Canon created a lot of expectations with their “impossible” teaser. And it turned out to be a complete marketing failure. Just read the reaction on their Twitter account (Click here). These are just some of them:
CanonWatch spotted that Canon Netherland teaser showing a new soon to be announced superzoom and large sensor compact camera. I guess it will feature the same Sony 20,1 MP 1 inch sensor as the G7x. And it will compete against the RX10 and FZ1000 cameras.
Both Sony and Canon will announce Full Frame cameras with around 50 Megapixel during the first quarter of 2015. Those cameras will likely be displayed at the CP+ show which starts in mid February.
The Sony 46 Megapixel FF camera will almost certainly be a new E-mount A7 (or A9?). It will feature an advanced autofocusing system based on the current A6000 hybrid af camera.
Canon is likely to announce a new DSLR with such a 50MP sensor. But there is a small chance Canon could use that sensor also on a new Full Frame mirrorless system camera.
I am 100% sure those kind of sensors are coming early 2015. We have an exciting time ahead of us!
Samsung published that great NX1 4K video shot in Madagascar. Looks great and definitely much better than their current financial results :)
Reuters reports:
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is heading for its first annual earnings drop since 2011 after it revealed its July-September profit would be the lowest in more than three years and said short-term prospects for smartphones were uncertain.
Until now Samsung seemed to be “Immune” to the crisis and unlike many Japanese competitor it was doing well in the smartphone market (not so in the camera market). Hopefully Samsung will recover soon as Panasonic did (and not end like Sony!).
One more thing: Can You Spot the Samsung NX1 Pre-Production Model’s Sample Photos? Check out at Digitalversus!
Spanish researcher from the University of Granada announced a new kind of sensor having 36 different colored layers(!). It works just like the Sigma Foveon sensor but Sigma uses only three layers (Red-Green-Blue) aligned vertically one below the other. The current Sigma and Bayer sensors only extracts information from one of these three colours (RGB) in each pixel within the image. To extract the information from the rest of colours in each pixel, it is necessary to apply algorithms which in most cases are among manufacturers’ best-kept secrets.
The new 36 layer sensor named “Transverse Field Detectors (TFD)” can obtain up to twelve times more color information than the human eye!
According to the PI in this group, Miguel Ángel Martínez Domingo:
“the new sensors developed at the Polytechnic University of Milan are called Transverse Field Detectors (TFD) and they are capable of extracting the full colour information from each pixel in the image without the need for a layer of colour filter on them.
In order to do so, they take advantage of a physical phenomenon by virtue of which each photon penetrates at a different depth depending on its wavelength, i.e., its colour. In this way, by collecting these photons at different depths on the silice surface of the sensor, the different channels of colour can be separated without the necessity of filters.”
There is yet no info about when these kind of sensor will make it into a real mass production camera.
More info about the sensor at Opticsinfobase.org and Canal.
TheCameraStoreTV posted that great Olympus 40-150mm vs Panasonic 35-100mm lens shootout! Which one is the best? Just watch the video to see it!
And here are more test of the new 40-150mm PRO lens:
Sample Gallery at Cameras.Reviewed.
Review by Robin Wong.
Preview by BMCR.
Great image samples at Pen3.de.
That is a massive let down. Canon big teaser counter and full page advertising on the New York Times was made for a completely unexciting self-producing and self-publishing platform. There is one video on top and another one here if you want to see what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtS39XS513I.
We will no more believe in any Canon teaser :)
found via CanonWatch.
