Price of expected Sigma SD15 DSLR camera revealed

A Scandinavian online store has the Sigma SD15 DSLR listed for a price of 9695 SEK (around $1400):

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OLED/AMOLED screens coming to a camera near you

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.

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Samsung shows off 800 x 600 AMOLED display (source: ddaily.co.kr)

Some of the OLED screen advantages are:

  • Very thin and lighter weight
  • Greatly minimized propensity for breakage
  • Lower-power, highly rugged with superior image quality, and low cost compared to the current LCD displays
  • Due to their inherent ruggedness, allow a unique form factor of conformability and rollability during use, transportation and storage.
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Samyang to continue releasing new, fast lenses

Samyang is going to announce several new lenses in Q1 2010: two version of 35 mm for FF with max aperture f/1.4 for Nikon, Pentax, Sony and maybe Olympus 4/3. The second version with max aperture of f/1.2 will be only for Canon. Canon bayonet has a bigger diameter which will make this possible. It is expected those lenses to be with an ED element and at least one aspherical lens.

Here is the current offering from Samyang on Amazon and their prices.

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Just for fun (Sony Alpha 1000 fakery)

Full sensor camcorder from Sony: Alpha 1000 coming in 2011. Yes it is fake, but something to think about.

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Sony Alpha A1R

I don’t know the credibility of this rumor (the whole pdf file can be downloaded here – why is the image not available?):

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Falcon 14 mm f/2.8 ED Asph IF sample shots

This is the same lens ad the just announced Samyang 14mm f2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical lens. Here are the sample shots.

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Interview with Sony’s CMOS Exmor R sensor developers

sony-exmor-r-sensorUpdate: hit the comments section for a better translation.

This is the Google translation of the interview. The interesting part:

Q: As many users are interested, I would have to be equipped with a digital SLR camera. 2 the idea of sensitivity so you can take pictures which is twice less noise, I would simply think, including me, what are not going so easily.

A: Yes, because this type 1/2.4 small pixel size has been achieved the sensitivity of two-fold. Digital SLR camera I have I was much more pixel size. It is easy to collect the light from that case, two times the sensitivity of a sudden you’re not.

Mu understand of the last sentence is that the Exmor R sensor will not be so efficient in a DSLR. Anybody got a better translation?

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The next camera from Pentax will be…

…the Pentax 645D:

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This is according to Pentax’s President of US Operations Ned Bunnell. Expected release date: early 2010.

I guess the Pentax K2Ds rumor is now busted.

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Olympus event on October 31, 2009 (part 2)

This is the actual image sent out from Olympus (according to my source) for the October 31, 2009 event I mentioned yesterday:

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What is the black leather remind you of? I say Olympus EP-2 at the end of October.

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New SanDisk cards

Few days ago SanDisk announced the latest Extreme Pro series CF cards and now they are available for pre-order from Adorama with free shipping:

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Chase Jarvis was responsible for the ad campaign:

Full press release after the break:

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