Luminous Landscape reviews the DxO One camera…and kills it right at the start!


A short video showing the issues we found during our review

Make no mistake, the DxO One camera is a great camera! But it has one very big flaw that makes it pretty much unusable. Our colleges over at Luminous Landscape described it well:

During my last week of testing, my iPhone fell off the DxO unit twice. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this. Once it fell onto a concrete floor. Not cool. The problem is the iPhone 6 Plus is a heavy phone and all that is holding it to the DxO One is a lightning connector. While holding the iPhone, the DxO One seems to be connected well. But hold the DxO unit alone and the Phone’s weight immediately begins to start pulling on the connector. A few good shakes and the camera becomes disconnected. (see video at the end of this article) Not acceptable.

I still think DxO made a step into the right direction with their product. It looks much better than the Sony QX solution. Now they just have to find a way to “secure” the device on the iPhone in a much safer way!

P.S.: If you can read french there is also a full test at Focus Numerique!

Mirrorless Camera Bag on Indiegogo by CosySpeed.

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Thomas just invited our readers to check out his new Indiegogo Mirrorless Camera Bag project:

“Hey Mirrorless Rumors Team,
we have just launched an Indiegogo campaign for our new CAMSLINGER Streetomatic. It’s a bag designed for mirrorless cameras and a pretty unique concept. Maybe this would be interesting for your readers: http://igg.me/at/camslinger-streetomatic
There are already some reviews (made with prototypes) out:
http://www.mirrorlessons.com/2015/09/01/cosyspeed-camslinger-streetomatic-review/
http://thomas.leuthard.photography/blog/streetomatic/
One of the bags is a Thomas Leuthard Edition, from which 10€ go into a street kids project.”

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Ricoh announces the new Theta S Spherical Digital Camera!

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I don’t know you but I really like Ricoh’s spherical camera idea. And just now they announced a new Theta S Spherical Camera which is already on preorder at BHphoto and Adorama. Read the press text via BH:

Spherical images have increased in popularity in recent years, and Ricoh has been at the forefront of consumer innovation with its popular Theta spherical camera line. The Theta S improves upon its predecessors by adding larger image sensors, a longer video-recording time, and two fast f/2 lenses with a folded optical system. It features dual 1/2.3″ 12MP sensors that output a 14.4MP equirectangular image, and can also capture 25-minute clips of full HD 1080p video at up to 30 fps. Videos can be streamed live via USB or HDMI, and a Live View function enables easy previewing on a mobile device. Furthering the Theta S’s ability to capture images in low light are the additions of manual exposure compensation and long exposures of up to 60 seconds. Internal memory has been increased from 4GB to 8GB, so you can store twice as many images and videos as the Theta m15.

A new Theta S app for smart devices allows you to adjust camera settings and improved Wi-Fi connectivity enables data transfer up to four times faster than the previous Theta m15. Sharing of your images and videos has also been made easier by the inclusion of a Google-supported Open Spherical Camera API that is compatible with Google’s services, such as Google Maps and Street View. You can also upload your files directly to theta360.com, or social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, and YouTube.

An updated user interface and physical design includes a sure-grip rubber coating and a face-mounted LED mode indicator. A clear TH-1 Hard Case, and a white or black TS-1 Soft Case is available to help protect the Theta S; the Strap Attachment is available in silver, blue, orange, green, and gray.

New LEICA X-U camera name registered in Korea

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Digicameinfo spotted a new Leica camera namer registration. The “Leica X-U” will be announced in October and details are yet unknown. And I don’t know yet if that will be the name of the new mirrorless full frame interchangeable camera. Don’t thinks so. But I hope my good Leica source can tell me more about that camera soon!

The new Panasonic GH4R is coming….to Europe only!

So what fas all that fuzz about the “GH4R”? Well really nothing as expected! The GH4R is just a GH4R made for the European market. It removes the 29min video recording limit which has been there to avoid to pay additional taxes to the EU. Yes, EU considers camera recording video more than 30min as videocameras and companies would have to pay an extra tax on it.
Furthermore the GH4R already includes the V-LOG update which increase the dynamic range from 10 to 12 stops when recording video. Quite a big step forward!
The GH4 will sell for £1199 in UK.