up on Hong Kong support site. Here are the scans – click on image for larger view (full PDF file available here):

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Via Engadget

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Olympus E-600 to be released

By PR admin | Published: July 31, 2009

Every electric product in Korea needs to acquire approval of RRA before it is released. Well if this screenshot is real, we should soon see the Olympus E-600:

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Rumor: Panasonic LX3 discontinued

By PR admin | Published: July 31, 2009

I received a rumor that the current Panasonic LX3 model is being discontinued. This is hard for me to believe, since this camera is a very good seller and is hard to get, but maybe a new model is in the making.

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Samsung NX10 lenses rumor

By PR admin | Published: July 28, 2009

Some details surfaced about the three lenses for the Samsung NX10 that were shown on that misterious trade show in Korea:

  • Standard Zoom: 18-55mm
  • Telephoto Zoom: 50-200mm
  • Prime Lens (Pancake): either 30mm f2.0 or 35mm f2.0

According to the source, the Samsung NX10 camera is expected to have AF performance similar to an entry level DSLR. The new expected release date is September – possibly on f the IFA show in Berlin (September 4-9, 2009).

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New Panasonic cameras announced: FZ35, FP8 and ZR1

By PR admin | Published: July 27, 2009

As expected, Panasonic reveled three new consumer cameras today:

No LX4 for now.

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Ricoh GR Digital III: now a reality

By PR admin | Published: July 26, 2009

The Ricoh GR Digital III rumors were true (still no word on Ricoh’s official site):

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  • Price: £530
  • New 10-million-pixel CCD imaging sensor
  • External TTL flash unit (GF-1) expected
  • 21mm wide conversion lens (GW-2) also expected
  • 5fps
  • Improved macro image quality (closest focusing is 1cm)
  • 3in LCD screen with a resolution of 920,000 dots
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Panasonic’s new Micro Four Thirds camera to be released in September

By PR admin | Published: July 23, 2009

“In an interview with Photobusiness.fr, a French online magazine, Luc Saint Elie (manager of new technologies at Panasonic France) hints that the next Panasonic MicroFourThirds cameras could be unveiled in September. He adds that the ‘platform’ could allow manufacturers to come up with radical design such as a spherical camera.”

Via 1854

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Ricoh GR Digital III

By PR admin | Published: July 21, 2009

The buzz around the long waited Ricoh GR Digital III is also starting to pick up. The picture below surfaced recently and it shows the new lens: 6.0mm 1:1.9 (compared to current 5.9mm 1:2.4), the body looks identical to the GRD2:

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Another picture after the break…

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