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A Nikon image sensor in the next Google smartphone Nexus 5

Mar 20, 2013 No Comments by

Google up big on the photo quality of its next smartphone. While speculations is rife about the next Google smartphone, the Nexus 5, I spotted today on PhoneArena that its image sensor could be a sensor under Nikon brand … Phonearena.com undermines recent speculations that the Google Nexus 5 would come out with a new [...]

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Sony NEX-3N photo shows a power zoom lever

Feb 08, 2013 Comments Off by

Another stolen leaked on the net. Looks like the manufacturers have trouble keeping their secrets safe… This time, it’s the next  Sony mirrorless camera that the rumor site sony alpharumors published a photo of. They also say that this new camera is expected to hit the market within the next two months, concomitantly with the [...]

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Panasonic should launch a portrait lens for MFT : 42.5mm F1.2

Feb 06, 2013 Comments Off by

Panasonic took advantage of the CP+ 2013 photo show in Japan to present its new MFT lens roadmap for mirrorless Lumix G cameras. This roadmap already appeared during the Photokina 1012 and has been updated this time with the addition of a lens that I find quite interesting and which should attract more than one [...]

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Polaroid CEO confirms an Android based camera at CES 2013

Dec 21, 2012 No Comments by

It is the CEO of Polaroid itself who confirmed they will unveil at the coming CES 2013 an Android based camera. Previous leaks tend to prove it will be a mirrorless Polaroid camera. Like Nikon and its Coolpix S800c, like Samsung and its Galaxy Camera, Polaroid announced they will unveil at the CES 2013 a [...]

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Nikon patent for a digital film camera back

Dec 20, 2012 No Comments by

It is the appearance of a patent filed by Nikon on the Internet that revives the hope of one day seeing a digital back on an analog SLR being adapted. The Japanese engineering accomplishment blog has spotted a patent with diagrams describing a mechanism that allows photographers to mount and adjust a digital sensor on [...]

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Fujifilm X100 successor should get a X-Trans sensor (X200-X100S)

Dec 20, 2012 No Comments by

And what if the replacement of the Fujifilm X100 (which would certainly be the X200) would get a X-Trans sensor, a sensor optimized to allow the absence of optical low-pass filter and organized with a color complex matrix, more efficient than the basic Bayer pattern to fight against any moiré ? You sign on, right [...]

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A Nikon D5200 on its way with a 24MP sensor ?

Oct 30, 2012 No Comments by

Nikonrumors promised us a total of 5 news Nikon DSLR in 2012 and according to the leaks gathering website,  the next cameras to be announced by Nikon should be DX mount DSLRs. So the next announcement should be the Nikon D5200, a camera based on the D3200 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor, powered by the latest [...]

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Canonrumors foresees a huge megapixel count Canon DSLR this month : EOS -1S / EOS 3D

Oct 08, 2012 1 Comment by

Canon is thinking big with their yet-to-be-announced professional DSLR that is anticipated as the EOS-1DS or EOS 3D as previously forecast. Canonrumors write that the new EOS-1S / EOS 3D could be sold for $9,000 which erradicate the camera from the Nikon D800 competitors list (Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Sony SLT-A99). It is still [...]

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Nikon 1 : the J2 on its way, a possible compact standard zoom lens

Aug 01, 2012 Comments Off by

We are now entering the new camera announcement time which will be important this year, a Photokina year. nikonrumors has information of a logical new Nikon 1 J2, successor to the Nikon J1 unveiled one year ago. It looks like the advanced model, the Nikon V1, won’t get a successor this fall. A Wi-Fi compatibility [...]

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Some images of the Pentax K-3, full frame DSLR expected for the Photokina 2012

Jun 19, 2012 Comments Off by

A Pentax Full Frame DSLR, that is something Pentax fans have been waiting for ages. Here and there, we often hearthat they are about to launch it. Now, the rumor gets insistent and pentaxforum comes with images of what should be the Pentax K-3, a full frame DSLR that could be unveiled at the Photokina [...]

