Canon Inc. announced that it will launch a second version of the EOS M-series mirrorless interchangeable lens system camera, the EOS M2 by mid December 2013. The model has an autofocus 2.3 times faster than the preceding model. The new model features a APS-C 18 MP CMOS sensor, DIGIC 5 image processing engine, ISO sensitivity up to 12800 which can be extended to 25600, burst … [Read more...]
Photographer captures wedding using Lumia 1020
Joy Marie Smallwood, celebrity and destinations wedding photographer, for the first time captured a real wedding using a Smartphone – the Nokia Lumia 1020, which has a 41MP sensor. The couple, Chris and Crista’s wedding took place at Capella Pedregal in Cabo, Mexico. “The quality of the photos we took at the Cabo wedding using the Lumia 1020 were crisp with great depth of … [Read more...]
Samyang to launch 10mm f/2.8 lens
Samyang announced a 10mm f/2.8 ED AS NCS SC lens. It is a wide-angle manual focus prime for APS-C format cameras and has nano crystal coating to cope with light transmission and internal reflections. The lens is ideal for indoor, architecture and landscape photography. It provides a field of view of up to 109.5 degrees and a rectilinear image mapping function. Due to its fast … [Read more...]
January 2014 – Picture of the Month
We are sure that all of you have a few pictures that you think are prize worthy. It happens very often that you don’t know where to send the image that could put a feather in your cap. If you have such images (we’re sure you have many!), send us ONE such horizontal image. If it qualifies, we shall publish it as a double-spread. a. You have to guarantee that the picture was … [Read more...]
Panasonic to Sell Three Chip Plants to TowerJazz
Panasonic plans to sell three semi-conductor plants in Japan to Israeli chipmaker TowerJazz. It will spin off the domestic plants into a new company by this fiscal year and under a tentative agreement reached recently, sell a majority stake in the new firm to TowerJazz. The factories located in Toyama and Niigata perform mostly front-end steps, such as forming circuits on … [Read more...]
