Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
As noted yesterday, the Pentax Q10 mirrorless camera is expected to be officially unveiled prior to Photokina 2012. Now, we have specs for the upcoming Pentax Q successor, which will sport a new 12.4MP backside-illuminated CMOS sensor and 1080p HD video capture.
More specs below. [Read more…]
Pentax’s next mirrorless camera, the Q10, has surfaced online with plenty of images from all angles of the new camera. The Pentax Q mirrorless camera system is basically a compact-camera with interchangeable lenses. For whatever reasons, Pentax chose to keep the sensor in the tiny, compact camera format and build a system around that. [Read more…]
Zeiss has announced its new 55mm f/1.4 Distagon T* lens for Canon and Nikon mounts. The new lens is first model of a new product family from Zeiss. [Read more…]
The Fuji X-E1 is the new X-mount camera that follows the popular X-Pro1 mirrorless camera.
Like the X-Pro1, the new X-E1 sports a 16.3MP APS-C image sensor and a mirrorless design. However, the new X-E1 is 30% smaller that the X-Pro1. [Read more…]
Here’s yet another leaked image of the upcoming Sony NEX-6. Note the electronic viewfinder that can be seen on the back left corner of the camera. Some readers had asked about it in prior posts.
The Sony NEX-6 is due to be announced on September 12 as a mid-range mirrorless camera situated between the Sony NEX-5R and NEX-7 in the lineup. As a refresher, the expected specifications are listed below. [Read more…]
Ahead of the September 12 expected launch of the NEX-6, several detailed specifications have leaked out for the new mirrorless camera. The camera should be situated neatly between the new NEX-5R and the top-end NEX-7 in both price and features.
We’ve been expecting a 16MP APS-C sensor with phase detection pixels built into the senor, but check out the rest of the specs below. [Read more…]
The Sony NEX-5R is a new mirrorless camera featuring a 16.1MP CMOS sensor with phase-dectection AF (i.e., what DSLRs use) built directly into the sensor. In fact, there are 99 phase-detection AF points arrayed on the sensor. This should speed up the AF system considerably. [Read more…]
This is about as good as it gets in terms of leaked images. These are up close press images for the upcoming Sony NEX-5R, which is expect to officially launch next week as a replacement for the excellent Sony NEX-5N. [Read more…]
As we close in on Photokina 2012, the certainty of which cameras are going to be announced soon continues to grow more certain. Lots of rumors have pointed to both the Sony NEX-5R and NEX-6 – and now it appears with have some genuine leaked images of these two new models. [Read more…]
The Sony NEX line is already knocking it out of the park, so this news comes as icing on the cake. SonyAlphaRumors.com has good word that the upcoming Sony NEX-5R (which will replace the NEX-5N) will sport a new 16MP CMOS sensor with phase detection AF sensors built as pixels directly on the sensor.
For those unfamiliar with the tech, phase detection AF is what’s used in all DSLRs; however, most mirrorless cameras to date have featured a contrast detection AF method. The contrast AF system has gotten better in recent years – with Sony, Panasonic and Olympus doing a bang-up job of making it much faster in the latest models. However, if you’ve used both a DSLR and a mirrorless camera, then you know that DSLRs just focus faster . . . and that’s due to phase detection AF.
The recently announced Canon EOS M features a phase detection AF method at the pixel level as well. And, Canon even introduced the feature into the Canon Rebel T4i. While the Rebel T4i certainly does a better job at AF than other traditional DSLRs, it still has a ways to go based on my early testing with the camera for full time AF during video. Hopefully, the EOS M performs much better than the Rebel T4i’s AF.
But Sony is really sneaking up on Canon and Nikon. Frankly, I think Sony is the manufacturer to beat at this point in the mirrorless market. If the new NEX-5R steps up the game with an even better AF system than exists in current NEX models, then it’s going to be hard for others to really push past.