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New lenses and product line designed for Micro Four Thirds, E-mount systems

RONKONKOMA, NY and LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan. 9, 2012 – Sigma Corporation of America today announced the launch of its new line of Micro Four Thirds system and E-mount lenses for mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 in Las Vegas, NV.

New fast and stabilized lens announced at Consumer Electronics Show 2012

RONKONKOMA, NY and LAS VEGAS, NV Jan. 9, 2012 – Sigma Corporation, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world's most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and flashes, is pleased to announce the Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM,...

Rounding out its camera announcements for the Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic has revealed two new long-zoom models that look well-suited to fans of traveling light: the Panasonic SZ7 and Panasonic SZ1.

Of the pair, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ7 is the significantly more powerful, largely thanks to its use of a MOS image sensor. This lets the SZ7 shoot full-resolution...

Continuing its CES show announcements, Panasonic Corp. has unveiled the Panasonic DMC-FH8 and Panasonic DMC-FH6 ultracompact digital cameras.

Of the duo, the Panasonic FH6--known in some markets as the FS40--is aimed more towards the entry level. Features include 14 megapixel resolution, a 5x optical zoom lens, 2.7-inch LCD display, and 720p MotionJPEG movie capture.

Panasonic Consumer Marketing Company of North America has announced a new entry-level digital camera for the Consumer Electronics Show which updates last year's Lumix DMC-S1 model, the Panasonic DMC-S2.

Accompanied by the launch of the DMC-S5 in some markets (as an update of the DMC-S3), the Panasonic Lumix DMC-S2 is a fairly straightforward update of its predecessor,...

LAS VEGAS, NV (January 9, 2012) – Panasonic today announces four new conversion lenses that are compatible with the H-PS14042 (LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm/F3.5-5.6 ASPH./POWER O.I.S.) and H-H014* (LUMIX G 14mm / F2.5 ASPH.) Panasonic Micro Four Thirds lenses, which are part of the LUMIX G Series and compatible with the company’s compact system cameras (CSC).

New 600x and 400x SDHC and SDXC UHS-I Cards, Including the First 128GB SDXC UHS-I Card, Offer Blazing-Fast Speeds and Outstanding Reliability

Fremont, CA, 9 January, 2012 – Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory products, today introduced new Lexar® Professional 600x and 400x Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC™) and Secure Digital Extended...

Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, January 9, 2012—SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today introduced the 128 gigabyte (GB)¹ SanDisk Extreme® SDXC™ UHS-I card. The new card is ideal for photography enthusiasts capturing Full HD² 3D videos and high-resolution photos.

Video Recording Drives Growth...

Fujifilm North America Corp. has fulfilled a promise made late last year a little ahead of schedule, by announcing the Fujifilm X-Pro1--its first true compact system camera--at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, instead of at a Japanese tradeshow as recently suggested.

The X-Pro1 is an interesting camera for a number of reasons, not least of which being that it's...

In the middle of a dry December, we attended an hour briefing on Lightroom 4 with Product Manager Tom Hogarty. We've been following Lightroom's development since its inception. With each revision our wish list shrinks. This time we checked off video and soft proofing, to name the two biggest new features.

But there's a lot more we're dying to test drive including some...

Free Lightroom 4 Beta Delivers Unparalleled Image Processing and Workflow Efficiency for Photographers

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Jan. 10 -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta for Windows and Mac. Available as a free public download from Adobe Labs, Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow...

Among photo enthusiasts--and if you're reading this news item, there's a fair chance you're in that number--the Canon G1 X is one of the big talking points of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. With that in mind, we conducted a public Q&A right before the show kicked off with Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor with the Professional Engineering & Solutions Division at Canon...

Nikon made a big splash right before the combined Consumer Electronics Show / Photo Marketing Association tradeshow kicked off, with the debut of their latest professional SLR, the Nikon D4. It's generated a huge amount of excitement and discussion in the last week, and so we sat down with Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager at Nikon Inc., for a lengthy public Q&A...

As the Consumer Electronics Show prepares to kick off in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has today introduced three new wifi-capable digital cameras, all of which work in harmony with a newly-launched cloud service.

The Samsung WB850F, WB150F, and ST200F differ quite a bit in terms of form factor and basic specification, but all three include updated, Samsung...

Samsung has today announced two new entry-level models for its ST-series of compact digital cameras.

The Samsung ST76 and Samsung ST66 are fairly closely related, although their body styling does differ. The most notable difference between the two is the inclusion of optical image stabilization in the ST76, a function that's absent from the ST66. Both cameras have slim...

As CES 2012 gets ready to roll, we've scheduled two Live Q&A sessions tonight that will let readers put their thoughts and questions to the manufacturers directly, on a couple of the most exciting digital cameras announced thus far. (Update: The Q&As are both now over, but you can read the archived sessions in our Canon G1 X preview and Nikon D4 preview pages.)

If you...

Canon USA Inc. has today announced three new PowerShot series digital cameras for the Consumer Electronics Show: the large-sensor Canon G1 X, long-zoom Canon 520 HS, and fashion-friendly Canon 110 HS.

Among photo enthusiasts--and if you're reading this news item, there's a fair chance you're in that number--the Canon G1 X is sure to be a big talking point. With that in...

We are hosting our first Live Q&A session of CES 2012 on the Nikon D4 with Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager at Nikon. Not sure if you want to make the D4 jump? Want to ask about Nikon's vision for the product? Join us tomorrow, Monday the 9th, at 4:45 PM PST. (Update: The session's now over, but you can still read the archived Q&A on our Nikon D4 preview page.)

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At Imaging Resource our goal is to provide the most thorough photography coverage on the web. As in the past we'll go deep in our interviews, but we're introducing a couple twists for CES 2012. First, the full list of interviewees: 

• Fuji
• Nikon
• Olympus
• Panasonic
• Pentax
• Samsung
• Sigma
• Sony

While we've always done in-depth interviews, we'll...