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...]

Sony announced a new model in the A7 series—a full-frame mirrorless interchangeable lens system camera—the A7 II, which will be available in Japan from December 15. This camera features the world’s first 5-axis sensor-shift image stabilization system in a full-frame ILC, to compensate for yaw, pitch, roll and vertical and horizontal motion. Sony says it will have 4.5 stops … [Read more...]