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10-17-2002 Pentax digital SLR in spring 2003 ....
http://www.jij.co.jp/news/021016/auto/401.html
10-03-2002 Samsung 4GB compactflash card,......well,well, when,.....
http://www.estado.estadao.com.br/suplementos/info/2002/09/23/info039.html
09-26-2002 Olympus/Kodak Olydak is finally shown at the Photokina in Koeln,.... to bad it's a litle late for a lot of E10/E20 owners,.... still belive it will be a great camera
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092411olympus43show.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092410olydak43inch.asp
09-26-2002 Medium format digital backs without cable , and with LCD,... from Kodak
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/cameras/dcsProBack645/proBack
645Index.jhtml;jsessionid=SG42HQLTZP04PQHIO3JXWJA
the ultimate quality, for right now,....yeah, 16MP, sinar has a 22MP,... 09-26-2002 Sinar 22MP digital back, the swiss are still king of the Alps,....
http://www.sinar.ch/press/release/PMKAF-22000-e.pdf
http://www.sinar.ch/press/release_e.htm .
09-26-2002 Canon 1Ds 11MP
- finally the long awaited 1D improvement,...no more, if I would have shot it with provia...
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092404canoneos1ds.asp
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EOS1DS/E1DSA.HTM
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/1ds/1ds-field.shtml
http://www.numeritest.com/PDF/Canon-EOS1Ds.pdf
09-26-2002 Kodak 14n 14MP digital camera
- it's great to see this development, my thought are in the review section....
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/cameras/dcsPro14n/dcsPro14nInd
ex.jhtml
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092304kodakdcs14n.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092303kodakdcs14n_qanda.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092601fillfactorycmos.asp
09-25-2002 Metz has flash news,....
http://www.digitalkamera.de/Info/News/15/04.htm
still waiting for a D-TTL SCA adapter for the 54MZ-3,.....for the D100,D1X,D1H,....14n
06-27-2002 fuji S2, Nikon D100, canon D60 comparisons...
http://www.digital.idv.tw/dc-test/FujiFilm/fujis2/compare/index-s2pro-compare.htm
06-24-2002 USB 2.0 vs. Firewire speed, guess who is faster, specs aside ....
http://www.barefeats.com/fire26.html , just wish the cables where a litle cheaper....
06-24-2002 Nikon D100 News, already shipping in japan,finland....just hope it's not going to be a long wait like with the canon D60 with trickling delivery, and preorders,...then again, Nikon is probably going to
have big demand for all the folks waiting for this one, and the D1X owners, who want a couple more pixels and a backup camera... 04-29-2002 Kodak 8500 dyesub printer,...the big kodak does it again,
since olympus did not come through with a new model for 8x10,... kudos for kodak,
and they will have a good service plan, one day turnaround....
http://www.letsgodigital.nl/webpages/events/CEBIT-2002/news/kodak/8500_uk.html
thought the 8600 I had checked the samples
last year, where not much better than the olympus, ... and they had imbedded dust, and flakes from the coating,....we'll see... 03-31-2002 Kodak DCS 860 with X3 foveon chip,...for $7k sep 31th,...
from a chinese site ,.. http://www.cameraunion.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=74761
64 pic, buffer, 5minutes video recording ....hmm, for the guys, that don't like sigma,....
wonder if it has the same 1.7x focal multiplier....
pictures from the DCS 860 http://cameraunion.com/forum/upload/34/3438/dcs860.jpg
now the question is, is this april's fool,.....
03-2002 Tokina, 28-70mm AT-X 270AF F2.8 ....and 60-120mm F2.8 ....
shipping,.... they say end of 5/2002 .... and that's in japan....
hope they reduced the flare, something about multicoating....
http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tokina.co.jp%
2Fnews%2Fphotoexpo.html
http://www.tokina.co.jp/index/index2.html
03-25-2002 Contax N digital, delay again, that's it.....
http://www.kyocera.co.jp/news/2001/0111/CXND-j.html 03-24-2002 Contax N digital , supposed to be released in japan, ...trahhra...
hope they have some news on the new 85mm F1.4 lens ??
