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As I usually do, I stayed on in Japan after this year's CP+ trade show, and while there had a chance to visit Olympus' research and development headquarters in Hachioji where I sat down with some of their engineers. My interview at CP+ itself with Shigemi Sugimoto-san, Head of Olympus' Imaging Business Unit, was...
Recently, I had the opportunity to meet with executives from Ricoh -- the company behind the Pentax brand -- alongside the CP+ tradeshow in Tokyo. Speaking on behalf of both brands were Ricoh Co. Ltd.'s Takashi Arai of the Product Planning Department, Product Development Center, Smart Vision Business Group; Hiroki...
Recently, I had the chance to speak with Sigma's CEO, Kazuto Yamaki, alongside the CP+ tradeshow in Tokyo. Yamaki-san is always a favorite interview subject of mine, because as the head of a family-owned company, its his hand on the tiller, and so his decisions that dictate the company's future products and...
We had a chance recently to speak with four top executives from Canon's Image Communication Business Operations group, the division responsible for all of Canon's photographic products. I probed into Canon's focus on photography in the face of its expansion into many related businesses. Does their significant...
I had a chance to sit down with a group of top Nikon executives and engineering managers last month, as part of my yearly pilgrimage to Yokohama, Japan for the annual CP+ trade show. We talked about lens design and how it's impacted by the new Z-mount -- we're frankly amazed by their new 14-30mm f/4 lens, both for...
I had a chance to sit down with Kenji Tanaka from Sony, as part of my usual round of interviews at this year's CP+ 2019 trade show in Yokohama. Tanaka-san is the Senior General Manager of Business Unit 1 of Sony Imaging Products and Solutions Inc's Digital Imaging Group. That's a typically Japanese-business-card...
I had a chance to sit down with two top Fujifilm execs (Toshihisa Iida and Makoto Oishi) at the recent CP+ 2019 show in Yokohama, Japan, to ask them about everything from the state of the industry to my usual tech-geeky questions about underlying technology. I've been wanting to write about some of the details of...
A lot of readers (and our own staff!) have been wondering what's up with Olympus' E-M5 line, given how long it's been since its last update. We got to talk with senior Olympus management at the CP+ 2019 show in Yokohama, Japan yesterday, and not only learned the likely reason for this, but also that the company is ...
Canon's legendary Chairman Fujio Mitarai went on record recently, saying that he expected interchangeable-lens camera sales to fall by half over the next two years. As a result, he would be prioritizing Canon's R&D efforts on the industrial and medical sectors.
As we approach the end of another CP+ camera expo in Yokohama, Japan, I thought it would be fun to share a few of the unique items, concept cameras and other products that I happened to stumble upon while roaming the show floor. Among hands-on reports, gallery images and new product announcements, here's a chance to...
During the CP+ show here in Yokohama, we had a chance to sit down with Fujifilm executives and get up close and personal with the new Fuji GFX 100, Fujifilm's upcoming flagship GFX model that sports a 100-megapixel sensor. Although final details and full technical specifications are still unknown at this time, what we do...
Nikon continues to expand their lens offerings for their new Z Series cameras, first announcing the ultra-wide Z 14-30mm f/4 S zoom back at CES and then just a few weeks ago, debuting the must-have, work-horse zoom, the Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S. And we can't forget the still forthcoming Z 58mm f/0.95 Noct prime that was...
Just yesterday, I was only able to get a brief hands-on look at the new Ricoh GR III, and yet today, I was able to get a full-production sample to take around town here in Yokohama! Over in our Ricoh GR III Gallery, you can get a first look at real-world image quality from...
Here at the CP+ expo in Japan Ricoh has a lot of interesting goodies to show off, one of which being the very popular Ricoh GR III compact camera. As one of the first booths I came across in my show floor wanderings this morning, I not only jumped in line to get some hands-on time with the updated GR camera, but I also...
UPDATE: 10/05/2020 - Two years after its initial unveiling, the Zeiss ZX1 is now finally available for pre-order, with a retail price of US$6,000.
Back at Photokina 2018, Zeiss, the brand renowned for their lenses, actually unveiled a new camera, and a rather unique one at that. The Zeiss ZX1 sports an all-new 37MP...
By the end of 2018, Sony had pretty much covered the basic needs of photographers with their 30 full-frame FE lenses. It could even be argued that they had done this much earlier, but the 24mm f/1.4 really did put a nice cap on their work over the last several years....
Long zoom fans will be happy to hear that Nikon is continuing to stock the pond with new superzoom and travel zoom offerings debuting today ahead of the CP+ trade show in Yokohama. The Coolpix A1000 is a 35x compact travel zoom, while the Coolpix B600 packs a whopping 60x into a rather sleek new superzoom package.
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And just like that, the number of confirmed L-Mount lenses has greatly increased. Sigma has announced that they will release 11 L-Mount versions of their current Art series of prime lenses. These full-frame lenses are fully compatible with AF-C, in-camera image stabilization and in-camera aberration correction and in...
A little over five years ago, Ricoh first took its camera line in a new direction with the launch of the original, VR-friendly Ricoh Theta. At a push of a button (or the prompting of your smartphone) this interesting twin-lensed camera could capture the world around you in its full, 360-degree panoramic...
With the CP+ tradeshow in Japan just around the corner, Ricoh has today made news on several fronts. Firstly, the company has revealed two closely-related new point-and-shoot models, one aimed at consumers and the other at industrial usage. Secondly, it has finally announced pricing and availability -- not to...