[Samsung SMART CAMERA NX1] Enchanted Icelandic Aurora Caught in 4K/UHD Time-Lapse

Samsung NX500 Shooter’s Report at Imaging Resource.
5 Lessons Learned Switching from DSLR to Mirrorless for Travel Photography (DPS).
The Mirrorless party 2015 by Thecamerastoretv.
Island life: Samsung NX500 Shooting Experience (Dpreview).
Retro, refined: Fujifilm X100T reviewed (Dpreview).
Sigma dp0 Quattro Hands-On Preview at ePhotozine.
Fuji 16-55mm review: An excellent versatile lens (Theinspiredeye).
Samsung NX1 review at Dpreview.

Canon Japan announced the XC10. It’s a 4K camera with a 12MP sensor and it will be released in mid June 2015.

Key Features

The new product, aimed at professionals and advanced amateurs users involved in video production, is the 4K video camera that was both high image quality and compact and lightweight. Video production and media, such as promotional videos and documentaries, as a sub-camera of digital cinema, making it suitable for a variety of applications such as the shooting of the scene that require mobility.

The high-quality 4K video can be video production immersive high definition

And 1.0-inch CMOS sensor of high sensitivity, 4K video lens equipped with a 10x optical zoom, image processing platform DIGIC DV 5 performs arithmetic processing in high speed, the newly developed all of Canon’s proprietary video format “XF-AVC”, I realize the shooting and recording of high-quality 4K video. Compression method 4K video adopts the Intra Frame for achieving high bit rates up to 305Mbps, while maintaining the high quality of 4K video Through the high compression, can reduce the data capacity. In addition, it is equipped with a video recording system that has been adopted in video production equipment CINEMA EOS SYSTEM, you will be able to shoot a high-luminance portion and the overexposure and underexposure less impressive video even in dark. Furthermore, by adopting a high-speed recording media CFast 2.0 card to 4K movie recording, you can built-in recording of 4K video.

About 12 million can be cutting out the still image from the high sensitivity of the still image shooting and 4K video pixel

The installation of an effective pixel count about 12 million pixels 1.0-inch high-sensitivity CMOS sensor, you can still image shooting of ISO20000. In addition, it is equipped with a mechanical shutter, camera is ready to take a picture not only quickly moving subject also distortion (Strain). Furthermore, in “4K frame capture”, I can record still images of about 8.29 million pixels moment from 4K video of 30 frames / sec.

Contributing to video production that require mobility

About 125 (width) × 102 (height) × 122 (depth) mm, and has realized the size and weight of about 930g ?. Furthermore, by adopting approximately 90 ° rotatable grip front and rear tilt type liquid crystal and the vertical, such as high-angle and low-angle, allows shooting from an arbitrary position and angle of the user, requiring mobility image I will contribute to the production.

?body only. Battery pack food unit finder unit of memory card and shipped (same root) is not included.

Market trends in video production equipment

With the digitization of the video production industry, and at the same time respond to 4K video progresses rapidly in productions such as movies, efforts to practical use of 4K broadcasting has begun in many countries in the broadcasting industry. From input to output, by 4K of the video production workflow progresses, it is of course, the needs of the digital 4K video camera suitable for video production in a compact and lightweight come increasingly in the future equipment is a high-resolution and image quality It is expected that. (Canon survey)

Personal View posted the graphs of the February digital camera sales. As you can see there is no big news. Camera sales are still bad compared to the previous year (which was alreayd a very bad year). And this time both DSLR and Mirrorless camera shipments were lower than the same month 12 months ago. Wondering when this will ever end to fall and fall…

The full detailed numbers can be see on that CIPA PDF.

Samsung published the full NX3300 support page with additional info about the camera. There are four differences with the predecessor (NX3000):

– Now external flash is bundled.
– Beauty Face was moved from Smart Mode to mode dial.
– Home Monitor+ was removed.
– Samsung Raw Converter replaces Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.

Found via Dicahub.

I guess the question that we have to answer is not “if” but “when” Sony will finally make their first multilayer sensor cameras. The last few years Sony patented many such Foveon alike sensor ideas. And the newest patent underlines their effort to design a much improved version of the Sigma sensor. To get rid of the corner issues of foveon sensor Sony plans to add a lens on top of the sensor. This will correct the Light Ray angle and allow a perfect sharp image on the entire frame.

Really Sony…do it now!

via SonyAlphaRumors.

The new Rokinon 100mm macro lens can now be preordered at BHphoto (Click here).

Product Highlights
Fuji X, Samsung NX, MFT and Sony E-mount version available
100mm (35mm Equivalent)
Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/32
One High Refractive Index Element
One Extra-Low Dispersion Element
Ultra Multi-Coating
1:1 Magnification, 1′ Minimum Focus
Internal Focus; Manual Focus Design
Non-Rotating Filter Mount
Rounded 9-Blade Diaphragm

Great lens!

Fuji keeps showing the world how to take care of customers by releasing the next major firmware update. I hope other companies will learn from it :)

X-T1 FIRMWARE (download here)

X-T1 firmware update: 1. Improvement of the flash function when “MECHANICAL+ELECTRONIC” is selected. An external non-TTL flash will fire when the “MECHANICAL+ELECTRONIC” is selected in the “SHUTTER TYPE” option of the SHOOTING MENU. If “S (Shutter-Priority)” or “M (Manual Exposure)” mode is selected, set the shutter speed to 1/180 sec. or slower. 2. Improvement of the Wi-Fi function when “FUJIFILM PC AutoSave” is used. The phenomenon is fixed that Wi-Fi communication with “FUJIFILM PC AutoSave” stops at the moment the LCD turns off 3. Improvement of the display for the “USB MODE” in the SET-UP menu
1) When “PC SHOOT FIXED” is selected, the warning of “IMAGES ARE NOT SAVED IN THE CARD” appears [screenshot]. 2) In case that “PC SHOOT FIXED” is selected in the “USB MODE” and the camera is not connected to a PC via a USB cable, you cannot turn off the camera when you turn the ON/OFF switch to the OFF positon or remove the lens from the camera becasue the camera stays in the waiting mode for image transfer. With this upgrade, the message below will appear to confirm whether you stop the image transfer to the PC or not in such operations. If you press “OK” button, the camera will turn off without recording images.

X100T FIRMWARE (download here)

X100T firmware update: 1. Addition of the messages when “COVERSION LENS” setting is changed in the FUNCTION (Fn) SETTING. When an Fn button with “CONVERSION LENS” setting is pressed, one of the messages below appears in a cyclic manner in addition to the icons. 2. Improvement of flash function when “MECHANICAL+ELECTRONIC” is selected. An external flash will fire when the “MECHANICAL+ELECTRONIC” is selected in the “SHUTTER TYPE” option of the shooting menu. 3. Improvement of the viewfinder display. When the dual optical viewfinder/electronic range finder (ERF) display is used with the Digital Split Image, the white Focus frame appears in the center of the viewfinder. 4. Improvement of Focus Peaking display in the electronic viewfinder under a dark environment for easy focus setting.

IMPROVED OIS

Also, the OIS has been improved for the following lenses (download link): XF 10-24, XF 18-55, XF 18-135 and XF 55-200.

found via Fujrumors.