Photo Rumors

Polaroid back to life in 2010

By PR admin | Published: October 13, 2009

The new owners of Polaroid (Petters) decided to bring back to life the Polaroid instant camera in 2010.

Press release after the break:

Is that the new mirrorless, interchangeable camera system from Sony?

By PR admin | Published: October 11, 2009

Few weeks ago Sony mentioned that they are interested in a mirrorless, interchangeable camera system and now I have this in my hands:

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I am just confused by all those pdf type Sony rumors. I went through many different camera models and could not find one that looks like the camera pictured above. Thoughts?

Posted in Sony| Tagged Sony DSC-RX, Sony mirrorless camera| 28 Comments

Leaf to announce a new, entry level Aptus digital back

By PR admin | Published: October 11, 2009

image source: BJP

In an interview with BJP, the CEO of Leaf Dov Kalinski said:

“We’ll be announcing shortly the release of the Aptus 5, an entry-level product. We see a need for entry-level products with aggressive pricing to respond to the changes that are happening in the market.”

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Sneak peek into the Photoshop labs

By PR admin | Published: October 9, 2009

Posted in Adobe| 8 Comments

New Olympus m4/3 camera to be presented on the ZOOM.experience 2009 show?

By PR admin | Published: October 8, 2009

According to this dpreview thread Olympus has send “mailshots” about their presence on the ZOOM.experience 2009 show that will start on October 31, 2009. Why is this news interesting? Remember this teaser?

Olympus EP2 is coming folks!

Posted in Olympus| Tagged Olympus EP-2| 6 Comments

Samyang 14 mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical lens delayed untill early 2010

By PR admin | Published: October 8, 2009

Samyang Optics confirmed the delay in production of the new 14mm f/2.8 IF ED MC aspherical wide angle lens until the fist quarter of 2010. This decision was taken in order to improve the lens.

Source

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Is Pentax for sale?

By PR admin | Published: October 7, 2009

In the previous interview (two months ago), Hoya’s CEO Hiroshi Suzuki said:

“I’m afraid it will need some sort of alliance with another company in the long term.”

Yesterday, in an interview with nikkeibp Mr. Suzuki said:

“It’s unnecessary to keep Pentax camera division in the HOYA Corporation. It may be sold to other company or become a independent company itself”.

Posted in Pentax| 33 Comments

Samyang 14mm f/2.8 availability and full review

By PR admin | Published: October 6, 2009

The Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens (mentioned before here) is now available for pre-order on eBay for $424.99 (different mounts are available). The lens will be available from the third week of November.

Today LensTip published the full review of this lens.

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Sigma DP1s released

By PR admin | Published: October 2, 2009

Update: expected price for Europe will be 499.00 Euros.

Image source: Sigma

Another camera goes off the rumor list (previously reported here): Sigma released the DP1s today which contains only minor improvements from the previous model: