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Nikon teases mirrorless with video and microsite

23 Jul

Nikon has posted a cinematic new teaser video featuring what appears to be its forthcoming mirrorless camera. The minute-and-a-half long video appears on a ‘special events’ page with the tagline ‘In Pursuit of Light’ and a promise of more content to come.

Check out Nikon’s new microsite

The first part of the video seems to be a cinematic representation of light hitting a sensor, but the last few seconds give a glimpse of the shadowy outline of a camera on a tripod. To save you the trouble, below are a couple of screengrabs from the video with brightness boosted.

There’s not much to glean from these few seconds, but from the profile view the camera clearly looks mirrorless. That’s not a surprise, considering that the industry executives we spoke to at CP+ all told us that full-frame mirrorless from the major traditional manufacturers would become the norm very soon.

What do you think?

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Canon patent application teases full-frame 58mm F1.4 ‘soft-focus’ lens

28 Jun

An interesting new patent application from Canon details a series of potential lens designs with an adjustable soft-focus feature.

Japanese patent application number 2018-97240 lays out the groundwork and schematics for four different full-frame camera lens designs that feature a dual-focus system: a 58mm F1.4, a 35m F1.8, a 105mm F2 and a 70-200mm F4.

According to the patent application, the first focusing module would be used for the traditional purpose of focusing on the subject matter. The other module, however, isn’t for the sake of focusing, but to intentionally soften the image using spherical aberration.

The patent application details two specific challenges designing such a lens: trying to focus the lens, which is a challenge to do when spherical aberration is present in the image, and having variable soft-focus, so you can add as much or as little spherical aberration as you see fit for the scene—something not possible with past soft-focus lenses.

Below is the computer-translated text from the patent detailing how the soft-focus module would work:

A second arrangement state by which said 1st focus group and said 2nd focus group are arranged so that a second aberration amount which will be in a focusing state in the aforementioned predetermined object distance, and is different from said first aberration amount may be generated.

Regardless of whether or not one of these lens designs ever makes it to market, this isn’t the first time a soft-focus lens has been made. In 1935, Leitz created the Thambar 90mm F2.2, a classic Leica lens renowned for its dream-like aesthetic. In fact, Leica released a modernized M-mount version of the Thambar 90mm F2.2 late last year as well.

As with all patents and patent applications, this design may never leave the metaphorical paper. But it’s interesting nonetheless.

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Canon teases CMOS sensor nearly 40 times larger than a 35mm full-frame sensor

19 Jun

In 2010, Canon revealed that it was developing the world’s largest CMOS sensor, one measuring about 40 times larger than a full-frame CMOS sensor. The company has now added more details about the project to its website, including a discussion of a real-world application.

Whereas a 35mm full-frame sensor measures 36 x 24mm, Canon’s massive chip measures about 200 x 200mm. Canon gives a little detail about some of the challenges presented by such a large sensor and how it overcame them, saying in part:

Increasing the size of CMOS sensors entails overcoming such problems as distortion and transmission delays for the electrical signals converted from light. To resolve these issues, Canon not only made use of a parallel processing circuit, but also exercised ingenuity with the transfer method itself.

Overcoming this problem allowed comparatively fast readout of the sensor’s huge pixels, allowing it to capture video at 60fps in conditions as dark as 0.3 lux, which is about as bright as a night scene illuminated by the moon.

The company says the sensor has already been used by Japan’s Kiso Observatory to capture the first ever video of meteors that otherwise would have been too faint to record. This allowed analysis of the meteor frequency, providing supporting evidence for a theoretical model of meteor behavior.

Canon also suggests the ultrahigh-sensitivity sensor could be used for various other applications requiring video in extreme low-light conditions, such as studying the behavior of nocturnal animals or shooting video of aurora.

Via: Canon

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Kodak teases first sample photos of Ektachrome

05 Jun
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Kodak Professional has posted a video to its Instagram page and a few sample photos to its Facebook page teasing the first test images taken with its revived Ektachrome slide film, as well as images of what the packaging will look like.

Back in January 2017, Kodak Professional announced it was bringing back its beloved Ektachrome slide film from the dead. Since then, the only major update we’ve heard is from back in 2017, when a few higher-ups at Kodak Professional detailed the progress it had made on bringing the film back from the dead on the Kodakery podcast.

Ektachrome 100: Our Development team is still working hard on the update! In the meantime, here are some successful test photos from our pilot-scale equipment. #KodakProfessional #Ektachrome #Ektachrome100 #Photography

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Now, we finally have something to look at. Alongside a video that slideshows through 12 different images, including color cards, sample shots, and photos of the packaging material, the Kodak Professional Instagram account writes, ‘Ektachrome 100: Our Development team is still working hard on the update! In the meantime, here are some successful test photos from our pilot-scale equipment.’

As a few Facebook and Instagram commenters have pointed out, the sample images appear a bit grainy in the video. Kodak Professional replied, saying the video did appear to make the photos appear more grainy and less impressive than the stills. They said to see more accurate samples, to check out its Facebook post, embedded above, which includes three sample images seen in the Instagram video.

There’s still no definitive date on when the public launch will be, but seeing test photos means we’re one step closer to seeing it back on the shelves.

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Samsung teases Galaxy S9 low light and slow-mo performance

16 Feb

On the 25th of February, Samsung will unveil its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S9, and the Korean company is already heavily teasing some of the new model’s new and improved camera features in a couple of short teaser videos on its Korean Youtube channel.

The first video (above) shows several low-light scenes in quick succession. Towards the end there is the silhouette of a deer in near darkness. The animal’s head brightens up when the number 9 appears around it, hinting at some kind of low-light mode or improved low-light capability in the camera.

