Archive for the ‘Misc. cameras’ category

First Leica S2 rolled out

December 12th, 2009

According to Leica, the first Leica S2 are delivered to customers. The first one went to Jim Rakete, a renowned photographer  in Berlin.

Leica M9

September 9th, 2009

Leica has announced the M9, a full frame rangefinder camera. It features a 24x36mm 18 Megapixel sensor developed by Kodak. With this sensor every Leica M-mount lens provides the originally intended field of view. Also new: an UV/IR cover-glass filter which means no need for lens filters, one stop improvement in noise.

Nikon S1000pj – the worlds first projector camera

August 4th, 2009

Nikon has announced the worlds first projector camera, the Nikon S1000pj. A groundbreaking feature for a compact camera that will deliver the ultimate fun!
The small camera projects images up to 40 inches in size with a VGA resolution and at a maximum distance of 2 meters. But see yourself and watch the promo video from Nikon:




All detailled infos at http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/coolpix/s1000pj/index.htm or at the micro site http://www.nikon-coolpix.com/en/?cid=IGD98BGZIG0

Pentax K-7

May 21st, 2009

Dpreview has published a first preview of the new Pentax K-7

Fastest camera of the world: 6 million fps

May 2nd, 2009

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) made a camera that can shoot up to 6.1 million pictures per second – that’s a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. This currently comes at the price of a resolution of just 3000 pixels. Read the full story at Wired.