03-24-2002 new lenses....
- Minolta has some new ulrasonic SSM lenses .... comeing
AF 28-70mm f/2.8 G D SSM
AF 70-200mm f/2.8 G D SSM
AF 300mm f/2.8 G D SSM
- Tokina AF 28-70mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro SV
and a new 60-120mm F2.8 AT-X from the photoexpo 2002 in japan...
source: http://www.photozone.de/new.htm
03-12-2002 new photo vest .... do you have a pain in the neck.....
http://www.central-camera.com/nikon/vestrap.htm
03-08-2002 Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED
http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/news_release/2002/afsvr70-200.htm
since the 80-200mm is one of the most used focal length, for portrait and outdoor, the bread and butter,....and after long craveing for the canon IS one,... the VR version is on it's way to keep me in the
campus,....heard, that one was seen at the winter Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake City, that's a good sign, hope the will come out soon,...than again the 180mm F2.8 is very tempting too, .
03-08-2002 Nikon D100 price rumors ..... $2000
http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1015426978.html 03-08-2002 Canon D60 price .....from www.canoga.com
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=2335740
Canon has set the Minimum Advertised Price (M.A.P.) at $2199.00 for the D60 kit, and
$1999.00 for the D60 body. Canoga is also offering a manufacturers Canon, Inc. EOS
Digital Camera 1-Year Extended Protection Plan (2-Years total) for $299.95. 03-07-2002 Canon D60 shots from Japan
http://myalbum.ne.jp/cgi-bin/a_menu?id=fa806372
03-07-2002 Kodak T400CN ,.... discontinued,...buhhh,....
today I tried to buy some,.... just to compare for scanning between the portra 400bw,... looks like kodak has a nice strategy to make a buck or three,... and drive competing silver film sales down too....
03-07-2002 Olympus CeBit watch ...
http://cf.olympus-europa.com/consumer/digimg/news/cebit2002/
so far nothing baut a new DIN-A4 dyesub printer (P-400) , I'm waiting...
the link has live camera update from the stands.....
03-07-2002 Worcester, Weatons camera,... announced , they will get a noritsu
machine for digital printing, 135,120,220,aps, and scanning to CD,... laser/LED technology, ....
can't wait,... but of course they will charge more....
03-07-2002 Worcester, rumors,....PhotoColorService is
looking into a Noritsu digital, printer/developer/scanner....hmmm, not just Wheatons.....
03-05-2002 B&H photo has the
CONTAX N Digital 6.2 Megapixel Interchangeable Lens SLR Digital Camera listed for $7k listed..... 03-03-2002 CeBit in germay (comdex equivalent) is coming,
and that is for most parts going to be more interesting than the PMA, since it is a world event, it will have many implications for the industry, stockmarkets, new products.
Most exiting for me, finnaly an
announcement about a improved DIN-A4 dyesub printer from Olympus ( old P-400), hope they fixed it to print a full 8x10 page, please....
possible annoucement about the Kodak/Oly SLR product, where they
want to make a new standard.....yeah, right, without Nikon and Canon, that will go over well, remember the APS SLR's ... great for small cameras, would'nt mind to have cartridge loading with 135 and 120 film, but
all they want is sell their custom machines for there on product, leaveing the customer out, aka, photo-cd, where they never released the code, so eventually it died. 03-02-2002 PPA March 1-4, 2002 at the Sheraton INN Plymouth.
drove down there with my frined Paul Bobkowski, kind of a last minute thing for me,
and eded up enjoying it
very much, a relaxed concference, surrounded with professional photographers, without the "big convention" runnaround.
big applause:
Kirk Voclain , exellence as
a speaker, with funny style, jokes, talking with hands and feet, camera and photoshop, pritty good acting, for a photographer.., down to earth, he'will rattle your brains, with answers, like a machine gun, with witty
style, before you can sip your water, he will shoot another joke, or paraphrase another situation, pitfalls in the daily live of a photographer. but biggest value, he will share is secrete how and why he does bussiness,
and you too can improve.