Previous rumors have mentioned a variable F1.5/F2.4 aperture. The lower value would be one of the fastest apertures on any smartphone camera, but we’d suspect Samsung will add some clever multi-frame-stacking technology on top of that to achieve usable exposures in very low light and manage noise.

Another video is a quick succession of action-packed scenes. At the end, a skydiver is almost frozen in time as the number 9 appears, hinting at some kind of super-slow-motion capture. From what we know so far, the S9 will come with a 480fps 1080p Full-HD slow-motion mode.

These kinds of teasers always leave you with more questions than answers, but fortunately we’ll know more in 10 days time when the device is launched. We’ll be at the event in Barcelona, so stay tuned for more details!

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Tamron teases new lens ahead of CP+

14 Feb

Tamron Japan has posted an intriguing teaser image on its Instagram account, just in time for an announcement at either WPPI or CP+ (probably the latter). The backlit image is all we have to go off of, but naturally, speculation is running rampant online.

Canon Rumors thinks this might be a 100mm f/2 VC or a 135mm f/2 VC, while Sony Alpha Rumors received an anonymous (and therefore still highly unreliable) tip that it is in fact a “28-75mm F/2.8 Di III RXD” for Sony FE mount. Based on the design alone, we’re leaning towards calling this a zoom lens—notice the two rubber rings and the gap between the top ring and the top of the lens.

As user Sharlin points out in the CR forums, the design is very to the Tamron 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 Di III VC.

Of course, all of this is errant speculation until Tamron decides to officially announce whatever its teasing. But if you have any educated guesses about what the lens might be, drop them in the comments along with your reasoning.

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Meike teases three new lenses: 50mm F1.7, 25mm F2.0 and 25mm T2.2

08 Feb

Chinese accessory and optical manufacturer Meike has posted a picture on its website of three lenses it intends to launch in the coming months. Two stills lenses are promised, a 50mm and a 25mm, as well as a 25mm designed for movie shooters.

It is reported that the first will be a 50mm F1.7 for mirrorless systems—including the Canon EOS M mount—which is due in the middle of next month. A 25mm F2 shown in the same graphic is quite a different design to the 50mm, and different also from Meike’s existing mirrorless and APS-C range of lenses, so it isn’t easy to guess what systems this model will be aimed at. The third lens is a 25mm T2.2 Cinema lens, which appears to be the company’s first foray into this video market.

Finally, as for how much these lenses might cost, it’s worth noting that the company’s current 50mm F2 retails for about $ 80… so they tend to be pretty affordable.

For more information, visit the Meike website.

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DJI teases new folding drone announcement for January 23rd

18 Jan

DJI is getting ready to unveil a new… something… on January 23rd. We know this because the Chinese drone maker (and camera company) just released a teaser video that hints at a live product announcement that morning. The tagline, Adventure Unfolds, implying that it might be a new folding drone, possibly a replacement for the Mavic Pro that only recently got some real competition.

The video is made up mostly of stock video footage with epic music playing in the background, but DJI does offer a few tantalizing closeups of a sleek looking new drone (we assume… at least). The photos don’t reveal anything at all, really, but here are a couple of screenshots just in case you want to get speculating:

The description of the video reads, “Your next great journey begins at 10 am EST on Jan 23, 2018,” and it looks like DJI will be streaming the announcement live at this link.

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Macphun responds to Lightroom CC release, teases its own photo manager

20 Oct
Macphun’s own Digital Asset Manager (DAM) is coming to Luminar in 2018… and it’ll be a free upgrade. Photo: Macphun

It’s no surprise that not everyone is exactly thrilled by Adobe’s Lightroom announcement. The end of standalone Lightroom, and the birth of Lightroom in the cloud, has a lot of legacy users looking for a new way to organize their photos into a perpetual library they don’t have to ‘subscribe’ to. There are already tons of options out there, but if you’re a fan of Macphun’s editing applications, take heart: the software company has their own solution in the works.

Earlier today, we heard from Macphun that they’re working on their own Digital Asset Manager (DAM), which will work with both hard drives and cloud storage platforms.

The Luminar photo manager’s single image view. Photo: Macphun

“It’s going to be a perfect tool for organizing and managing images,” says Macphun. “Moreover, users will be able to run it along with LR library to compare both DAMs side by side and choose which fits them better.”

Here’s a quick video ‘preview’ (read: teaser):

The DAM will be added to Luminar in 2018, and the best part of it all is that it will be completely and totally free for current Luminar users.

For now, those are all of the details we have, but if you’re unhappy with the latest update to Lightroom and you’re looking for an alternative DAM and photo editor combo, check out the preview above and keep an eye on Macphun in 2018.

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Yashica teases ‘Unprecedented Camera’: Coming to Kickstarter in October

23 Sep

Last week’s Yashica teaser was met with a lot of excitement. But it didn’t take long for people to claim that teaser had nothing to do with a camera. In fact, they said, Yashica was just teasing a clip-on smartphone lens they had already released. Womp womp…

But not so fast! Another teaser video released yesterday seems to hint at the big return to the camera market we were all actually hoping for.

The teaser, titled “The Prologue,” shows more of the same girl walking around with an old Yashica film camera (maybe?) and even a brief scene with that clip-on smartphone lens. All unremarkable, except the whole thing starts with this tagline:

Expect the Unexpected

The Unprecedented Camera by YASHICA

And later on a date floats onto the screen:

October 2017, Kickstarter

It looks like Yashica may be making a grand return after all. Hopefully they don’t disappoint us after all this teasing. If you’re claiming to release an “unprecedented” camera, you’d better deliver.

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