This is how the Samsung NX1 takes the perfect Baseball shot :)

Unlike so many other companies Samsung is very openly disclosing the details of their new NX1 camera tech. In an interview at Imaging Resource Samsung manager Jay Kelbley shared many small details about the new sensor and other camera tech innovations. The video on top shows one of the new curious features of the NX1 which can detect a moving object and take a picture when this happens! Perfect for taking pictures of your kids playing baseball :)

Jay explains how this works:

Yeah, every four milliseconds, the DRIMe V hardware clocks in the image, searches for the ball, and calculates the ball’s position change and rate of change of position, and predicts the moment that the ball will pass the reference. The speed can vary over quite a range, but the hardware rejects objects moving too fast or too slow.

And all goes merit to the new DrimeV engine that can read all(!) 28 megapixels, at 240 times a second!

This is probably one of the most innovative products we had this year at Photokina. This could finally become Samsung first camera to actually generate significant sales after so many unsuccessful years!

Preorders:
NX1 body only at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
NX1 with kit lens at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
50-150mm lens at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here),
ED-BC4NX03 Charger at Adorama (Click here),
NX1 battery at Adorama (Click here),
NX1 vertical grip at Adorama (Click here),

 

New digital Bolex lenses now ready to ship after two years of development.

After 2 years in development, the Digital Bolex/Kish Optics Series 1 Primes are now available to order through DigitalBolex.com.

Theese are all C-mount lenses and those are the specs:

– Kish/Bolex Series 1: 10mm F4 Prime Lens for $395.00
– Kish/Bolex Series 1: 18mm F4 Prime Lens for $375.00
– Kish/Bolex Series 1: 38mm F4 Prime Lens for $350.00

Image samples can be seen on their site!

Canons ays they will become serious with mirrorless!

Finally the giant is waking up form the long sleep and promises to get serious on the mirrorless front. In an interview at Dpreview Canon stated:

In the very near future you can expect us to show something in terms of mirrorless and also a higher resolution sensor.

Sounds like they are going after the Sony A7r!!!

At last some hint from Nikon: “large-sensor mirrorless” could come in future.

Toshiaki Akagi from Nikon finally gave us hope to see a “serious” Nikon mirrorless camera any time soon. He said:

We don’t want to deny the possibility of future large-sensor mirrorless cameras. So maybe if there is enough demand we may be able to provide another type of mirrorless camera with larger sensors. This is one of the solutions.

Would be good to have a mirrorless FM styled camera or not?

Source: Dpreview.

The Photokina video interview roundup!

P.S.: Kai from Digitalrev pretty much summed up the this year Photokina “unexciting” stuff.

Personal View shows a good list of video interview that might be interesting for you. So here they are

Zeiss Pentax interview on Vimeo.
Leica interview on Vimeo (part one and part two).
Fuji interview on Vimeo (part one and part two).
Samsung interview on Vimeo.
Blackmagic interview on Vimeo.
Sony (28-135mm Cine lens) interview on Vimeo.
Uematsu (Panasonic) interview on Vimeo.
SLR magic interview on Vimeo.
Panasonic interview on Youtube.
Michael Guthmann (Olympus) interview on Vimeo.