Paul Bobkowski : he won first prce 2002, don't know for the other years,...you got to love his B&W TRI-X shots, of course it helps that he develops and prints himself,
his master pieces, and it helps that he is useing first class prime lenses, ether from Hasselblad and Nikon, old style manual focus, metering , what's that, Las Vegas style, been there, done that, I know what to do,
confidence 'do jour'.
Emmet Robinson, held a exellent speach about "customer Service",
this is a must, especially for coorporate managment, but even a doorman or somebody working at a
fastfood chain, will benefit from it in his/her professional carrier.
It's not that he is not trying to be funny, but this is definitly a course, what should be held early, since some fell asleep, on that
subject,..... He does have a book published, "How to keep your customers forever", what will be on my shopping list,
He's approach, and technique, will have a bigger success rate than any photographic equipment,
unless you allready are the top 100 photographer of this planet.
Robert Jenks, PPA award from last year, ( had to leave early, so I don't know his awards for this year). just had a chance to have dinner
with him, as he is an old from from Bobkovski......
02-28-2002 Primefilm 3600 PRO film scanner is not yet shipping, maybe another 2-3 weeks. not the high end, but convinient, firewire, and roll-feed or stripes without holder...
for proofing, might be interesting, don't know yet about software...where to preorder ...
http://www.scanneroutlet.com/Film%20Scanners.htm
02-17-2002 Sony ICX413AQ 6MP CCD, at dpreview.com
spec sheets,... http://www.framos.de/produkte/ccdsensoren/image/frame_read_sys_de.framos
and sonys techical slide show http://www.framos.de/pdf_sheets/Preston-SONY_CNCE.pdf
it's a good think, since sony is a maystream manufacturer, that can deliver mass market
consumer products, without the professional pricetag from Kodak or others...
from the documentation, I read, that mass production is slated end of June 2002,...so I would not expect anything in digital cameras before
december,...
Sony's 10MP B&W ccd, is probably on the same timeline, but I would think, that it will be used primarily on medical systems, darn, I'd love to see a color/mono version of a digital camera.....
from the specs,... 80db ratio, I would think that it will be not exview had ccd , since those have over 100db. darn, would that be nice for low light shots, I guess the video-camera guys, will see it first.
02-13-2002 digital panorama stiching, ran across an interesting site,....for the ones that might opt for a digital to cover their landscape sites....
http://www.caldwellphotographic.com/NYCMosaics.html?1013489493850 02-12-2002 Jenoptik ,germany, recall a while ago, that
they have a medium format version with a philips sensor 6MP FTF3020-C, same type used in the contax N1 digital, but with an announced upgrade path, get one now and get the 11MP later this year, for 6k euro http://www.eyelike.de/eyelike/downloads_presse/Sensor_Update.PDF ....but it's good news, finally the first digital
back manufacturer (medium format) to offer an upgrade path for a product. so far unheard of, but's it's deffinitly something I'd like to see for the pro PJ's too with their 35mm digital. 6MP to 11MP,...note:
the 11MP in 16shot mode 244MB,
also note that their eyelike 6MP single shot, can already do up to 25MP multishot, for still shots. http://www.eyelike.de/eyelike/frame/frameset/f_kameras.html
02-11-2002 Sigma has annouce a new digital camera SD-7 with a Foveon X3 cmos sensor.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021104sigmads9.asp
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021103foveonx3preview.asp
some technical specs from the patent office on the Foveon chip
samples: http://www.foveon.com/news_pressroom.html
02-08-2002 Pentax 645NII
www.deltainternational.com has it now listed for $1437 grey, http://www.deltainternational.com/store/Item.asp?ItemNo=PXC645NII
it's very tempting, to shot 645 for a while, and wait for the digital to catch up,.... 02-06-2002 phillips CCD full frame ftf3020c, in the Contax N-1 digital is made from 6 pieces,...on another prototype made for a university in germany,... ccd size 3.5x4.5 inches ....nice,...
