This year’s Photokina felt a little quiet, but it might have been the most significant in recent years. As well as major new DSLRs from Canon and Nikon, we also saw a slew of new large-sensor compact cameras and a smartphone – Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-CM1. Meanwhile, RED’s Epic Dragon pointed the way to the future with its 19MP Raw still images from 6K video footage. Click through for our take on the world’s biggest photographic tradeshow
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DPReview attended the Photokina trade show last week in Cologne Germany, and as well as stand reports and hands-on looks at the major new products we also sat down with executives from several of the major camera manufacturers. In this interview, we speak to Toshihisa Iida, Senior Manager of Sales & Marketing in Fujifilm’s Optical Device & Electronic Imaging products division. Click through to read more
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We were so busy playing with new Leica cameras and giant telephoto lenses at Photokina that we totally missed Sony’s announcement of four upcoming full-frame E-mount lenses. Four FE lenses are coming in the first quarter of 2015, including three primes and one zoom. Sony didn’t reveal too much, but you still get the idea by reading this.
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DPReview attended the Photokina trade show last week in Cologne Germany. As well as getting our hands on this season’s newest photo gear we also sat down with executives from several major camera manufacturers. One of them was Masaya Maeda of Canon. Our time with Mr Maeda was brief, but in our conversation he shared reactions to the 7D Mark II, and explained that Canon is very serious about mirrorless, and is also committed to making higher-resolution sensors. Click through to read more
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At Photokina last week we sat down with Shigeki Ishizuka, the global head of Sony’s Imaging Business. As well as talking us through Sony’s current Alpha strategy, Ishizuka-san also explained why the name ‘NEX’ was dropped and told us a little about how Sony’s sensor business works. Click through for the full interview
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When we visited Photokina last week in Germany we made time to sit down with senior executives from several camera manufacturers. Among them was Toshiaki Akagi, Department Manager in Nikon’s 1st Designing Department. In our conversation we spoke about reaction to the D750, the legacy of the D600 oil problem and the potential for a large-sensor mirrorless camera from Nikon in the future. Click through to read the full interview
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Today was an extremely busy day and our last day at Photokina. This has been a non-stop four days. We have packed as many meetings in as we could. We have walked miles looking at all the booths and we have learned a lot. We’re actually very excited about some of the products we have seen and look forward to trying many of these products out and reporting back to you what we learn. In today’s Photokina Day 4 Report we share a number of videos as well as comments and photos from around the Photokina Trade Show floor. Tomorrow we will wrap up our coverage with a Wrap Up Video.
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The Luminous Landscape – What’s New
It’s the second day of the photography industry’s biggest tradeshow and we paid a visit to the Sony booth. Hoping to catch a glimpse of the Alpha QX1 ‘lens-style camera’ paired with a gigantic 70-200mm lens, Sony did not disappoint us. We also got our hands on a pair of new lenses. Take a look around Sony’s Photokina 2014 stand with us. Read more
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Leica announced two new M-series rangefinders at this year’s Photokina, in addition to the Digital M-P released last month. The German company also unveiled a new medium-format S, which as well as high-resolution stills can capture 4K video. Naturally, we headed over to the Leica booth to get our grubby hands all over the new cameras. Click through to see more.
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Samsung’s hall is a far cry from the over-the-top extravaganza that is its CES booth. There are big tables for every camera it produces, usually paired with smartphones. In fact, it felt like their stand was as much about mobile devices as it was with cameras. The camera that everyone was playing with was the NX1, and we took a look at that as well as a 300mm telephoto prime concept. Click through to read more.
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