Sigma DP1 hands-on
- Brand: Sigma
- Subject: Digital Cameras
- Category: Camera Previews
During our meeting with Kazuto Yamaki, Chief Operating Officer, from Sigma Japan, I had the opportunity to touch and try the new Sigma DP digital compact camera. Although the status of the Sigma DP1 is pre-pre-pre-production, in the words of Kazuto Yamaki, we can already share our thoughts with you based on this model. The Sigma DP1 is compact and is basically similar to ordinary compact camera models. However the big difference between an ordinary compact camera and the Sigma DP1 is its image sensor.
Sony Cybershot DSC T50 naked
- Brand: Sony
- Subject: Digital Cameras
- Category: Digital Cameras
Of course Sony was presented at the Photokina show, but actually did not had much news to unveil. The new Sony T50 was introduced in September 2006 and features a 1/2.5-inch 7.2 Megapixel Super HAD CCD image sensor. This little digital compact camera incorporates a bunch of gyro sensors to stabilize any camera shaking caused by photographing in dim lit conditions of with long shutter speeds and telephotographing.
SanDisk Iceland photo competition
- Brand: SanDisk
- Subject: Corporate
- Category: Photo Contest
While we were visiting the SanDisk booth in Hall 6 of the Photokina event and were informed by Tanya Chuang, SanDisk’s senior retail product marketing manager, about the latest Extreme III 12 and 16GB CompactFlash and the new Ultra II SDHC flash memory cards we were enjoying the live performance of some street dancers. With the help of a DJ the dancers started to show their moves and the audience were caught by the act.
Hoodman accessories
- Brand: Hoodman
- Subject: Accessories
- Category: Accessories
While meeting and greeting the flash memory contacts I ran into the guys from Hoodman USA. Hoodman is offering all kind of innovative and practical digital camera and camcorder solutions. The Hoodman products are sold worldwide and are used by amateurs and professionals. Some of the new Hoodman accessories are the Hoodman H-RAV, a universal right angle viewer, and the Hoodman HoodLoupe Professional.
Leica D SUMMILUX 25mm ASPH lens
- Brand: Leica
- Subject: SLR Lenses
- Category: Fixed Focal Lenses
During our meeting with mister Suguru Takamatsu, Coordi-nator Marketing Team Overseas Sales & Marketing Group and Ichiro Kitao, Product Planning Manager, from Panasonic we had a little hands-on with the new Leica D SUMMILUX 25mm f1.4 ASPH lens. The new Leica lens incorporates a large total large total of 10 lens elements in 9 groups, including a large-diameter aspherical lens. The bright standard f/1.4 lens provides a superb high-quality optical performance. The large diameter front lens ensures sufficient peripheral light levels, and a large-diameter front aspherical lens reduces light degradation all the way to the lens periphery. The result is high resolution and absolutely minimum lens distortion.
Fujifilm Image Intelligence
- Brand: Fujifilm
- Subject: Corporate
- Category: Source of Information
Personally I found the huge booth of Fujifilm was a big success as to explaining the visitor the advantages of a Fujifilm digital camera and why you just need to have one. Fujifilm has several divisions targeting a diverse range of market segments; medical imaging, professional graphic arts, professional and amateur consumer photography, and more. Each of those segments uses innovative techniques to bring high quality solutions to their clients. At the Fujifilm booth there was a demonstration of what can be a result of bringing those innovations from various segments together…
DIWA awarded Pro 815 at Photokina
The Samsung booth drew quit a lot of attention and especially the new NV-series were quite appealing to a lot of the visitors. Of course the new 10 Megapixel Samsung GX10 made people curious and a lot of them wanted to find out what the deal is between Samsung and Pentax. Somehow it surprised me to see that Samsung did not introduce a real 100% Samsung-only DSLR. This new model seems to be the first end-result of the cooperation between Samsung and Pentax and we were promised that we may expect more to come…
Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS naked
- Brand: Canon
- Subject: Digital Cameras
- Category: Digital Cameras
The large Canon booth showcased their entire digital imaging solutions to the public. And it is impressive to see how one manufacturer like Canon is able to offer so many solutions to photographing, printing, scanning, storing, sharing, etc. Canon's series of digital cameras, especially their Digital IXUS line-up, is very popular. Some weeks ago we were invited to come to London where Canon celebrated ten years of IXUS. Imagine, ten years of IXUS (analogue and digital) resulted into 33 million sold Canon IXUS cameras.
