On December 15, 2014, Transcend Information Inc. launched the 256GB large capacity SDXC UHS-I cards. They offer full support for the Ultra High Speed Class 3 (U3) specifi cation, and read and write speeds of up to 95MB/s and 60MB/s. In devices that do not support the UHS-I specifi cation, Transcend’s SDXC UHS-I U3 cards off er constant write speeds of at least 10MB/s (SD Speed … [Read more...]

Panasonic reported that it posted a 21% year-on-year gain in operating profit for the first half of the fiscal year, ending on September 20, 2014, to 177 billion Yen on a total revenue of 3.723 trillion Yen, almost even from the previous year’s revenue of 3.706 trillion Yen. Net profit fell by 52% to 80.9 billion Yen from 169.3 billion Yen from a year earlier. The company … [Read more...]

On December 16, 2014, Huawei announced the Honor 6 Plus Smartphone in its Honor series line-up, which features three 8 MP cameras. One serves as a front camera, and the other two are placed side-by-side on the back side of the phone. The dual back cameras allow refocussing of previously captured images. Huawei says that the look of the images can be adjusted to resemble … [Read more...]

Tamron Co. said their sales for the first 9 months of fiscal 2014, ending on September 30 rose by 5.1% year-on-year to 51.12 billion Yen and profit in operation rose from 12.4% to 4.348 billion Yen. The net profit rose by 9.1% to 2.74 billion Yen. In the midst of the shrinking interchangeable lens market as a whole, the company posted a 7% gain in this segment to 36.675 … [Read more...]

JVC Kenwood announced that it will launch the GYHM200, a new compact and lightweight 4K camcorder to record images on flash memory cards, for professionals. The GY-HM200 will be available from late February 2015. The camcorder features a 12.4 MP 1/2.3-inch Type backilluminated CMOS sensor, and the newly developed 12x (29.5-354mm f/1.2 in 35mm format) optical zoom lens. The … [Read more...]