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Nikon D600 : a probable affordable Full Frame DSLR? UPDATED

May 14, 2012 Comments Off by

It is now becoming a more and more reliable-to-end-up-true rumor : Nikon would prepare the launch of an affordable Full Frame DSLR, the D600. It would be cheaper than the Nikon D800 (which is a high definition baby D4), maybe half the price of the D800, could be as low as $1,500, Nikon Rumors wrote. [...]

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Canon T4i DSLR coming this spring ?

Apr 11, 2012 No Comments by

Could the new Canon DSLR Rebel T4i be on its way ? That is what canonrumors tends to say as a large camera retailer in the US has listed the T3i (EOS 600D) as “discontinued”. This is a bit of a surprise to me as the T3i was launched only last year and the T2i [...]

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Nikon users : would you buy the AF-S Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED DX VR lens ?

Mar 28, 2012 No Comments

I would ! Spring 2012 seems to be the camera rumors spring ! A few days ago appeared the Panasonic GF5 and the Samsung NX20. Now comes the time of a brand we have been talking AF-S Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED DX VR. This lens, once mounted on a DX Nikon camera like the D700 or D5100, [...]

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Sony 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 lens leaked on Sony Europe website

Mar 20, 2012 No Comments

Once in a while, I think to the webmaster that incidentally published a web pages of a product that has not yet been unveiled, officially I mean, by the manufacturer. Quite often, we know that these self-leaks are organized by the manufacturer itself. Canon, Nikon, Sony and Panasonic have already used that in the past while officially fighting hard [...]

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Samsung NX20 spotted

Mar 19, 2012 No Comments

Dutsch photography magazine’s website (Focus) comes today with leaked images of the next mirrorless in Samsung’s digital camera range, the NX20, successor to the nX10/NX11. This new camera, still unofficial, should receive the 20.3-megapixel CMOS sensor I liked in the nX200 when I reviewed it in december. Still according to Focus, the Samsung NX20 ISO [...]

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Leaked images of the Panasonic GF5

Mar 19, 2012 No Comments

The leaked images of the Panasonic GF5 look quite real and I would bet the GF5 is in the pipes. We recognize the GF3 filiation with a better looking body as 43rumors said. They have been warned of these images by a mysterious asian source of the site nphoto.net which also says that the Lumix GF5 [...]

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Nikon D800 : Chasseur d'Images breaks the news and stops rumors

Feb 03, 2012 1 Comment

Nikon has invited a bunch of journalists worldwide to a press event on Febr 7th. A press event widely relayed by leaks on rumors websites. Everybody expects that day to be the release date of the delayed D800 we almost got to announce in September. Nikon rcently came up with new new NDA rules (a [...]

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Canon 4K RAW video recording on its way

Jan 27, 2012 No Comments

EOSHD has all the details of a patent from Canon regarding a future RAW video codec. This proprietary RAW video codec, for 2K and 4K resolution, appears as published today but regards a patent that had been filled in 2010. This RAW video patent describe how 4096×2048 images in 12-bit and at a rate of [...]

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Nikon D3200 : Amazon France and "For Dummies" take preorders

Jan 25, 2012 No Comments

Leaks come from a wide variety of sources. It can be a corporate leak, on purpose or not, like the Nikon D800 leak last week on nikon.de website. It can also come from a magazine, like last month leak of the nikon D4 and Fujifilm X-Pro1. It actually was the French photography magazine Réponses Photo [...]

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Fujifilm X-S1 technical specifications

Oct 11, 2011 No Comments

Seen in Japan last week, the superbridge camera by Fujifilm, the X-S1 (yes, a new X-series camera) now has a few official specs. Fujifilm France today confirmed the followings to me : “a weather proof high-end bridge camera designed to compete with SLRs : – 12 megapixels 2/3″ EXR-CMOS sensor – Manual zoom lens, 26x, [...]

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