Just posted! Our preview samples gallery featuring Olympus’ brand new telezoom for the Micro Four Thirds system, the M Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4-5.6. This compact lightweight lens is designed to complement the company’s Pen series cameras, and is due in the shops at the end of next month. Click through to get a flavor of its capabilities and image quality.
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With this nForce 790i SLI Digital PWM mainboard, EVGA has gone to extreme measures to create a killer board for the most extreme gamers. It’s based on the NVIDIA nForce 790 SLI chipset and designed for Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Pentium EE, and Pentium processors (including 45nm). Featuring an EVGA enthusiast BIOS for extended range voltage settings, 100% solid state capacitors, 100% ferrite core chokes and an advanced 8 phase digital PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) power supply solution, this high-performance platform delivers incredible overclocking. The EVGA 790i SLI FTW Digital PWM works flawlessly with extreme FSB (1600/1333/1066/800MHz) and DDR3 speeds (2000/1600/1333/1066MHz), and 3-WAY SLI! Plus, true 2 x16 PCI-Express and PCI Express 2.0. Check out the specs just make sure you’re sitting down. This ATX board supports dual-channel DDR3 memory wtih EPP up to 8GB and also supports up to 20000MHz SLi-ready memory, SATA II with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD, 7.1-channel audio, DUAL Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, and IEEE 1394. This board even set 4 new performance world records at NVIDIA’s NVISION in August 2008.
Nikon has unveiled the D3100, its latest entry-level offering and its first DSLR that can record full 1080p HD videos. Successor to the popular D3000, it is built around a 14.2 CMOS sensor and a 3 inch LCD. As well as movies it gains Live View shooting, a wider ISO range ( 100-3200 expandable to 12800) and a host of small revisions. The camera will be available soon at a retail price of £579.99 / €599 with the 18-55mm VR lens. We’ve been given access to a pre-production version of the camera which we’ve used to prepare a hands-on preview, looking at the changes Nikon has made to its best-selling DSLR.
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As part of “Business Class” course, Yaniv designed a new form of professional camera called Digital Reflex Camera (DSLR). It has totally different shape from current cameras that you know. As project during his 3rd year as an industrial design student in Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, this DSLR concept is designed with its body and lens as continuation to elongate the camera body. This industrial designer got the inspiration from the use of the old reflex cameras where the eyepiece is located at the top of the camera. So, what do you think?
Yaniv says “The camera body and lens was designed as a continuation that connects to it, creating an elongated body curved end , that turns to the user interface along the side of the camera there is another interface which control the details of photography. I wanted to make a refreshing change at the accepted form of professional cameras,to soften it, but to maintain its professional appearance.
Through the use of camera I wanted to get different photography experience. I took inspiration from the use of the old reflex cameras, that the eyepiece was located at the top of the camera, and the photographer was cradling the camera close to his stomach during photography. So, I designed the camera to match the pose I was looking for , in the ergonomic sense.
Experience continues when you want to view the photos, when turning the camera, the interface turns to image display mode, the display is rotating 180 degrees and the screen is directed toward the observer.”
Designer : Yaniv Berg
The Advisor of the project : Eyal Cremer & Michel Shahnai
Photos : Sash Flit.
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As part of “Business Class” course, Yaniv designed a new form of professional camera called Digital Reflex Camera (DSLR). It has totally different shape from current cameras that you know. This DSLR concept is designed with its body and lens as continuation to elongate the camera body. This industrial designer got the inspiration from the use of the old reflex cameras where the eyepiece is located at the top of the camera. So, what do you think?
Yaniv says “The camera body and lens was designed as a continuation that connects to it, creating an elongated body curved end , that turns to the user interface along the side of the camera there is another interface which control the details of photography. I wanted to make a refreshing change at the accepted form of professional cameras,to soften it, but to maintain its professional appearance.
Through the use of camera I wanted to get different photography experience. I took inspiration from the use of the old reflex cameras, that the eyepiece was located at the top of the camera, and the photographer was cradling the camera close to his stomach during photography. So, I designed the camera to match the pose I was looking for , in the ergonomic sense.
Experience continues when you want to view the photos, when turning the camera, the interface turns to image display mode, the display is rotating 180 degrees and the screen is directed toward the observer.”
Designer : Yaniv Berg
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Casio has released the Exilim EX-S200 and EX-Z800 digital compacts. The 14MP image-stabilized cameras feature the company’s latest Exilim Engine 5.0 processor with ‘super-resolution’ context-sensitive image processing technology. Both offer 4x zoom lenses starting a 27mm equivalent focal length and use the super resolution technology to improve the effect of the 1.5x digital zoom. They also share 2.7" LCDs and can record standard 720p HD videos. The identical specced cameras differ physically with the EX-S200 maintaining the S series’ slim body while the EX-Z800 features a slightly larger Zoom series design.
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