Don’t want to lose out to those DSLR-fags that use auto-mode on their Canon 7D with 50mm f1.4 L lens, but also don’t want to be caught using a DSLR and get classes the same as them? Well, here’s something that will put you out of the league from those low class cool cats. Let us welcome the 200-Megapixel Hasselblad HD4-200MS!

This latest piece of kit is nearly identical to the 50 megapixel H4D-50MS externally, but is squeezed with some magical dust to have an additional astonishing 150 more megapixels to the sensor — yes, that’s an astounding 200 megapixels! Cannot brain? Me too. Get five of those and you’ll be on your way to making your own personal Gigapixel photo in one shot!

The new 200MS combines six shots to create ridiculously detailed 200 megapixel still images, and it handles less intensive photos with a four-shot 50 megapixel still mode. If you need to move out of the studio and take quick shots of birdies, there’s a 50 megapixel single-shot live mode for quick shots as well. Then again, the price is still too mind-boggling.

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Is Samsung going to invade the high-end digital camera market? The picture above was posted on Samsung’s blog about lens design, and the boxy camera above is an old-school-like medium format film shooter, from Samsung itself! That’s odd; we never see that on the market. There was a rumor kicking around last summer that Samsung was working on a medium format CMOS sensor and this could be a test rig for just such a slice of silicon. Is this a prototype of what’s coming from the Korean giant?

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Analog film photography has ‘almost’ died when digital camera and DSLR arrived, but now the resurrection is in progress. Fans of the awesome Lomo Photography, please welcome the brand new Lomo LC-Wide camera!

The new camera sports a 17mm Minigon Ultra-Wide Angle lens, and can shoot on pretty much any type of 35mm film. There are also a full range of effects to choose from: full, square, half-format shots, multiple exposures, and it even has a close-up focus distance of just 0.4 meters with auto exposure, zone-based focusing, and a maximum shutter speed of 1/500, which isn’t bad at all.

Lomo fans will find this camera at a RRP of $390. The funny magician around here, JoJo is already saving up for this baby.

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There’s yet another new Micro Four Thirds shooter in town, and it’s from Panasonic, the company that gave us the famous Lumix DMC-GF2. This time, it’s the slightly bigger brother, the Lumix DMC-G3. Yes, this is the successor to the G2.

The G3 comes with a 16 megapixel sensor, support for 1080p AVCHD video recording with stereo audio, 4fps burst shooting at full resolution, and an articulating, 3-inch touchscreen that supplants some of the dials adorning the last-gen model.

In addition to all those specs, you can touch that display to focus on your subject, and slide your finger to tweak exposure, white balance, and depth of field — all in all, not unlike how you might interact with a smartphone camera. It seemed like they learn very fast about the latest trends.

Also, this new successor is said to weight ten percent less than the G2 at 11.8 ounces, all thanks to the aluminium-clad body.

Look for it in June for $700 in brown, red, and white — in addition to your garden-variety black.

It seemed like Sony’s delayed NEX-C3 micro-four-third camera is indeed coming, though they’re still keeping quiet about its launch date. but the camera’s instruction manual has now made a brief appearance on the company’s Czech Republic site, offering yet more evidence that the successor to the NEX-3 is set for an imminent launch. The camera mock-up on the description page appears to be identical to previously leaked photos, and judging by control layout, NEX-3 and NEX-5 users should find it fairly familiar. Of course, the manual has been taken down, but as the Internet goes, nothing sleeps away untouched. DPReview points out that the camera is smaller than both previous models, and includes a 16 megapixel sensor, a new 30mm f/3.5 macro lens priced at €259 (about $383).

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Ripping apart a smartphone may be somewhat easy to some people, but tearing down a DSLR is another thing altogether. The latest stunt from iFixit is just what we said, tearing down a DSLR from Nikon. The latest victim is Nikon’s latest D5100, which was just launched last week. Usually when we see teardowns from iFixit, most of them only involved heat guns, but this time, they also went to desolder some wires. According to the crew, the camera is very hard to disassemble, even went as far as saying that “approximately 4 billion screws hold the device together”. If you’re interested in looking at the organs of the DSLR being tear apart step by step and see what’s inside a DSLR, then hit the link below for some fun provided by iFixit.

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When Sony discontinued the NEX-3, we can guess why. But the only reason we though we knew, are to avoid clashing with the NEX-5’s sales as the NEX-3 is stuck in between. However, now we had another reason to refer to. Apparently Sony is hard at work on developing the next NEX-3.

The successor will probably be called the NEX-C3, and is rumoured to include the same 16.2 megapixel image sensor used in the Sony Alpha A55 DSLR, as well as HD video capture (as expected) and the new flash seen in the image above. Leaked photos on Sony Alpha Rumors reveal an LCD with the same tilt capability we love on the NEX-3, as well as minor adjustments to the controls. The blog also got its hands on some leaked images of the Sony Alpha A35 DSLR (pictured below), though there’s no details about it yet.

Apparently Sony is said to have both cameras launched this month, but was set back by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March. No pricing has been rumoured yet, but we expect the NEX-C3 to be priced similarly with the now-discontinued NEX-3.

SOURCE via Sony Alpha Rumor
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This is one of the world’s most elite compact cameras, standing proudly next to a Leica. A digital compact camera, nearly point and shoot, and yet photos of the DSLR camera quality. This is the Fujifilm’s FinePix X100. Its body is made of gorgeous magnesium, the MacBook Air of the camera world, and you can even take photos silently, as demonstrated by Kai Wong.

Thanks to the F2 Fujinon lens, Photography Blog even called the X100 “right up there with the best APS-C sensor cameras on the market” in terms of image quality, and with “the best build quality of any camera that we’ve ever tested,” too. No surprises, as the images were superbly sharp, and the lack of noise with such lens is remarkable. Of course, the 23mm F2 Fujinon lens is fixed to the camera so you can’t use any adapters and change the lens like any ordinary Micro Four-Third cameras.

Watch the review by DigitalRev TV, and read the written review by Photography Blog in the source link below. Say goodbye to your savings after this.

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It’s a new year, and everyone’s launching new model or refreshing old ones. Panasonic unveiled its Lumix point-and-shoot lineup in January for the year 2011, but they never really gave any price point. But now the wait is over as the DMC-ZS10, DMC-ZS8, DMC-TS3 and DMC-FX78 are all being officially priced this week. All but the ZS8 supports the company’s new 3D Photo mode, which produces a realistic 3D photo by taking 20 consecutive photos and overlaying the two best images to provide a 3D image that can then be played on a Panasonic VIERA 3D HDTV. The format of the 3D image is compatible with MPO, and can also be played back on other MPO-compatible equipment such as a televisions, digital photo frames and printers.

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Yes, this is as bizarre as how the Pinkon gets. Pentax has painted their K-r camera with a three-color theme, as well as an unknown Gundam’s head at the place of the flash hotshoe, but I’m not sure if the mecha’s head will really shoots out flashy hyper beams. In response to customers’ demand, Pentax has happily obliging them with this limited run of 100 “robotized” K-r sets.

The internal specs are unchanged from the original, but you do get a new 35mm prime lens with a wide F2.4 aperture to play with. Pre-orders costing ¥99,800 ($1,187) will start on December 24th for a delivery in early January. Time to look outstanding; holding a black DSLR is just so uncool and too professional.

SOURCE via Akihabaranews