Photo Rumors

Sony flash HVL-F64AM specification sheet

By PR admin | Published: September 23, 2009

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 released

By PR admin | Published: September 23, 2009

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:

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8/9 to be released on October 22

By PR admin | Published: September 22, 2009

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a youthful touch to your creations – Add a touch of novelty and freshness to your creations with printed patterns and unpublished illustrations.

Source

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PentaxRumors.com

By PR admin | Published: September 21, 2009

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.

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Price of expected Sigma SD15 DSLR camera revealed

By PR admin | Published: September 21, 2009

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

By PR admin | Published: September 21, 2009

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:

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

By PR admin | Published: September 21, 2009

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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