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  • Fujifilm announces F800EXR – 20x compact superzoom with Wi-Fi

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    Fujifilm has announced the FinePix F800EXR, a raw-capable 20x compact superzoom with built-in WiFi. The F800 uses a 16MP CMOS sensor that offers the company’s dynamic range or noise-optimizing EXR technology. Its stabilized lens offers a 25-500mm equivalent range at apertures of F3.5-5.3. It can also capture 1080p movies and offers P,A,S and M shooting modes. A near-twin of the still-current F770EXR, the F800 omits the older camera’s GPS feature, but introduces WiFi Wireless Image Transfer for Android and iOS devices via the free  ‘Fujifilm Photo Receiver,’ app. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Nikon announces AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5-4.5G ED VR affordable full-frame lens

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    Nikon has announced the AF-S Nikkor 24-85mm F3.5-4.5G ED VR, a comparatively affordable, stabilized, variable aperture standard zoom lens for full frame cameras. It comes as Nikon celebrates the sale of the 70 millionth Nikkor lens since 1933, and the 30 millionth silent-wave motor lens since the system’s introduction in 1996. It’s hard not to interpret the announcement as lending weight to the rumors of an affordable full-frame body, since it’s hard to imagine large numbers of D800 owners using a lens with a recommended price of $ 599 as their everyday lens.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon announces EOS-1D C 4K DSLR with 8-bit 4:2:2 1080p HDMI output

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    Canon has unveiled its promised 4K capable DSLR, the EOS-1D C, which can capture 4K (4096 x 2160 pixel) video at up to 24p without downscaling, from an APS-H crop of its 18MP full-frame sensor. The camera, which shares the majority of its specifications with the still-awaited 1D X, can also capture 1080p60 or 50p or output it uncompressed over its HDMI connector. Full HD can be captured from a 16:9 crop from the whole sensor, or a smaller, APS-C-like Super 35mm sub-frame that allows the use of Canon’s EF Cinema Zoom lenses. The camera will cost around €10,000 (exact price to be confirmed) and will be available from October.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sigma USA announces pricing of 50-150mm F2.8 OS HSM

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    Sigma Corporation of America has announced the pricing and availability for its stabilized 50-150mm F2.8 APO EX DC OS HSM lens. The lens, designed to offer a roughly 70-200mm equivalent zoom range, will have a street price of $ 1099. The OS version of the lens is 46% longer than the existing, non-OS version.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon announces EOS 5D Mark III 22MP full-frame DSLR

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    Canon has announced the Canon EOS 5D Mark III, the latest in its enthusiast full-frame 5D series and successor to the popular EOS 5D Mark II. Based around a 22MP full-frame sensor, it can shoot 6 frames per second and features a 61-point AF system much like the EOS-1D X. It can capture 1080p movies at 24, 25 or 30 fps and offers high quality intraframe (All-I) video compression amongst a host of movie-related improvements. It will be available from the end of March with an MSRP of $ 3499 / €3299 / £2999.99.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Samsung US announces rugged and waterproof SD cards

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    Samsung US is showing off a range of tough, waterproof and magnetproof SDHC and Micro SDHC cards. The range includes several high-speed versions in addition to the ones announced in Europe last July. The latest cards include ‘Extreme Speed’ Class 10 16Gb cards (24MB/s read, 21MB/s write), and ‘High Speed’ 32Gb (24MB/s read, 17MB/s write) cards also described as Class 10.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • World Press Photo announces 2012 contest winners

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    Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the World Press Photo 2011 award. The prize comes for his image of a woman holding a relative wounded during protests against Yemen’s President Saleh. The World Press Photo Contest 2012 also awarded prizes in 18 other categories ranging from Arts and Entertainment to Portraits. Some of these images may be familiar from news coverage throughout the year but they make a compelling and inspiring reminder of the breadth of photography, even within the confines of press usage.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sony announces three CMOS-based compacts including 18MP DSC-TX200V

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    Sony has announced three CMOS-based compact cameras – the Cyber-Shots DSC-TX200V, DSC-WX50 and DSC-WX70. The TX200V is a GPS-equipped card-style touch-screen camera with Sony’s latest 18MP back-lit CMOS sensor. It also includes the company’s fast AF system that aims to reduce focus times down as low as 0.1 sec and 0.2 sec in low light. It can also grab 13.5MP stills while shooting 1080p60 video. It also has an WVGA-equivalent OLED touch screen and glass front panel, spoiling the whole thing only slightly by using Micro SD cards. The WX50 meanwhile offers the older 16MP and 5x, 25-125mm zoom.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Pentax announces Optio VS20 20x zoom with twin shutter buttons

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    Pentax has announced the Optio VS20, possibly the first compact camera with a second shutter button and zoom lever for portrait-orientation shooting. Beyond that it’s a pretty well-specified 20x compact superzoom, featuring a 28-560mm equivalent zoom lens with sensor-shift image stabilization for its 16MP CCD. It’s not the smallest 20x zoom camera we’ve seen but it manages to include a anti-glare-coated 460k dot 3.0″ LCD and costs $ 249/£199, so it’s not uncompetitive.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • SLR Magic announces HyperPrime CINE 50mm T0.95 M-mount lens

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    Hong Kong lens maker SLR Magic has announced the HyperPrime CINE 50mm T0.95 lens for the Leica M mount. The lens, which can be easily adapted for Micro Four Thirds or Sony NEX cameras, is designed for low light and shallow depth-of-field videography and available-light photography. The lens features 12 elements in 7 groups and, the company says, is optimized to be shot with the aperture wide open. The lens won’t be available until September 2012. In the meantime, the company has also announced a spotting scope that mounts directly to Micro Four Thirds cameras.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)