Introducing the ultra-high sensitivity 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor – Canon EXPO Paris 2015

Canon Expo Paris posted a full hd video from glowworms in a cave New Zealand, they are not visible to the humans eye – very impressive! It has been taken with the ME20F-SH camera that will be released in December.
The conclusion at 01:32 min. demonstrates, the Professional camcorder Canon XA25 see only a light fluoresce with his highest 30db gain.
At 02:13 min. is the world first real time video from the worms in utter darkness, in the deep from the cave.
At 03:03 min. the camera can also capture the milky way in the sky in real time.

 

Source: CanonWatch. BBC video also on CanonWatch.

Samsung NX500 DxO sensor reviewed: “New leader for hybrid APS-C sensor image quality”.

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DxOmark tested the NX500 sensor and the results are impressive! It beats the previous leader the Sony A6000 by 5 points! Samsung really achieved some great results with their latest generation sensor. Beating Sony means beating the best sensor maker to date. I am now wondering if a performance like that will be enough to make the NX system attractive. Seems like Samsung has an “image problem” among the photographers community.

Mitakon to launch the world’s fastest 135mm f/1.4 Full Frame lens!

Zyoptics (also known as Mitakon) posted those images of their 135mm f/1.4 Speedmaster Full Frame lens! They did not specify when the lens will be launched and in what mount it will be available. On those pictures you can see it will certainly come for Canon EF mount. The Sony may use an adapter or a proper E-mount version of the lens. We don’t know yet. All current Speedmasters are sold for Canon-Nikon and Sony E-mount (Click here to see them on eBay).

I made a quick check and the fastest Full Frame lens I found is the Zeiss 135mm f/1.8 (Click here). If I am correct this should make the new Speedmaster the new fastest 135mm FF lens out there!

More images of the lens (Click on it to enlarge):

Low resolution image samples:

As soon as I have more info about the lens I will let you know!

Source: Weibo (via Xjrumo).

Mirrorless news roundup.


The timelapse is complete. 8000+ frames, 100GB of images, over 10 hours of shooting and 2 hours of render. The mountain and the milky way (SonyAlphaForum)

Speedmaster 25mm lens review by Photobyrichard.com.
2 months in Cold Wilderness with A7R (SonyAlphaForum).
Voigtländer zoomar – el primer objetivo zoom (DSLRmagazine).
PIX2015 – Sony Alpha 7R II Technology at the Sony Booth by Dpreview.
a7r II vs 5DsR Thermal noise test by Marcio Cabral.
Fujifilm X-T1 Versus Olympus E-M1 Image File Sizes (Thewanderinglensman).
Panasonic Lumix FZ300: análisis (Quesabesde).
Lensbaby velvet 56mm f1.6 lens review (Diyphotography).

Look at that video: Canon 250 megapixel camera with 800mm lens!

You remember that 250MP prototype Camera from Canon? On that video you can see why the hell that crazy Megapixel number matters! The tester sent me (And Also CanonWatch) that text:

The test with the 800mm lens is impressive!
A advertising on an hotel can read with the 800mm on top from 15km distance!
An human can see from 3km distance.
A big building can see from a distance 20-25 km with a normal lens!
And canon can stabilize the ,,fata morgana effect” (see at 2:04 min) from hot rising air. Canon call it ,,removal Turbulence”.

Cool!

Sony could launch an FE camera with 100+ Megapixels!

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Forget it guys. The Megapixel war will never be over! Just one month after the Canon 120 Megapixel prototype camera presentation Sony started the marketing counter offensive. Sony Manager Kimio reported at Amateur Photographer:

“If the customer needs 100-million pixels, if the customer needs more than 100-million pixels, we will create such kind of a product. Right now we don’t get a strong demand from the customers for this.”

I guess as soon Canon released their 120MP DSLR Sony will also launch a new A7rmarkIII with similar resolution.