Nikon established Nikon Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in Singapore on June 3d, 2013, as its new financial  headquarters for Asia and Oceania. Both the regions witnessed growth in business opportunities, making  them important for Nikon. The new company will be headed by Norio Hashizume. Nikon plans to transfer its  sales and marketing operations from Hong Kong to Singapore by October … [Read more...]

Epson announced that it had been named the Official Global Partner of the 2013 Nature’s Best Photography  Windland Smith Rice International Awards Exhibition. The exhibition, hosted at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., features winners chosen from more than 20,000 entries  submitted by photographers from over 46 countries worldwide to the … [Read more...]

Canon announced the EOS 70D, a mid-range D-SLR for photography enthusiasts. The camera comes  equipped with Canon’s brand new 20.2 MP ‘Dual Pixel CMOS AF’ sensor, which allows every effective pixel to perform imaging as well as AF functions through independent dedicated photodiodes, vastly improving AF performance in Live View and Video Mode. The camera also contains the … [Read more...]

Canon Inc. recently announced that it had developed a new autofocus technology for the EOS 70D D-SLR  camera. Called ‘Dual Pixel CMOS AF’ technology, it employs a CMOS sensor where all the effective pixels  are able to perform imaging as well as phase-detection AF simultaneously. Each individual pixel uses two independent photodiodes, which produce signals that can be used for … [Read more...]

Sony revealed its newest full-frame premium compact camera, the Cybershot RX1R. The camera is exactly the same in terms of functionality and operation as Sony’s RX1 that has seen excellent sales since its launch last year; the only difference is that the RX1R has no antialiasing filter. Sony hopes that this will provide even better resolution than the RX1, with the trade-off of … [Read more...]