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Canon U.S.A. Announces World’s Smallest And Lightest DSLR Camera

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New EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera Fuses Advanced Image Quality and Features into an Ultra-Portable Body

MELVILLE, N.Y., March 21, 2013 – Continuing the quest to deliver superb product innovations, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the world’s smallest and lightest DSLR* camera: the EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera. It features a newly developed 18.0-megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor and high-performance DIGIC 5 Image Processor for exceptional image quality and speed. With its combination of lightweight size, ease of use and outstanding image quality, the EOS Rebel SL1 is perfect for users looking for the ideal camera to bring sightseeing on vacation or to capture the everyday.

“The EOS Rebel SL1 Digital SLR Camera represents a new era in DSLR versatility: ultra-portable, full-featured DSLR cameras,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon U.S.A. “The EOS Rebel SL1 combines the high speed, high image quality and expanded shooting range of a DSLR camera, with the easy and fun usability of a point-and-shoot camera.”

Advanced Image Quality in a Compact Body

As the world’s smallest and lightest DSLR, the new camera body is 4.6″ (w) x 3.57″ (h) x 2.74″ (d), and weighs only 14.36 oz.** In comparison, the EOS Rebel SL1 is approximately 25 percent smaller and 28 percent lighter than the EOS Rebel T4i digital camera.

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Samsung’s mirrorless NX1100 digital camera revealed in user manual

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By: Brittany Hillen, Mar 7th 2013 (http://www.slashgear.com)

Last month, rumors surfaced that Samsung would be releasing a mirrorless NX1100 digital camera in the near future. Those rumors were just substantiated by Samsung itself, which posted a manual for the camera on its website ahead of the camera’s official unveiling, giving us a detailed look into its specs and particulars. Check out a picture of the device after the jump.

New Samsung NX1100 Digital Camera

New Samsung NX1100 Digital Camera

According to the manual, the Samsung NX1100 features a 21.6-megapixel CMOS sensor and a 3-inch TFT LCD display with VGA resolution. Focus is comprised of contrast auto focus, as well as single point/free selection focus, 15 to 35 point multi-point focus, and face detection that can spot up to ten faces. There’s also a green auto focus lamp to help ensure images are crisp.

ISO has a nice range from 100 to 12,800, and there are the standard modes: Single, Continuous, Burst (limited to 5-megapixel shots), Timer, and Bracket. Images can be taken in JPEG and RAW format. Burst mode ranges from 10 to 30 shots per second, depending on setting. There are 10 white balance modes, including Tungsten, Cloudy, Fluorescent, and Custom, as well as micro adjustments Amber, Blue, Green, and Magenta.

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Nikon Unveils Coolpix A, Coolpix P330, Coolpix S3500 Digital Cameras

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Shane McGlaun (Blog) – March 5, 2013 (http://www.dailytech.com)

Nikon has added three new cameras to its line of point-and-shoot digital offerings. The first, and most advanced of these new cameras is the Coolpix A featuring a DX-format CMOS sensor. The camera has a wide-angle 18.5 mm F/2.8 lens which makes it appropriate for a range of shooting scenarios according to Nikon.

The Coolpix A also uses a seven-blade iris diaphragm allowing for natural blur characteristics. The camera has a resolution of 16.2-megapixels, can shoot 14-bit compressed RAW images, and can record full HD resolution digital movies. Nikon promises that the Coolpix S will deliver the kind of image quality typically reserved for D-SLR cameras

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Samsung smart cameras with built-in Wi-Fi now available

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By: Jared Newman Feb 11, 2013 (http://www.techhive.com/)
Samsung’s new batch of Wi-Fi-enabled digital cameras, which the company announced at CES in January, are now on sale through U.S. retailers.
Samsung DV150F Digital Camera

Samsung DV150F Digital Camera

The new Samsung cameras include the $150 DV150F and the $230 WB250F. Both cameras are part of Samsung’s “Smart Camera 2.0” line-up, which allow users to easily offload their photos to a phone or computer, or upload them directly to the Internet. (They’re not to be confused, however, with Samsung’s Galaxy Camera, a 4G-connected device powered by Android.)

The WB250F is a 14.2-megapixel camera with 18x optical zoom, an f/3.2 to f/5.8 aperture lens, and a BSI CMOS sensor. It has a 3-inch LCD display on the backside and a pop-up flash that can be tilted forward and backward.

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Panasonic doubles color sensitivity of digital camera sensors

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By Jay Alabaster, IDG News Service (http://www.itworld.com)

February 04, 2013, 4:44 AM — Panasonic has developed a new way to drastically increase the color and light sensitivity of digital cameras including those used in smartphones.

The Osaka-based electronics manufacturer said Monday its method replaces the color filter arrays widely used in such devices to capture individual colors, using tiny prism-like color splitters instead. The company said the new method can double the color sensitivity of image sensors, leading to far brighter images under the same lighting conditions or similar image quality at half the light.

Most image sensors on the market detect only the intensity of light they are exposed to, and so must rely on filters to provide color information. Each pixel in a sensor sits under a tiny filter that lets through only a single color. In the widely used Bayer filter, light is filtered into red, blue and green, with green given half the total pixels and the remainder split between the other two colors.

But Panasonic said this filtering method blocks much of the light before it reaches the sensor pixels, letting only 25 to 50 percent through. The company’s “micro color splitters” use a super-thin transparent and refractive material to diffract light into combinations of white, red and blue, with no loss of light, which can then be translated back into standard colors mathematically.

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Nikon Announces New COOLPIX Digital Cameras—Now Available for Pre-Order at B&H Photo

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Nikon has announced seven new COOLPIX digital cameras just in time for Spring 2013.

NYC, NY (PRWEB) January 29, 2013

B&H Photo Video is pleased to share with photo enthusiasts the release of Nikon’s new COOLPIX camera lineup.

 

COOLPIX S9500 Digital Camera (Black)

COOLPIX S9500 Digital Camera (Black)

Nikon COOLPIX S9500 Digital Camera is a point-and-shoot with an 18.1MP CMOS image sensor that enables one to capture low-light shots without a flash. When the light is just too low, the built-in pop-up flash is there to provide extra illumination.

A member of Nikon’s Ultra-Slim Zoom collection, the camera is equipped with a 22x NIKKOR ED VR zoom lens that has an effective focal length range of 4.5-99mm, covering wide-angle to telephoto shots, and an aperture range of f/3.4-6.3. Lens-shift Vibration Reduction helps keep the images free of blur, even with unsteady hands.

The built-in GPS, mapping, Electronic Compass and Points of Interest (POI) features lets one create photo journals, recording the exact location of each shot one takes–they can follow the path of the adventure. Share photo journeys on Google Earth, Google+ and other social media sites, or with the included Nikon View NX2 software.

The mapping and Electronic Compass functions also helps navigate unfamiliar destinations, and Points of Interest (POI) show the nearby photo-ops, e.g., scenic lookouts and historic landmarks.

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