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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When Nikon launched its D7000 for another cat fight with Canon’s EOS 7D, things didn’t really go as well as they have planned. The D7000 suffered from a ‘hot pixel’ issue that pops up when taking videos in low light. Nikon has thus released the P7000 firmware update, but then again, despite saying that this update is solely to fix the hot pixel issue, Nikon USA stated that the “bright spots” effect has been “reduced”, but not totally eliminate the problem. Still, the hot pixel issue shouldn’t bother you that much now, so you can safely go and record your best white Christmas moment.

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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.

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Sony has upgrade the firmware on its miniature NEX-5/3 system cameras to improve usability, make manual focusing easier, and allow single-shot autofocus when using A-mount glass via an adapter. The latter will be rather useful for owners of Sony’s large-sensor compact, allowing them to use a total of 14 lenses from the company’s DSLR range without having to worry about focusing manually. Read more…

Sony has been known to throw in very colourful VAIO laptops, and recently very colourful mouse to compliment the laptops. Now they’ve tapped into their camera lines too with this sweet culture of their. Think Pentax can get away with their colourful Optio RZ10? Hell no, as Sony as added some colourful options for you to choose from. Read more…

Panasonic has removed the curtain at Photokina to show to the rest of the world their latest baby, the Lumix GH2. There’s a 16 megapixel Live MOS sensor, SD / SDHC / SDXC memory card slot, Micro Four Thirds mount, 23 points of auto focus tracking, face detection and so on that will make you drool. ISO range from 160 to 12,800, hot shoe accessory mount, 3-inch twistable rear LCD, mini HDMI output, a 2.5mm remote / external microphone input and a 1080/60i movie mode, or record 1080/24p at 24Mbps (the highest in AVCHD format). What’s even special is the ability to take 3D photos with Panasonic’s new interchangeable 3D lens. Read more…

Photokina is up and running and we’d expect lots of new lens and shoot-shoot devices being revealed over these few days. Let’s start with Pentax. They’re highlighting their new Optio RZ10 which touts a 14 megapixel sensor, a 10x optical zoomer, an upgraded Auto Picture mode (you know, for the newbies), a CCD-shift-type shake reduction mechanism, 720p HD movie mode, face detection, a pet mode for snagging better pictures of Fido and a 2.7-inch rear LCD. There’s also nine-point auto focus, an ISO range of 80 to 6400, inbuilt flash, 82.7MB of integrated storage, an SD / SDHC expansion slot and a rechargeable battery good for around 260 shots on a full charge. Comes with five funky colors too!

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Fujifilm is refreshing their FinePix line up, with five new models hitting retail stores in August. Let’s have a look at all five of them.

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Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3 Camera is the world’s smallest, lightest interchangeable lens cameras0 It comes with 14 megapixels Exmor APS-C sized sensor with Sony’s E-mount lens system which is compatible with DSLR lenses with the help of an optional mount adapter. The NEX-3 has a 720p video and the NEX-5 1080i. NEX-5 is smaller and comes with magnesium body, and an extra twist-button on the top plate. While other specs are pretty much the same. Starting price at $549. More pictures after the break. Read more…