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Business news: Arrests at Olympus, nearly $1 billion for Kodak, February 16, 2012
And now time for business updates on the two former Four Thirds leaders that have fallen on hard times in recent years (for different reasons)... OlympusGate has entered a new stage today, with Japanese authorities arresting seven, including a former... Continue

Pentax road-maps lenses for K-, Q- and 645- mounts (2012 & beyond), February 15, 2012
To help sort things out after the CP+ announcement-a-geddon, Pentax has published three separate lens roadmaps for their three active interchangeable lens camera systems, the K-mount, Q-mount and 645. They cover 2012, 2013 and beyond. As usual with lens roadmaps,... Continue

Lensbaby announces new tiltable Edge 80 creature (reviewed already), February 14, 2012
The stork has delivered a new Lensbaby, it is the Edge 80, a tiltable creature that is compatible with their Optic Swap system. Already, there is a 3-page quick review of this at dpreview by their resident lensaholic and also... Continue

Silver Lining: Olympus camera business losses are improving, February 13, 2012
Olympus announced their latest quarterly and fiscal year financial results, and the camera division has a big silver lining: the losses are not as bad as they used to be! The latest trio of E-Pens is partially credited for the... Continue

Fuji showing M-mount adapter for X-Pro at CP+, February 9, 2012
We take a quick break from the CP+ round-up with a new development: at the CP+ trade show, La Vida Leica has spotted at the Fuji booth, behind glass, an adapter that will allow Leica M-lenses to be mounted on... Continue

Kodak will stop making digital cameras (phase out by June 2012), February 9, 2012
As a continuation of the financial troubles at Kodak, we now have news that the company will stop making digital cameras. Details at CNet and a variety of other websites (see via Techmeme). Check the Kodak press release announcing this... Continue

Pentax and Ricoh cameras will move under Pentax control, February 8, 2012
April 1st is the start of a new quarter, and for some companies the start of a new fiscal year, but it is also April Fool's Day, so perhaps it is a date to be avoided for any official business... Continue

Sony shows new NEX roadmap for 2012 & 2013, February 8, 2012
But wait there's more! At CP+ in Japan, Sony revealed a brand new lens roadmap for the NEX system, covering 2012 and 2013. Details at dpreview and Imaging Resource. Now that we caught up with all (?) the new camera... Continue

New Canon SX260 and SX240 superzooms [tape-delayed news], February 8, 2012
And we finally catch up (I think) with all the new camera announcements leading up to CP+ 2012 in Japan. Canon has announced a soccer/football team of new Powershots (11 new cameras). The stars of the team are the new... Continue

New Canon Elph 530HS (12x) & Elph 320HS (5x) with Wifi [tape-delayed news], February 8, 2012
We are slowly but steadily seeing an increase in Wifi in digital cameras. Some, especially people who follow smartphones, may be surprised that the percentage of 2012 cameras with Wifi is so low, but let's not be greedy. It took... Continue

Canon launches 2nd waterproof Powershot - the D20 [tape-delayed news], February 8, 2012
Canon and Nikon have been very slow to warm up to the waterproof/elementproof camera segment, but with the newly announced Powershot D20, they have two cameras each. The new D20 looks more "aggressive", less toyish but more ...fishy than the... Continue

Canon launches six A-series P&S compacts [tape-delayed news], February 8, 2012
And now time to catch up with the new Canon Powershot announcements that got buried in an avalanche of new camera announcements. Once storied and respected, the Canon A-series is now made up of entry-level P&S cameras. This announcement has... Continue

Sigma reveals two new APS-C prime cameras: the DP1 and DP2 Merrill, February 8, 2012
Sigma has revealed two new APS-C prime fixed lens digital cameras, the DP1 Merill and the DP2 Merill. If the name sounds familiar, it is because they are a tribute to Sigma/Foveon's Dick Merrill. The previous iterations of the DP-series... Continue

Sigma SD1 Price Wars Episode II: The Discount Menace (new SD1-Merrill for $2300), February 8, 2012
When Sigma initially revealed the $9700 price for the SD1 in May 2011, it generated a near universal unidirectional firestorm. Fast forward to now, and Sigma decided to bring the SD1 price down to earth, while at the same time... Continue

New Olympus E-M5 is officially announced!, February 7, 2012
Forty years after the initial launch of OM, Olympus is bringing it back with as OM-D, with the E-M5 as the first OM-styled Micro Four Thirds camera! Olympus has also announced two new M43rds lenses: 75/1.8 and 60/2.8 macro. Olympus... Continue

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