Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Via Nikon Watch:
Spoke to my regular principal Nikon dealer in London today. I was told that I need to call back on the afternoon of Thursday 24th when they’ll have the details *of the two new cameras*.
[tags]nikon, d3, d300, rumor, release, news, august 24th[/tags]
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This guy over at DPReview.com forums is in the know. He never says enough reveal too much, but always says enough to prove that he’s right. His latest post:
The new 40d is like a 1D mkIII lite…… that’s all I can Say…
Also:
Camera is of same built quality as 30d
This is the same guy that told us prior to PMA that there would be no 40D showing at it. Before the 1D Mk III announcement he said:
10mp 10fps 1.3 crop – it’s coming….
. . . he was dead on.
So, look for a 1D Mk III “lite” in the form of the Canon 40D on the store shelves soon.
[tags]canon, eos, 40d, inside, secret, info, news, rumors[/tags]
This is the latest floating around the web on the Nikon D3:
Yesterday, a Web site forum for a foreign netizens inadvertently disclosed the new Nikon digital SLR top D3 series of posters pictures.The posters on the backs of the camera clearly marked : the high-precision 51 points autofocus system! The nine per second shooting speed! Up to 920,000 pixels, covering a total area of 3.0-inch low-temperature polysilicon LCD screen!
Online leaked a new generation of digital SLR Nikon products posters
?? So it appears that Nikon is about to release a new product worth looking forward to.
(via Google Translation & original dpnet)
Can anyone help with a better translation? You can follow the latest Nikon D3 rumors here.
[tags]nikon, d3, d3x, d3h, rumors, news[/tags]
In case you didn’t notice, I’ve updated the site a bit. Let me know if you like it and if anything is broken. I checked the usual suspects, but you never can be too sure when you tinker with php. That said, let’s move on to some important topics:
If you haven’t been there in a while, check out the Sloan Photographers again . . . especially the latest from Karina and Jeff’s wedding.
The Canon 7D showed up in a user-created UPC database. I expect this is completely bogus, but I’ll keep an eye out. (via Ken Rockwell)
Strong words . . . . Never use manual settings on your camera.
The secret to cloning people.
Hack – Blogging photos with Lightroom and Flickr.
[tags]sloan photographers, canon, 7d, upc, manual settings, digital camera, dslr, cloning, photoshop, blog, blogging, lightroom, flickr[/tags]
Originally uploaded by Toni_V.
Shot with a Nikon D50 and GorillaPod SLR Zoom.
[tags]photo of the day, light stream, gorillapod, nikon, d50, VW[/tags]
Another image of the Canon 40D has surfaced. This time in the form of an ad bearing the caption “Coming this fall.” This is supposed to appear as an ad in Shutterbug soon. (via POTN forums)
Keep up to date on the Canon 40D here.
UPDATE 8/15/07: I emailed the editor of Shutterbug yesterday re: this ad. He says to regard it as bogus attribution and that “all our production team are women.” The significance in that factoid is that the original poster of the ad (on the POTN forums mentioned above) said that his “man” at Shutterbug emailed the image to him. . . . Your guess is as good as mine, but I thought I’d just pass along the info.
[tags]canon, eos, 40d, dslr, rumor, fall, news, release[/tags]
Check out the latest rumored specs from the Chasseur d’Images forum on the Sony Alpha A300 prosumer model:
. . . along with this little tidbit from the dyxum forums:
I already told you that my brother-in-law works for Sony on the Alpha project. Here is some more info, some is repeated from my previous posts. The advanced model will be 14.* MP and close to FF. It will have 1.25x factor and a switch for lenses with 1.5 factor. It will be called A300. Because of the pixel pattern similar to Sony ClearVid CMOS sensors, Sony will claim up to 2x effective pixel resolution. The flagship model will be called A500 and will be 100% full frame. Nikon is supplying Sony new steppers to create FF sensors in one shot. Sony first joined forces with Konica Minolta, now with Nikon. This gives to both Sony and Nikon advantage over Canon, which Sony believes will eventually drop to a 3rd place; Sony will move up to 2nd place in overall volume of DSLR’s sales. The least expensive Sony DSLR will not have optical viewfinder and will be called A50. The flagship model will be 20 MP, 40 effective. That is the reason why Sony concentrates on top quality glass. Sony’s advantage will be fact that they are the foremost sensor maker; their output is several times higher than Matsushita, which is second largest CCD maker.”
The 2 DSLR prototypes that were shown at different shows by Sony were no wooden mock ups, but the actual cameras that will be produced. The same goes for the lenses. All these were pretty much final prototypes, but Sony could not disclose this due to its competition. The main thing that is holding these projects up is development of SSS which has to work harder with larger sensors; the insides of the cameras may be a little different than on the prototypes shown, not the outsides. That was finalized before showing them to the public.
“Sony was originally going to buy the Contax brand from Kyocera, but then used this infomation in its negotiations with KM, from whom they managed to get the DSLR division with all its expertise for pennies on the dollar. KM really wanted the DSLR division to be in the best hands; they cared about it more than about anything else; the Minolta portion of the KM team wanted to see the legacy of the system to continue and to improve as much as possible. The decision to sell to Sony was rather emotional.
[tags]sony, alpha, a200, a300, a400, a500, rumor, news, specs[/tags]
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[tags]canon, lens, date, photoshop, graffiti, photo, photography, iphoto, imac, reverse lens, macro, olympus, e-510, landscape, tips, tutorial, zombie, movie, effects[/tags]
