Category: SLR

  • Marquetry Sigma SD1: The swan song?

    When your product does not meet its market, if you are marketing manager, you need ideas. That is the reason why, at Sigma, people are looking for original ideas. And the marketing department just thought about marquetry. Or about wood to elegantly (?) wrap the most expensive photo camera of the Sigma range. If we…

  • Canon 1D X

    Quite a bit far outside of the possibilities of most photographers, here is the new pro D-SLR camera from Canon, le Canon EOS 1D X. As a matter of fact, this is a camera which conciliates the Canon EOS 1D and EOS 1Ds families. We’re back to the Full Frame sensors, with 18 mega-pixels. the…

  • Canon 5D MkIII, the fake ad

    Dominik Wörner is a photographer who loves to have fun with Photoshop and other tools. You want some evidence? Just have a look at the sequence of pictures of the future Canon EOS 5D MkIII (if it ever happens to be born) that he assembled into a lovely video clip which could be the official…

  • Sony NEX-5n clicks: Solution is coming

    Sony was not very précise, but they now recognize the issue, have identified the cause (or a way to mask the problem) and are preparing a solution which will be made available to customers under warranty. More later.

  • Small sensor for the Nikon 1

    The most surprising part of today’s announcement of the Nikon 1 family is certainly the appearance of a new size format for the digital sensor: A 1″ sensor size which about half of the more usual DX or APS-C size normally found in the Nikon D-SLR photo cameras (or those of the competition) when looking…

  • Nikon drops mirrors

    Nikon drops mirrors

    As was expected by many people, Nikon annoucned a new photo camera system based upon a mirrorless architecture, a small sensor and a new lens system. Press Release MELVILLE, N.Y. (Sept 21, 2011) – Nikon Inc. today announced a revolutionary new digital imaging system built from the ground up to empower users with new ways to…

  • Canon keeps working to replace its 100-400mm

    I should never exaggerate the importance of patent publishing (some of them are only a way to make sure nobody can re-use the same idea when invented independently), but it is interesting to notice that Canon published a patent for an architecture targeting a 100-400mm f/4-5.6 tele-zoom which could well become the next replacement for…

  • The new Sony RAWs on Capture One

    The new Sony RAWs on Capture One

    The most recent release of Capture One (version 6.3) now supports the new RAW files grnerated by the most recent Sony products using the huge 24 MP sensor: Sony Alpha 77 Sony Alpha 65 Sony NEX-7 Sony NEX-5n We should also list the support for the most recent Olympus: Olympus E-P3 Olympus E-PL3

  • Canon surprise on 3rd November

    Canon just sent an invitation for a revolutionary event to their best press contacts in the US. The only problem: Nobody really knows what it’s about. And since the Canon-lovers actually have nothing to talk about at the time (Canon and Nikon had made it clear that it was not even worth inviting them to…