http://www.profifoto.de/artikel/digitalkameras/dikamera.html 02-05-2002 Fuji's super CCD III
why it's a real contender, for the stopgap of full frame CCD . It's the fillfactor and the interpolation due the hexagon shape, the fuji S1 had a lowest iso of 320, the new fuji S2 will go down to 100, but should
still be great for low light shots.
http://www.finepix.com/f601_ccd.html The new Fuji S2 (at www.dpreview.com)will have the new super ccd III, shure with 2fps, it's not a fast shooter. but for slow/studio work, and low light, it should be great. when? don't think, they will
ship before august. here is another article you might whant to translate with babelfish ,... http://www.finepix.com/technology/super_ccd_01.html
specs,.... http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fujifilm.co.jp%
2Fnews_r%2Fnrj869a.html
meanwhile Nikon will also have something to announce. 02-01-2001 Sunpak TR-2000 batterypack, after talking to a sales guy,...it looks, the first shipment of 300 end of or at PMA,
nicad only first, 1/2 year later NiMH packs, and one hour charger down the road, their website www.tocad.com will get a an update too.
this battery pack, will support 6V
and 330V flash systems, basic competition for the quantum turbo packs. 01-31-2002 Metz SCA 3202 M2 has finally arrived,...for the 54MZ-3 in use for the E10/E20N,....testing/transitioning is scheduled..
01-27-2002 rumors, rumors ,.... the PMA show in Orlando,Florida is coming up, and till then , sleepless nights, of dreams, worries, and speculations are in the air.
New cameras are on the way,....some shops are out of stock with the canon D30 digital,
fuji stopped production on their S1 pro,and the new D60 should be annonce end of february, and hopfully in you hands by June ....
Contax has delayed their official shippment till march 12th on the contax N-1 digital 6MP,
and Fuji is to anounce 01-30-2002 their new super-chip III, what should be used in a new
fullframe sensor, and not
like their old Fuji Pro S1, will finnaly spec a better body, delivery might be around august, with a price , I guess higher than $6k(?? $8k), autch....
Nikon will show some promise to fill in for the amateur or low
budged Photojournalist, with a new digital 4.5MP and 1.5x focal multiplier, price, hmm just guess to be around $3.5k.
Canon has some new lenses out their, one of them a 28-105mm F2.8 L lens, nice but no cigar, since
I want IS (image stabilizer) with it, oh price, pickpocket deep, like all "L" lenses. Kodak has a new mono , B&W version of their DCS 760, for ~$11k, and no, it's not the same as shooting color and just do a
photoshop on it, the sensor makes the difference, it's better in low light, it's sharper, since no color pixel interpolation is necessary,
higher fill factor of the ccd, greater tonal range, a real marvel for the
B&W folks, or sience applications.
Leica fans are desperatly waiting for news,....a tech merger might be the answer...
Hasselblad, has announce their losses, and they show their old proven tincans in new
colors, so a couple more years, so far a nice 6x6 beats those PJ's digital hands down.
Minolta, no news on digital SLR's, just a new pocket, eh, credit-card size digital, that's it. 01-20-2002 Photographer Paul Pope has some beach shots with his new Canon 1D and 70-200mm F2.8 IS lens.....for all the other who got to live with snow and Nikon.....
01-15-2002 my 340MB microdrive died!
after getting my new organizer, the Casio BE-300 , I used it there, and apperently it did not survive the pocket enviroment, it does now a funny sound, like invaders, and is
not recognized by the camera or organizer. So what's next, another microdrive, no thanks, looks like, it's going to be the RiData 512MB compactflash card.
01-12-2002 Metz SCA adapter 3202 for Olympus E-10 ,E-20,officially available.
http://www.bogenphoto.com/product_temp/templates/templates.php3?sectionid=171&item
id=1294
after sending an Email to www.metz.de got reffered to ... www.bogenphoto.com ...and got finally a respnse ....
The SCA3202 adapter for the Olympus E-10 is readily available.
