Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM lens announced, Price, Specs, Where to Buy

Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM len 3

You might think the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM lens is just another rumors talked about early today. While a breaking news from Sigma that they confirmed the this super f/1.8 zoom lens. Now this 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens is just a new lens at Sigma’s Art line.

Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM lens now officially announced, and is designed for APS-C DSLRs.
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Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS Lens Price, Specs, Where to Buy

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS Lens

Fujifilm has officially announced the Fujifilm XF 55-200mm F3.5-F4.8 R LM OIS telephoto zoom for its X system of mirrorless cameras. Headline features include optical image stabilisation with a claimed 4.5 stops benefit, dual linear stepper motors for focusing, all-metal barrel construction, and premium optics. The lens also features an aperture ring like that on the company’s XF 18-55mm zoom.
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Ricoh GR announced, Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Ricoh GR APS-C camera

Pentax-Ricoh has announced the much rumored and leaked Ricoh GR, a 16.2MP APS-C sensor enthusiast compact camera. The GR continues on from Ricoh’s GR Digital series of high-end, fixed-lens models, gaining a much larger sensor but continuing to offer a 28mm equivalent field of view, now with an F2.8 maximum aperture. It also retains the GRD IV’s high-res 1.2m dot LCD and a range of photographer friendly functions.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6 Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6

Panasonic has announced the Lumix DMC-GF6 – a 16MP entry-level mirrorless camera with Wi-Fi. Like many of its competitors it has a capacitive touchscreen, that can tilt both downwards and upwards to face forwards for self-portraits. It gains a compact-camera style zoom lever around the shutter release that can alternatively be used to set exposure compensation, and an exposure mode dial on the top plate. It’s also the first interchangeable lens camera with Near Field Communication (NFC) that allows setup of Wi-Fi connections with compatible smartphones and tablets, simply by tapping the devices together. Movie recording is available at 1080p 30 in either MP4 or AVCHD format.

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Blackmagic Production Camera 4K Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Blackmagic Production Camera 4K

Blackmagic Design has announced the Production Camera 4K, a Super-35 format, 4K-capable camera with global shutter for smooth panning and image motion. It can capture footage in Apple ProRes 422 HQ or losslessly compressed CinemaDNG Raw – promising 12-stops of dynamic range. The camera is built around a Canon EF mount and an internal SSD recorder to cope with the data rates.

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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Blackmagic Design has announced a pocket-sized 1080p movie camera capable of 422 ProRes capture with promises of lossless CinemaDNG to be added via firmware. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera uses a Super 16 imaging area (around 12.5 x 7.4mm – essentially a 16:9 crop of a 1″ sensor – a format for which high-speed sensors are available), and an ‘active’ Micro Four Thirds lens mount, giving full aperture control of native lenses. The camera can capture footage in Apple’s 10-bit 4:2:2 ProRes format Blackmagic promising to add the open, lossless CinemaDNG Raw standard later.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6 images, specs, price leaked !

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6

Techradar just posted a hands-on review(now removed) of Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6, from the source, we find that Panasonic GF6 will support NFC, Wi-Fi, built-in flash and more.

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Canon XA20, XA25, HF G30 HD Camcorders Price, Specs, Where to Buy

Canon XA25 HD Professional Camcorder
Canon XA25 HD Professional Camcorder

Canon just announced three new handheld video HD Camcorder range with three compact models for professionals and video enthusiasts. Two new professional X-series models, the Canon XA20 HD Professional Camcorder and Canon XA25 HD Professional Camcorder, combine a powerful, all-new imaging system with professional audio and Wi-Fi connectivity in a “versatile, compact package that fits neatly in the palm of a hand,” the company says. The Canon XA25 additionally features HD-SDI output offering the high capacity, uncompressed connectivity useful for many broadcast applications. The enthusiast-focussed Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder comes with the same lens (with “optical intelligent IS”), OLED touchscreen and HD CMOS PRO sensor, Wi-Fi connectivity and full manual controls but lacks the XLR inputs and built-in infrared lamp of the XA models.

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Fujifilm FinePix S8400W Price, Specs, Release Date, Where to Buy

Fujifilm FinePix S8400W

Fujifilm Finepix S8400W has just announced. It features a 16MP BSI-CMOS sensor, 3 inch 460K dot LCD and an electronic viewfinder. The S8400W records 1080i60 video alongside stereo audio, and offers 10 fps continuous shooting speeds, 0.3 second auto-focus speed and manual exposure modes. Users can share images wirelessly via the ‘Fujifilm Camera Application’ app for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.

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