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Rounding out our CP+ 2016 interview series, IR publisher and founder Dave Etchells recently had the privilege of meeting with several senior executives from Ricoh Imaging Company Ltd., the division responsible for creating Ricoh's Pentax and self-branded cameras and lenses. Taking part in the interview were Shinobu...
Imaging Resource founder and publisher Dave Etchells was fortunate to be able to sit down recently with several senior executives from the Imaging Business Unit at Nikon Corp., which is responsible for producing the company's cameras and lenses. On hand to answer Dave's questions were Tetsuya Yamamoto, Corporate Vice...
IR Founder and Publisher Dave Etchells recently got a chance to sit down with Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki at the CP+ 2016 show in Yokohama, Japan. Topics for discussion included the company's then just-announced mirrorless camera models, what their plans looked like for f/1.8 zooms (following their amazing 18-35mm...
Imaging Resource founder and Publisher Dave Etchells had the opportunity to sit down with Toshihisa Iida and Makoto Oishi of Fujifilm Corporation's Optical Devices & Electronic Imaging Products Division (the division responsible for producing their cameras and lenses) at the CP+ 2016 show in Yokohama, Japan last month. Mr. Iida is the General...
Imaging Resource founder and Publisher Dave Etchells had a chance to sit down with Masamichi Handa and Toshiyuki Terada of Olympus Corporation's Imaging Business Unit (the division responsible for producing their cameras and lenses) at the recent CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan. Mr. Handa is the Executive Officer and...
Sigma continues to announce new products during this week's CP+ show in Japan. In addition to a pair of new lenses and new mirrorless cameras earlier this week, Sigma has also announced a new EF-630 electronic flash.
The new, more powerful flash includes numerous reported performance improvements over the Sigma EF-610 flash, including rear curtain...
Sigma announced today their first-ever mirrorless camera...well, two mirrorless cameras, actually. The pair, named sd Quattro and sd Quattro H, share an identical design but utilize two different-sized sensors, with the former utilizing an APS-C sensor and the latter featuring a new, larger APS-H sensor.
These cameras utilize layered Foveon X3...
Panasonic has announced this evening a new zoom lens for their Lumix G line of Micro Four Thirds cameras. The Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. Power O.I.S. lens provides a 5x zoom range and is targeted for shooting a wide variety of situations, such as wide-angle landscape shots and portraits. While featuring the same aperture range...
The party continues at Ricoh this week: Just seven days after launching its limited-edition Ricoh GR II Silver Edition camera in celebration of the company's 80th anniversary, it has followed up with yet another limited-edition model and a new action camera, for good measure.
This time around, though, it's not a...
The engineers and designers over at Sigma have once again pulled out all the stops to create some truly unique lens products, including a brand new Art-series lens, the 50-100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art. Yes, an f/1.8 telephoto zoom! Also on the docket is a brand new 30mm f/1.4 Contemporary lens, not for DSLR cameras though, but...
With the simultaneous launch of its J1 and V1 interchangeable-lens cameras back in late 2011, Nikon became the first company to use a 1"-type sensor -- dubbed the "CX-format" in Nikon parlance -- in a mass-market camera. Although the Nikon 1-series has struggled to compete against larger-sensored mirrorless rivals, the...
Nikon has announced three new additions to their Coolpix camera line, the Nikon B700 superzoom, the Nikon B500 superzoom, and the Nikon A900 compact travel zoom. All three cameras include Nikon's new SnapBridge wireless connectivity, which was recently announced in conjunction with the Nikon D500 DSLR at CES last month.
Nikon SnapBridge allows...
Tamron has announced two new lenses for full-frame cameras, the SP 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD and the SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD 1:1 Macro. In addition to these two lenses, Tamron has also announced the TAP-in Console accessory that allows users to update the firmware and customize setups for selected Tamron lenses.
Tamron SP 85mm f/1.8 Di VC USD
The SP...
The introduction of Dual Pixel CMOS AF in the Canon 70D was a game-changer for DSLR video: no hunting or wobble during focusing; quick and accurate AF with no front- or back-focusing issues; and smooth, adjustable, cinematic focusing for video. This heavily video-focused DSLR was certainly an interesting direction to...
Canon has launched two new PowerShot cameras that are designed to provide high performance in compact bodies for both amateur and professional photographers alike. The new Canon G7X Mark II and Canon SX720 HS cameras each bring something new and distinct to the PowerShot line.
The Canon G7X II includes the same 1"-type 20.1-megapixel CMOS sensor...
Pentaxians, your patience has just paid off in spades! Ricoh Imaging, the company behind the Pentax brand name, has today officially announced its upcoming, full-frame Pentax K-1 DSLR -- and it looks to be a mighty impressive debut.
Based around a 36.4-megapixel full-frame sensor, the Pentax K-1 sports a...
Last summer, Ricoh launched a new model for its GR camera series, a cult-favorite since the days of photographic film. The Ricoh GR II has since been issued in two limited-edition kits, both of which have already sold out. If you've been wanting to show off your fashion sense by laying your hands on one of these...
Following up on the immensely popular Sony A6000, the new A6300 is now available for preorder from both Adorama and B&H, along with two of new G Master lenses, the FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM and FE 85mm f/1.4 GM.
Retailing for just under $1000 in a body-only configuration and for around $1150 with a Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS Zoom lens, the A6300 packs a...
Following up on the Olympus SH-2, Olympus has announced its successor, the SH-3, in Japan.
The Olympus Stylus SH-3 utilizes the same 1/2.3" 16-megapixel CMOS sensor found in the SH-2, along with the same 24x optical zoom 25-600mm f/3.0-6.9 equivalent built-in lens. Internally, not much has changed from the SH-2, although the SH-3 can now record 4K...
Today, Sony held a press event in New York to launch a healthy selection of new camera gear. We streamed the event live, taking you straight to the heart of the event for the full story. (The live stream might now be over, but you can give yourself a quick recap courtesy of our video archive.)
New products...