Toshio Murai, MD, Olympus India lights the traditional lamp Olympus Imaging announced the opening of its first Level IV Master Service Centre in India. Located at its headquarter in Mumbai, the Master Service Center is designed as per international standards to offer after sales services for all Olympus Imaging equipment. The new Level IV Master Service Center is equipped … [Read more...]
Fujifilm releases FinePix F660 EXR
Building on the success of FinePix F600, Fujifilm India Pvt. Ltd., announced the launch of the FinePix F660 EXR, a low light, digital zoom compact camera. The F660 features a 1/2-inch Type, 16 mega-pixel EXR CMOS sensor. It also features a 15x optical zoom. The camera is priced at Rs.18,999.“The FinePix F660EXR’s brilliance is not limited to still photography; the camera … [Read more...]
Sony launches new Cyber-shot cameras
Mr. Masaru Tamagawa, MD Sony India, at the Cybershot press conferenceSony India reinforces its No.1 position in the digital still camera market with an aim to capture a very dominant 45% share in the FY12. Sony India witnessed a tremendous growth rate of 45% in FY11, beating the industry growth rate of 40% , and is therefore very confident of achieving this market share. … [Read more...]
Canon Posts 11% gain in net profit for Q1
Canon announced that its group net profit for the first quarter (Jan-March) of the current fiscal year rose 11% to 61.5 billion yen (US768.8 M) on slightly declined sales of 829.2 billion yen (UD$10.36 B). Operating profit gained a 0.2% to 82.6 billion yen (US$1.03 B). In addition, a fall in the selling price of compact D-cams resulted in losing profit of 12.3 billion yen. … [Read more...]
Tidbits-Konica
The name ‘Konica’ is a shortened version of Konishiroku Photo Industry Co.Ltd., Japan. Konishiroku was the world’s oldest photo manufacturer, even older than Kodak and was founded in 1873 to make photo-sensitive materials. It subsequently started making cameras and after the second world war, came out with a line of excellent rangefinder cameras and very good SLRs.The … [Read more...]

