Panasonic broadens SLR ambitions with L10
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Panasonic hopes its second-generation SLR, the $1,300 L10, will help the company move beyond its initial toehold in the lucrative but demanding market. Photos: Panasonic's Lumix DMC-L1
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Blog: Olympus has begun offering a cloaked image of a new SLR model, likely its new top-end model due later this year.
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Time to start squinting at your screen. Nikon releases sample images from its D3 professional-grade SLR, and Canon 40D shots also are emerging.
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(InfoWorld) - If you can't beat them, join them. That's the motto of two of the world's most renowned makers of analog cameras, Germany's Leica Camera AG and Denmark's Hasselblad A/S, which have used the Photokina imaging show in Cologne, Germany, to launch several high-end digital cameras in an attempt to counter the market dominance of Asian manufacturers. "Last year, we had serious economic problems to contend with," said Josef Spichtig, Leica's chairman of the management board at a news conference. "The key question was whether the company would be able to carry the values and quality characteristics it had developed in the analog world into the digital world. The answer is yes as our new products show." Spichtig's colleague, Ralph Nebe, director of marketing and sales, said that the six new digital cameras launched at Photokina show the company is pursuing "a course of its own in the changed camera market." At the top of the range is the Leica M8 digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) with the Leica viewfinder system. A low-noise CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor ensures a resolution of 10.3 megapixels. Leica has developed two new lenses for the camera, which can also be used with virtually all lenses in the company's M range produced since 1954. The M8 will start shipping at the end of November. No pricing information was available. Among Leica's other new digital cameras is the V-Lux 1, an SLR model featuring a swivelling 2 inch TFT (thin-film transistor) display, and the 10 megapixel compact D-Lux . Both cameras will start shipping next month. In a move to carve out its niche in the new world of digital photography, Hasselblad launched what the company claims to be the world's first 48 millimeter full-frame DSLR camera. The H3D is available in two models, the H3D-22, which offers a resolution of 22 megapixels, or the H3D-39, offering 39 megapixels on "the largest image sensor currently available in digital photography" -- more than twice the size of a high-end 35 mm camera sensor, the company said. The camera is built around a new digital camera engine. Information about lens and exact capture conditions are fed into the engine for ultra fine tuning of the auto-focus mechanism, taking into account the design of the lens and optical specification of the sensor. Another feature is Digital APO Correction (DAC). Pricing and availability information was not immediately available.
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The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models.
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Company unveils prototype of top-end camera that features an unusually large sensor--the size of a full frame of 35mm film.
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Thanks to digital cameras, picture taking has been revitalized. At this year&#39;s Photokina, the world&#39;s largest photography trade fair, digital cameras dominate the picture.
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Loreo's lens lets an SLR take two simultaneous pictures of the same scene, letting people see 3D views from a print.
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Blog: Consultant and prominent photo blogger Rob Galbraith says it appears the new high-end Canon SLR has problems with autofocus when it's warm and bright outside.
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Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-L10 has automatic face detection capablities and a 'live view' display.
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New firmware improves autofocus, autoexposure, and white-balance abilities, Panasonic said.
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Blog: One Sony-watcher believes the company's 'advanced amateur' SLR is due soon, and another pro model will have a full-frame sensor.
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Three new models of digital S.L.R. cameras will demonstrate just how fast single-lens reflex technology is advancing.
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The company releases new applications aimed at amateur photographers and video shooters.
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Device can improve the image quality of standard and high-definition images.
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Bring on the superzooms: Tamron's 28-300mm lens is due to ship in Japan next week for Canon SLRs.