Next week Canon will announce the new G7X II

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Image on top shows the current G7X

There is one more Canon announcement coming next week. They will announce a new G7XII and SX720 compact camera (and a new 80D DSLR).  These are the specs leaked by Digicameinfo:

G7X II specs
– 1 inch 20MP CMOS sensor
– DIGIC7
– Lens is 24-100mm F1.8-2.8. Image Stabilizer (IS) equipped. Aperture blades are nine
– Control ring mounted
– Continuous shooting up to 8 frames / sec (even JPEG even RAW)
– 3.0 inches 1.04 million dot tilting LCD monitor. Touch panel
– Tilt 180 degrees upward, 45 degrees below
– Video is full HD
– Time-lapse movie
– Wi-FI built-in. NFC
– Picture Style
– In the camera RAW development

SX720 HS specs
– 20.3 MP CMOS sensor
– DIGIC6
– 40 times optical zoom. Image Stabilizer (IS)
– Wi-Fi built-in. NFC
– Video is full HD
– 3.0 inches 922,000-dot LCD monitor

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The Russian Magazine Rns.online reports that the Russian public company Rostec wants “to make it a luxury device, analogous to the Leica.”
I am yet not sure a “historical communist camera” can get suddenly become a “luxury product”. But I am curious how they will manage to achieve such a big change!

Maybe I should buy some [shoplink 301697 ebay]Zenit stuff on eBay[/shoplink] and wait until the price rises? :)

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via Petapixel via Photorumors

New details about the Canon 250 Megapixel APS-H sensor

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We got some additional technical details about that crazy Canon 250 Megapixel APS-H sensor presented by Canon on September 7. Harvest Imaging reports from the ISSCC meeting:

Hirofumi Totsuka of Canon presented a 250 Mpixel APS-H size imager : 1.5 um pixel pitch (4 sharing) made in 0.13 um technology node. The device is consuming 1.97 W at full resolution 5fps. An interesting build-in feature of this sensor is the following : ALL pixel signals are converted by column SS-ADCs with a single ramp, but in front of the ADC, each column has its own PGA that can be switched to 4x or 1x gain, depending on the signal level. So when the pixels are sampled, a first check is done to look whether the signal is above or below a particular reference level, and then the right gain of the PGA is set to 1x or 4x. Simple method, but I think that the issues pop up in the reconstruction of the signal at the cross-over point between the two settings of the PGA.

The camera prototype used to fit the new sensor was a mirrorless box. Wondering if Canon is going to use that sensor in a future “serious” mirrorless camera.

Two unusual Sony camera stories: A7s sent up to 91,000 feet. 16-50mm teardown.

A group of friends launched a stratospheric balloon with five cameras from the Presidio in San Francisco, capturing sweeping views of the Bay Area. The balloon traveled south along the Pacific coast, bursts at an altitude of 91,470 ft, and lands near Salinas, over 100 miles away. The camera they used to shot these images were a Sony A7s.

And if something doesn’t work don’t get angry and make a viral video out of it: Dave Jones (EEVblog) “opened” his faulty 16-50mm OSS E-mount lens and shows us what’s inside:

New High End fixed lens Nikon compact cameras

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Nikon is likely going to try to compete against the Sony RX series by launching new high-end compact can fixed lens cameras at the CP+ show (End of February). Nikonrumors reports there will be three versions of such cameras (unclear what the sensor size will be). These will be the equivalent focal lengths:

• Wide angle: 18-50mm f/1.8-2.8
• Normal range: 24-80mm f/1.8-2.8
• Superzoom: 24-500mm f/2.8-5.6

I am pretty sure the 24-500mm version has a 1 inch sensor. If it’s APS-C I will become a priest :)