Olympus unveils the Pen E-P5. After announcing its little brothers in the digital mirrorless cameras range, Olympus today unveils a serious, very serous, mirrorless camera that gets a lot of DSLRs. With the Pen E-P5, Olympus advances the high-end of the PEN family to tickle the OM-D supposedly higher. The Pen E-P5 brings many progresses [...]
Panasonic updated today its advanced mirrorless camera in MFT mount, the Lumix DMC-GF6 replaces the DMC-G5. It brings some changes starting with a more powerful processor of the lastes generation that will be responsible for improving the noise reduction of the 16-megapixel Live MOS sensor. The autofocus has been boosted to be more efficient in [...]
Pentax Ricoh announced a new compact digital APS-C sensor camera : the Ricoh GR. It receives an APS-C CMOS sensor (16-megapixel), a fixed lens of 28mm equivalent and pretty fast ( f/2.8) and the new GR Engine V image processor. Here is a new player in the segment of compact cameras equipped with an SLR [...]
Just one year after its announcement, it was in April 2012, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5 is replaced by the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6 which brings some improvements in terms of the already very convincing autofocus of its predecessor and image quality with the adoption of a new 16-megapixel sensor. The Panasonic mirrorless camera accesses WiFi and [...]
The least one can say is that this camera was highly anticipated. After the successful Fujifilm X100 and other large sensor digital compact cameras like the Leica X1 / X2, or the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1, I was expecting anxiously that Nikon would unveil its vision of a premium marge sensor compact camera. And it is [...]
The electronic viewfinder DSLR Sony SLT-A58 does not replace the SLT-A57 in Sony’s digital SLR range. The new Sony SLT-A58 is based on the new APS-C CMOS sensor of 20.1 megapixels. Its sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 to 16,000 and it gets a sensor shift image stabilization. The camera itself offers the image stabilization which [...]
The Sony NEX-3N is a new mirrorless camera that complements the range of Sony interchangeable lens cameras in APS-C size sensors. It will be sold alongside the NEX-5R and NEX-5N, NEX-6 (which I am publishing the review of within a few days/hours) and NEX-7, the prosumer mirrorless camera. The NEX-3N sensor is a well-known unit [...]
Samsung today unveils a new smartcamera based on the Galaxy Camera but wthout its 3G connectivity : the Samsung Galaxy Camera Wi-Fi. It is also a 21x compact camera with a CMOS BSI sensor of 16MP / 1080p video recording. It inherits of the huge multitouch screen (OLED !!!) of its bigger brother 3G. The [...]
Pentax has renewed their waterproof digital compact line at the occasion of the opening ceremonies of the Japanese photo salon CP+ with a trio of cameras. The first two being The WG-3 and WG-3 GPS waterproof to 14m (46 ft.+/-) and equipped with a backlit CMOS sensor. The third is a more affordable variant in [...]
Here it is finally ! The long awaited successor of the famous Fujifilm X100 comes to reality. While one might have expected a Fuji X200, Fujifilm is actually unveiling the new X100S which is taking over the premium compact digital camera that made Fuji glorious again ! With a 23mm fast prime lens and an [...]
Fujifilm is refining the concept of “DESLR-like” bridge camera and unveil today the FinePix HS50EXR, a bridge camera featuring an impressive 42x zoom lens which makes a giant leap in seconds between 24 mm and 1000 mm. Fujifilm also equiped the new travel camera with the company’s new “Intelligent” hybrid autofocus system which takes advantage [...]
Here is the new waterproof compact camera of Fujifilm’s range : the FinePix XP60. This year, Fujifilm has focused on shooting speed and Full HD video performance of its tough camera. XP60 resistance The Fujifilm FinePix XP60 is waterproof till 6 m deep. The designers of this compact waterproof camera have also endowed the [...]
Panasonic’s 2013 waterproof digital camera, the new Lumix DMC-FT5 follows the lead set by the TZ40 in replacing the TZ30: boosting connectivity with new Wi-Fi and NFC technologies. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT5: a tough player The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT5 is quite a rugged device. Panasonic is announcing it can dive 12 meters under water, [...]
Canon unveils today the Ixus 140, an ultra-compact camera in a beautifully designed body. It features a stabilized 8x optical zoom and Wi-Fi connectivity for wireless photo and video sharing. Connect it to a smartphone and you can even share on the go. In this CES 2013, along with the Ixus 140, Canon announced the [...]
Casio has unveiled the Exilim EX-ZR1000, an advanced compact camera that gets about everything a high-end pocket ultrazoom camera can dream of. Sometimes, Casio surprise us with a top camera, innovation, cutting-edge features, but these R&D efforts are often spoiled by their poor marketing. It is quite near to the Casio Exilim EX-ZR300 announced last [...]
It is now Panasonic’s turn to unveil its new camera for the Photokina 2012 opening day (well the press day). And, as I was expected, they decided to refresh the antique mirrorless camera aimed towards videographers, the GH2 which will be replaced by the GH3. It can be considered as a prosumer mirrroless camera. It has [...]
Here we are. We finally have THE forts real smartcamera and no folks, it is not Apple that pulled the trigger first, but Samsung that has learnt both the camera manufacturing and telecommunications know-how. The Galaxy Camera can be summed up as a WB850F camera fused with a Galaxy S III smartphone. From the WB850 [...]
As the IFA 2012 opens today, Sony unveils its forst Wi-Fi mirrorless camera based on the NEX-5N launched last year. Meet the Sony NEX-5R. I told you so, you have been warned, you were expecting that anxiously : this is the Wi-Fi cameras / smartcameras season ! Sony comes today with a Wi-Fi camera, the [...]
The Canon Powershot SX500 IS is the smallest 30x zoom camera today on the market. With a 24-720mm lens packed in a pretty compact form factor, yet almost as big as a bridge camera with no viewfinder, it is a nice travel camera although I would advise to get a 20x camera instead and to [...]
Announced in Japan last spring, the Casio EXILIM compact cameras flag ship, the ZR-300, is coming over to Europe. This 12.5x compact camera features a 24-300mm zoom lens. Less powerful (on paper) than the 20x lens 25-500mm equivalent of the Fujifilm Finepix F770 EXR (with GPS) or F800 EXR(with Wi-Fi) or the Sony HX20V, the [...]