Unfortunately, Bogen is prohibited from conducting direct sales. All
purchases must be made through a retail location. Because prices can vary
from store-to-store, I cant give you accurate pricing or availability. You
can use the dealer locater on our website to find your local camera shops,
or call some of these mail order locations listed below.
Abbey Camera...(800)252-2239
B & H Photo......(800)947-9950
Calumet Photo...(800)CAL-UMET
Camera World....(800)729-8941
W.B. Hunt's.......(800)924-8682
...well, I called hunts, no ... called www.bhphoto.com ,...no they did not have it, it's not listed, and I can't order it. After an 1/2 hr back and forth, why can't I order it if it is officially available ?,... no we
don't have a part number ....blah,blah,
I called Calumet, no we don't have it, ....after a litle poke, why don't you check with bogen, and give me call back ,..... 10 minutes later , I placed an order , for the
adapter $49,
with a promise of 1-3 weeks. So a big high-five, or 5 star rating from me for www.calumetphoto.com for their professional response.
01-13-2002 Sunpak TR-2000 advertised at www.bhphoto.com for $299 plus cable, sold out. 01-05-2002 Pentax 645NII
had finally seen it on the web,....at www.sunsetcamera.com for ~$1900,
it's comeing , finally with a mirror lockup, YES. and the 35mm F3.5 is available too, what would
be a 20mm in 35mm terms...and the 150mm F2.8 price came down too, overall I still like to get the contax 645, but everthing is 2x the price, but the biggest drawback on the contax setup is, no zooms available, and
battery life really sucks.
01-04-2002 Batterypack from Sunpak TR-2000
B&H has it now advertised for $299, 24ounce, and with different cables it can do 300V or 6V, for pritty much all the
flashes, great, and battery modules could be added in nicad or NiMH, so with extra packs to clip of/on, and drive different voltages, sounds great to me.
pros: small weight, small price , modular, dual voltage support, led display on charge
cons: it's a sunpak,...your trusty quantum turbo Z is not obsolete, just the oposite, since they use lead-acid batterys,
your charge will be still there, even after weeks, same with the great units from lumedyne.
12-25-2001 Shutterbug January 2002, a nice review of the Pentax 150mm F2.8 lens for the 645N AF camera. what to say,
have to wipe my grin of my face, ... a F2.8 on a 645 medium format, with the exellent coating from pentax, that should kick some Hassy ass,...
not really, but shure it should help on the AF autofocus side, and
internal focusing is nice, not to have the lense extent. 12-23-2001 SUNPAK 's TR-2000 a nice modular batterypack for your flash system,
advertised in the popular photography magazine with a full
page,....well no signs of it on the sunpaks website www.tocad.com yet. does 6V and 330V, and has nicad and NiMH battery clusters, what sounds interesting. Will see ounce it comes out.
12-19-2001 one of my buddys, added a Nikon coolpix 5000 to his Leica camera bag, where he carries two R8's and numerous lenses,... wait , correction, it's for his wife......
12-15-2001 Metz
54MZ-3 for the digital Olympus E-10 and E-20 , to replace the FL-40,.... I guess the SCA adapter 3202 , so far is not in site in the usa, so back to Germany, maybe mailorder, or even better skip the oly's digital
world altogether....
well, the Metz 54MZ-3 is still on my christmas wish list, since it would play with my Minolta 800si, and my Olympus E-10, and it would play with the Nikon F5 with D lenses in 3D matrix mode
too, and you can finally opt for a nice battery powerpack, like the Quantum turbo Z, to cut down on the recharge wait.....
12-17-2001 one of my buddys got his Nikon 8000ED medium format film
scanner,......after a long wait, finally,....now, what, well hell scan some 35mm slides, till he can get to it to upgrade his computer, so he can scann the 645 slides with over 400MB....
11-25-2001 Pentax
645NII finally with mirror lockup, yes, but no official word on the release, and ounce they do, what price ? maybe $2400 ? autsch, unless you shoot marco on a cement floor, a new tripod head might be cheaper, than
again, would it make a difference for handheld shots, like it does with the big Berta, pentax 67II ?? who knows, anybody already testing?
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