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2008 PMA

Sony A900 gets more official

by Patrick on February 1, 2008

24.8 megapixels and full frame
Gee, I go to NYC for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose. It seems like only a couple of days ago I said something about how the Sony sensor announcement might anticipate an A900 announcement at PMA, and lo and behold what do I come home to find?
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Canon Rumors

by Patrick on January 26, 2008

Canon’s Not Done Yet
In the “what my canon sales rep told me” class of rumors, which by all accounts are absolutely the most reliable…we have this from DPR forum member “d smith”:
I also asked if everything I had received in a previous email was all that was being announced at PMA, I then added, “but [...]

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With Canon’s announcement Wednesday of it’s new camera and lens lineup, it would appear very unlikely that I’ll be getting a chance to see a replacement for the EOS 5D. While I suppose there is a tiny shred of hope that Canon might say something at the actual PMA, their history would indicated this unlikely.
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Spotted by alert DPR forum member “wilf”, this screen grab from Sony Style Taiwan would seem to reveal to product names not currently in the Sony DSLR lineup, the A300 and A350. While there have been several rumors of a A300, this is the first I’ve heard of  the A350. Sadly, no mention of the [...]

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First legitimate look at the Pentax K20D. Full Specs and Info after the break…

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DPR forum member and PMA member caught an interesting detail on Sony’s inventory sheet for the PMA show. Take a look at the last line there of this excerpt from Sony’s list:
# Photo/Digital Retail Products - Accessory Merchandise - Lenses, Adapters, Converters, Caps, Hoods
# Photo/Digital Retail Products - Accessory Merchandise - Tripods, Heads and Monopods
# [...]

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According to DPR forum member (and pentaxforums.com member too, if I’m not mistaken) codiac2600, the image quality on a wide range of photos shown to him by another presumed beta-tester are the: “best images I’ve seen from an APS-C camera period…”. He added:
in terms of sharpness, rendering, IQ, whitebalance, noise levels, ect. I would [...]

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If you wondering what it’s like to shoot and handle the new Pentax K20D, run, don’t walk to the pentaxforums.com post My Day with the K..D courtesy beta-tester benjikan. Benjikan is obviously under NDA, but still lets manages to give some of his first impressions, and they sound very, very good.
swims comfortably in the waters [...]

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There may not be a 5D Mark II announcement but if Robert Westin is to be believed, Canon will announce new products in a pre-PMA release on Jan. 24, 2008. Expected cameras to be announced are the Canon 5D replacement, possibly to be called the 7D, and a 450D/Rebel XTi replacement. It is very possible [...]

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More on those K20D Specifications

by Patrick on January 21, 2008

Are the specifications for the Pentax K20D real? We can’t be sure, but we don’t see any balking from NDA’s (yet) in the forums. In the meantime we have a couple of interesting points for you.
As mentioned before, the specifications say 15.1 megapixels. Taking into account actual pixels versus effective pixels, this is right on [...]

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