Canon’s PowerShot series of cameras gets a new update with a total of six new models. After a year Canon replaces their top compact camera the G10 for the G11. They also reintroduce their older S-series again with the new S90. Two SX superzoom cameras are updated, the SX20is and the SX120is. And finally two SD-cameras, the SD980is and SD940is, are introduced.

The Canon PowerShot G11 gets two distinctive new features. Returned from the ashes is the swivel LCD (2.8”). And they dropped the 14,7 megapixel sensor from the G10 for a 10 megapixel, indicating that the run for more pixels seems ended (or at least with serious compact cameras). They followed the move from Panasonic with their LX3 and Ricoh with the GR Digital III.

Maybe more interesting is the reintroduction of the S90. This camera will also get a 1/1.7” CCD 10 megapixel sensor, like the G11, with the DIGIC 4 image processor.

It will also do RAW and RAW+jpeg, and even full manual mode. Two features on this camera makes this camera probably a more interesting package than the G11. The lens will be a 28-105mm lens starting at f/2.0 at the wide angle (faster than the G11 lens) and their will a control ring attached to the camera body that lets you adjust some camera functions like zoom, ISO, exposure compensation, focus, and white balance.

For more and extensive coverage about these new cameras and the four other cameras, the SX20is, SX120is, SD980is, and the SD940is, make sure to check 1001noisycameras or dpreview.

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Although the official announcement of the new Olympus E-P1 will be tomorrow afternoon, June 16th in Tokyo, images and specs have appeared all over the net. The camera will come with a 12.3 mp livemos sensor and a 3" LCD screen with 230,000 pixels. In auto mode the ISO range will be from 200 to 3200 and in manual mode from 100 to 6400. The first sample images can be seen here.

The camera will have the following file formats: 12 bit RAW, jpeg, RAW + jpeg, and AVI motion jpeg. Both sRGB and AdobeRGB are available as color spaces. The camera will be able to capture a maximum of 14 RAW photographs in a burst. It can capture images in the image ratios 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, and 6:6. And when you shoot in RAW the image ratio will recorded in the EXIF data. The first lenses to be released will be a 14-42mm f/3.5-f/5.6 zoom lens and a 17mm f/2.8 prime lens.

The camera will also have a 720p HD movie mode, but there is still no mentioning of the available framerates. Recording will be on SD and SDHC cards with a maximum duration of 7 minutes in HD mode and 14 minutes in SD mode.

More news tomorrow.

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The Sigma DP2 is now officially announced and the Sigma website know has more information and samples. The most noticable improvements and new features are:

• JPEG fps increased over the DP1 from 3 to 4 fps


• ISO 50-1600


• orientation is now recorded to the images


• the color mode is now selectable (standard, vivid, neutral, portrait, landscape, black & white, sepia)


• in-camera settings like contrast and sharpness are now editable


• the camera now only has program, aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual (the auto exposure mode was removed)


• they added another "My Settings" increasing the my settings to three


• real-time histogram!


• and interval timing

In combination with the faster 41mm lens this looks like a great camera to me. But typically Sigma, they still mention no release date.

Update: According to Amateur Photographer (via RAWsumer Blog), the DP2 is coming to the United States later this month!

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Three members of the flickr group SeriousCompacts.com joined together to start a collaborative blog.

Erik Ahrend, Ronald Bunnik and I (Wouter Brandsma), three photographers with different backgrounds, different perceptions of the World around us, different influences, and different styles of photography, started a collaborative photoblog with the intention to make and post photographs based on themes or ideas. Why? To challenge ourselves, broaden our views, have fun and learn from each other. To get out of our comfort zone and think outside the box.

Feel free to have a look. Sharedphotography

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