Canon to make a Historic Global Announcement on Nov 3rd

Canon may finally be getting into the compact Interchangeable Lens Camera market in 2012. The leader in DSLR and point-and-shoot segement, Canon is the remaining holdout in this popular new area of photography. Perennial Archrival Nikon has already played its hand with the Nikon N1 which will be available soon. Canon still has to consider Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Panasonic and Fujifilm which all have appealing small models with alre sensors and a variety of lenses.

Review: Lensbaby Composer with Tilt Transformer for Olympus Micro 4/3

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Lensbaby's popular Composer with Tilt Transformer is now available for the Olympus Micro Four Thirds PEN system and Sony's NEX APS-C sensor system. This gives photographers using these compact yet capable cameras the ability to vary their shooting repertoire in a number of ways and in various conditions.

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Panasonic reveals DMC-FZ47 with fast 24X Optical Zoom

Powered by a 12.1-megapixel Hi-Speed CCD sensor, the LUMIX FZ47 ($399) can produce the highspeed, large-capacity signal processing required for 1920 x 1080 full-HD video recording in theAVCHD format, and high-speed continuous shooting.

The Venus Engine FHD processor helps create superb image quality in both photo and video recording, while also powering the Intelligent Resolution technology to perform the optimum signal processing. With Intelligent Resolution, the LUMIX FZ47’s zoom can be extended 1.3x times to a 32x zoom length. The LUMIX FZ47 can take high-resolution consecutive shots at 3.7 fps in 12.1-megapixel full resolution and maximum 10 fps at 3-megapixel recording. The LUMIX FZ47 ships in August.

Review: Samsung PL150 dual-screen digital camera

Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Samsung’s gone full throttle with the innovation on the PL150, their $249.00 point-and-shoot camera with a dual LCDs and a slew of features unseen anywhere else. Many of the innovations don’t just make sense; they’re downright brilliant. But a few of the features seem unnecessary and frankly are head scratchers, is there such a thing as too much innovation on one device?

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