Pentax continues to surprise, this time with the announcement of the K-01 (pronounced ‘Kay-zero-one’). The K-01 is a compact system camera* with 16 Mpixel sensor, so that is not the big surprise. The surprise is that Pentax did not design a new and smaller lens mount, and did not decrease the lens-to-sensor distance compared to [...]
Michihiro Yamaki, founder and CEO of Sigma Corporation, has died at the age of 78. Michihiro Yamaki was a true industry leader, who started the third-party lens industry. I met Mr. Yamaki on several occasions, usually when he was in Germany at Photokina. Our first meeting was in Japan however, when I visited the Sigma [...]
Some of my photographs have been for sale as fine art prints, on photographic paper, fine art paper or canvas. They are produced by Fine Art America, but that makes it inconvenient for Europeans, who pay rather high shippings costs, especially for framed prints. I’m happy that I now have [...]
An interesting series of photos have been published on the web, showing a Japanese man testing the new Canon 200-400mm 1.4x Extender lens and the new Canon 4.0/600mm lens. The photos also show two different cameras. One of the cameras is clearly an EOS 1D series body, probably the new EOS 1D X, [...]
Corel has introduced AfterShot Pro, which is basically just a rebranded version of Bibble Pro. Corel bought Bibble some time ago, so this was obviously coming. Bibble has always been a special kind of RAW-converter, because it’s the only one that allows plug-ins into the RAW workflow itself. In programs like Apple Aperture and [...]
Today Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. It’s incredible to see how this once so powerful company did everything wrong it possibly could do wrong, while direct competitor Fujifilm managed to do so well facing the same problems. There is an interesting story in the Economist about the difference in approach. The [...]
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