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News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News Olympus publicly showed prototypes of its new top-end digital SLR in March, but a leaked document indicates the real thing could be announced in October and on sale in November. An anonymous person posted a 27-page presentation at the FourThirds...

13 July 2007, 8:44

Adobe to open Lightroom to programmers

News As with the latest version of Photoshop's raw image conversion tool, Lightroom now supports raw images from several new cameras, including the Canon 1D Mark III, Nikon D40x, Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro, Olympus E-410 and SP-550 UZ, Sigma SD14 and...

27 June 2007, 9:45

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News Kodak hasn't been afraid to file patent infringement suits against camera makers Olympus and Sony. The new technology, to be unveiled on Thursday and used in products in 2008, increases light sensitivity of existing image sensors by a factor of two...

14 June 2007, 9:28

SLRs drive digital camera sales surge

News Sony wasn't in the market in 2005, but its 326,000 SLR shipments in 2006 were enough to vault the consumer electronics company over established camera makers Olympus and Pentax into third place overall, according to IDC data released on Monday.

4 April 2007, 8:42

Panasonic developing lower-end dSLR

News Panasonic, Sony and Samsung are trying to use their digital expertise to take on SLR makers with a film camera history: Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus and Pentax. This week, Nikon introduced its D40x and Olympus its Evolt E-410 and E-510.

12 March 2007, 10:36

Sony developing two higher-end SLRs

News Traditional film camera companies such as Canon, Nikon and Olympus are the best established, but electronics companies including Sony, Panasonic and Samsung are trying to edge in. Sony announced plans on Thursday for two higher-end digital SLR...

9 March 2007, 9:15

Photos: New digital SLRs for Olympus and Nikon

News In conjunction with the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas, Olympus and Nikon showed off upgraded digital SLR models. Olympus' E-410, due to ship early June, has a 10-megapixel sensor, a new image-processing chip and a starting...

8 March 2007, 10:52

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News The company also faces longtime SLR rivals Pentax, Olympus and Fujifilm, and newcomers Panasonic, Sony and Samsung. The 1D Mark III also is the first Canon SLR to include the live preview feature that first arrived on Olympus SLRs.

23 February 2007, 8:50

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News Sally Smith Clemens, a product manager for Olympus Imaging America, added that reputable camera makers are careful to improve image processing to ensure that the overall picture is good even if noise levels increase in a sensor.

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00

Adobe attempts to unify image formats

News Adobe's ownership is an issue for camera maker Olympus, too. At this time, we have seen no strategy for it to become a de facto standard across multiple platforms or software beyond Adobe," said John Knaur, senior product manager for digital SLRs...

21 November 2006, 9:48

'Manual' is the mantra for new cameras

News In addition to the cameras released this week, Olympus will unveil a concept model of its successor to the E-1 during Photokina, the company said. While this year's Photokina promises to be the most well-attended ever, the products introduced so...

27 September 2006, 10:21

Photos: The end of the classic film camera?

News The Olympus 35mm O-product. The lens also featured a mechanical self-timer that lasted about five seconds. Aperture and shutter speed also were set mechanically on the lens. Because it was a range finder, a photographer would focus by twisting the...

26 May 2006, 10:09

Digital camera market peaked too soon

News The top digital camera makers worldwide and in the US are Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Olympus and Sony. The digital camera industry has reached maturity early, and the heady growth rates will slow, according to a report.

29 April 2005, 8:13