After a triple whammy of camera announcements last week, Leica AG dropped the proverbial bomb at Photokina 2008. Dr. Kaufmann unveiled their latest creation: the Leica S2 Professional Digital SLR. This beast not only propels Leica into the world of Autofocusing Digital SLRs (which they were sorely deficient in for years), but also places...
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Olympus Imaging Corporation (President: Masaharu Okubo) today announced that it has begun development of an interchangeable lens type digital camera based on the “Micro Four Thirds System.” Development of the camera will bring dramatic reductions in size and weight to the Olympus E-System, and will comply with the new Micro Four Thirds System standard...
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I was cruising through the newly revamped Leica website trawling for info on the last big announcement they are saving for Photokina when I came upon this little nugget: Leica has updated the M8 Classic firmware to v2.0 which adds the following features to the original Leica digital rangefinder: * Auto ISO – The...
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Carl Zeiss AG of Oberkochen/Germany have released a slew of lens announcements for Photokina 2008. A new SLR mount, dubbed ZE, premiered allowing Zeiss optics to be used on Canon EF mount cameras. The first lenses in this series are: * Planar T* 1,4/50 ZE 579 euros (incl. 19% German VAT) * Planar T*...
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Evolution of the LEICA M8 digital rangefinder camera * New metal blade focal plane shutter * Ultra scratch-resistant sapphire crystal as coverglass * New snapshot mode * Quick override setting * Leica dot and accessory also in black * Robust “vulcanite“ finish * New compact charger The new LEICA M8.2 is a significant development...
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PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-G1: WORLD’S SMALLEST AND LIGHTEST DIGITAL INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA 1 World’s First Micro Four Thirds System Camera Features Portability, Ease-of-Use and Colorful Blue and Red Models For Personalized Style and Active Lifestyles Secaucus, NJ (September 12, 2008) – Panasonic today announced the world’s first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the LUMIX DMC-G1,...
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Leicarumors has just posted some images and specs for the upcoming Leica D-Lux 4. They also report that is has the following specifications: Leica D-Lux4 on sale from mid-October The first digital Leica systemkompaktkameraet on sale from mid-October. Read pressmeldingen from Leica / Lars Farnes AS here. Published: 3.9. Last updated at 3.9. 15:57....
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Nolobe Software makes two applications for the Mac: Interarchy – a high performance file transfer program that supports mirroring, a boatload of protocols (12 in total including iDisk and Amazon S3), and can take advantage of everything that Mac OS X has to offer: Automator, Dashboard, Bonjour, iDisk, Spotlight, Address Book, AppleScript and a...
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Vulcan Mean Streak Originally uploaded by Carlos Echenique Just started a gallery of really cool looking bikes and cars I’ve come across. I will update this blog entry whenever I add new rides to the collection. Cover photo is a stock Kawasaki Vulcan Mean Streak. This bike just screams ‘badass’. It may only be...
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Rumors have been flying about the blogosphere regarding an earthshaking product introduction by Nikon. Nikon took out a half-page ad in Rangefinder Magazine about “Something Big” to be announced at the WPPI convention in February 2009.NikonRumors has been tracking this for quite a while and even Wired picked up on this. So far the...
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