It’s either a very nice Photoshop job. Or the latest addition to Fujifilm’s growing X series family: Meet the not yet released Fujifilm FinePix XF1 (or XP1, could be either). A stylish, compact, elegant X series with a relatively fast F1.8-4.9 lens and a 25-100mm 4x zoom equivalent (based on the X10‘s likely similar 2/3″ […]
It’s pre-Photokina 2012, so any day might bring exciting news. To follow up on our earlier rumor on an X-1, THEME nailed it, there is a new X series lineup. Et voilà, here’s the Fujifilm X-E1. Japanese site digicame-info.com leaks press release type of photos of a Fujifilm X-E1 mirrorless camera not yet announced, along […]
We’re a photography site, but as the iPhone dramatically changed the way people take pictures this can very well pass as a photography post. iPhoneography is a photography game changer, just to mention the myriad of apps that can give you a DSLR look shot with a smartphone. Word on the street is is the […]
Chances are that already in your childhood you used an electronic product made by Sharp. Today the Japanese multinational produces about anything electronic you can imagine, such as LCD panels, solar panels, mobile phones, entertainment equipment, video projectors, printers, microwave ovens, air conditioners, cash registers, flash memory — and even CCD and CMOS sensors. This […]
The world has become one big, giant “Big Brother is watching you.” Major cities have thousands and thousands of security cameras installed. It’s even impossible to analyze all the footage. Most of it remains unseen and gets forgotten in the abyss of huge, endless storage devices. But wait! Someone other than police and security forces […]
Stefan Daniel, head of product management at Leica, sat down with THEME to talk about Leica of the past, present and future. You’ll understand that Mr. Daniel can’t give specific answers to the questions we all want to be answered, such as “What about the M10,” “Leica’s rumored compact system camera,” and so forth. Expecting […]
It will still take a while. Official announcement is planned for Photokina this September in Cologne, Germany. But late prototype models of the successors to the Olympus PEN cameras E-PL3 and E-PM1 are about to be shown to trusted sources. With the updating of the mid- and lower-end PENs Olympus attempts to further differentiate and […]
Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has an in-depth interview with Fujifilm’s president Shigetaka Komori, the concern director who ushered in the reorganization of Fujifilm — just to mention the introduction of two nutrition and cosmetics product lines in 2006. What, you ask, has a traditional film company to do with nutrition and cosmetics? Japan’s large […]
Remember, he not only uncovered an $1,7 billion Olympus accounting fraud that cost the Japanese camera-to-endoscope maker Olympus its board and reputation. He also uncovered the infamous side of corporate Japan that Olympus quickly wants to forget. Now Michael Woodford, the ousted Olympus chief executive, has reached an out-of-court settlement with his former employer for […]
Horst Faas, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of the Associated Press staff in Saigon that produced the most haunting photographs of the Vietnam War, died on May 10, 2012, in his native Germany. He was 79. Faas survived many conflicts and wars. He was at the front of documenting terror and […]
You’re about to learn that mirrorless cameras sell mainly to women. A report by the Wall Street Journal’s Asia technology editor Daisuke Wakabayashi claims that 70% of the buyers of Panasonic’s mirrorless cameras are female, making the mirrorless models booming in an otherwise stagnant camera market hurt by the growing competition from smartphones. And that […]
And some thought the camera is a dying breed. The all-in-one über-smart dream device combining camera, phone, Playstation and whatever remains as desired as illusive. Or as Apple chief executive Tim Cook put it, some products should not be brought together. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but you know those things are […]
Sooner or later Canon has to jump into the mirrorless fray. Sure they’re losing market share. On the other hand they maneuvered themselves into a comfortable position: observe the competition’s trial and errors, learn from others’ mistakes — and proceed from there with a lineup hopefully mature, thought-out and unique enough right from the start. […]
