Pentax finally unveils it’s first medium format camera: the 645 D is a 40 MP medium format DSLR featuring a 44 x 33 CCD sensor. It is compatible with the existing 645 system lenses but Pentax also releases a new 55mm F2.8 lens. Suggested retail price of the cam is US$ 9,500, available May 2010.
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Pentax presents 40MP 645D medium format DSLR
March 10th, 2010News from Sigma at the PMA
February 21st, 2010Sigma has a whole lot of news at the PMA:
- Reintroducing the SD15 Foveon camera (showcased first in 2008!) featuring a 14MP Foveon X3 sensor, a 3.0″ 460k dot LCD, ISO 50-3200, 21 shot raw buffer at 3fps and 5 frame auto bracketing for HDR
- The new DP2s compact camera, a revised version of it’s DP2 featuring a 14MP FOVEON X3 sensor
- DP1x compact camera, a revised version of the DP1 large-sensor compact camera
- A new ultrawide zoom: Sigma 8-16/4.5-5.6 DC
- New Sigma 17-50/2.8 EX DC OS HSM
- New Sigma 85/1.4 EX DG HSM – a very interesting lens for all portrait shooters (and quite interesting for Nikonians as Nikons 85mm 1.4 lens is quite old)
- A stabilized version of the APO 70-200/2.8 EX DG OS HSM telezoom with promising specs: Sigma’s newly-developed FLD glass to reduce aberrations, 9-blade circular aperture, manual focus override.
- A stabilized version of the 50-500 ultra telezoom
The day of the Superzooms
February 2nd, 2010Fujifilm is announcing FinePix HS10 featuring a 30x optical zoom (24-720mm!) and Olympus is introducing the superzoom models SP-800UZ and SP-600UZ with 30x and 15x zoom lenses. All cameras feature HD video recording but the HS10 also features high speed movie recording at 1000 fps.
Don’t be surprised when you can’t expect too much optical quality from a Superzoom lens
Samsung NX10
January 4th, 2010Samsung has launched the NX10, a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. It features
- a 14.6 MP APS-C sized CMOS sensor
- 720p video with H.264 compression
- eye level electronic viewfinder
- 3″ OLED screen
Additionally Samsung now has a new 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 kit lens, a 55-200mm telezoom and a 30mm F2 pancake lens. It will be interesting to see reports how the camera is recognized in the photographic world…
First Leica S2 rolled out
December 12th, 2009According to Leica, the first Leica S2 are delivered to customers. The first one went to Jim Rakete, a renowned photographer in Berlin.
