Not too long ago, Sony announced a new backpack for users to mount their action cams to the back of their canine friends. If you go onto YouTube you can actually see that many people love doing this when they go for hikes or anything else just to get the dog’s point of view. At BlogPaws 2013, Sony mounted the packs to a bunch of dogs and a giant rabbit.
The hilarious photos are after the jump.
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Last week, we got to have some quality fondling time with the brand new Zeiss 12mm f2.8 Touit lens on the Fujifilm X Pro 1. The lens is one of the first entries that Zeiss has made into the mirrorless autofocus lens market. Like all things Zeiss, the company is not only putting image quality first, but they’re also trying to think a bit different in terms of build quality. In our meeting with Zeiss, they also clearly stated that they are targeting the high end user.
And with the price tag of the 12mm f2.8, they really seem to be doing just that.
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Tim Kemple is an adventure photographer who recently partnered with F-Stop gear to create a series called, “Life in Focus.” He has shot campaigns for North Face, Black Diamond, and loads of others. Tim’s work has also been featured many times by Phase One as he takes his gear out to capture vast landscapes and death-defying scenes.
In between hikes, we had some time to chat with Tim about his work and the spirit of adventure.
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It was honestly bound to happen: and now it has. According to a report from the Wall St Journal found by Imaging Resource, Olympus will kill off their V series of cameras. The V series were always the more affordable options, but the problem is that those camera sales are being eroded away by mobile phones. There isn’t any word on the other point and shoot cameras like the XZ-2 and XZ-10, but when one thinks about Olympus these days, we often think about the Micro Four Thirds line of cameras. With the arrival of the EP5, the lineup has full mobile connection though it is also possible with Transcend Air cards for the rest of the pen lineup.
These cameras are designed to offer users something that they can’t get from their phones: better quality. The images are then easily ported over to the devices and then shared to the web. However, someone will soon need to put apps like Instagram and Facebook in the cameras without the use of the Android system.
Despite this news, the company had a tremendous stock rise today. According to the Wall St Journal report though, other manufactures such as Canon are even struggling with point and shoot sales. And for years, Canon Powershots were the absolute best that one could get. But with the recent competition from Fujifilm’s X series and Sony’s RX series with significantly larger sensors, we’re not very sure that the small sensor camera market can survive.
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Sony just announced a new XPERIA smartphone labeled the ‘ZR’, which is the latest in a series of dust- and waterproof Android smartphones from the Japanese electronics giant. Following the original Acro and Acro S mid-range models, late 2012′s XPERIA V and their current flagship phone, the 5-inch XPERIA Z, the new ZR ups the ante by pushing the waterproofing to an IP58 certification, meaning it will be able to stay submerged even longer and deeper than its predecessors. Sony claims the ZR to have the “highest level of water-resistance for filming in Full HD underwater“.
Specs are after the jump.
Via PetaPixel and XPERIA Blog
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To this day, we’re still not exactly sure who would purchase the Sony NEX 7 on steroids Hasselblad Lunar. Sony Alpha Rumors and Photo Rumors picked up on a story from Genotype Writings which states the following massive problem with the camera:
“The rear of the camera, apart from being massive, also makes it very awkward to pull the LCD out. It feels as if there is a Nex-7 hiding in there somewhere and the Lunar is just a housing around the original camera.”
But apparently there is more: they hate the plastic like knobs and the overall layout is just awkward. They also talk about how massive the camera is to an NEX 7 and that the exterior overall doesn’t feel worth the money. The lens though they state has Hasselblad written on it and also has a different finish.
Despite the hilarious unfortunate problems though these are just the first impressions and we’re not sure what it will be like in the end. Sadly, this doesn’t seem like the same company that discontinued the 503CW.
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