Mirrorless news roundup…

Capture Professional Looking Portraits with a Sony Alpha Camera and Kit Lens

Working With The Fuji 50-140mm Zoom Lens (Luminous Landscape).
Super tiny macro lens on the A7 (SonyAlphaForum).
Sample Images From the Sigma dp3 Quattro (SigmaRumors).
Samsung NX3000 – Affordable, Stylish, Mirrorless Camera (TheDigitalStory).
NX1 is the camera of the year for Photographyblog.
New NX1 Video-Dedicated Firmware: Review (SamsungCameraRumors).
Samsung S 50-150mm f/2.8 ED OIS Lens Review (ePhotozine).
REVIEW / Sigma dp1 Quattro: Incredible Photos and Sluggish Responsiveness (Digitalversus).
Samsung NX1 review at Admiringlight.

We love that: Canon shows a new 120 megapixel sensor!

Guys! Be prepared. Soon you will have to buy ton of hardware to handle the 120 megapixel photos that the new Canon sensor will take!

Dpreview reports:

Its surface area is halfway between APS-C and full-frame, and it appears to be mostly directed at video applications, capable of recording at approximately 60x the resolution of Full HD. The frame rate of read-out for this ultra high-resolution is 9.5fps, and is made possible by reading multiple pixels simultaneously at high speeds – a process Canon is calling ‘parallel signal processing’. The 120 million pixels – of 2.2 µm pixel pitch – are contained on a sensor 29.2mm x 20.2mm in size, yielding pixel dimensions of 13280×9184.

We love that new crazy Megapixel race! Finally we can take 100+ Megapixel shots of our beloved cats sitting on a sofa :)

Sigma just announced a DP0 Quattro with 14mm lens

The camera is now listed at BHphoto (Click here) and has the following key specs:

29MP Foveon X3 Quattro CMOS Image Sensor
TRUE III Image Processing Engine
14mm f/4 Lens (35mm Equivalent: 21mm)
3.0″ 920k-dot TFT LCD Screen
ISO Range: 100-6400 in 1/3 Steps
RAW Image Capture
Max RAW Resolution of 5424 x 3616
Contrast Detection Autofocus
Manual Focus Ring
P/S/A/M Exposure Control

Mayflower believes it’s not the smartphones that almost “Killed” the digital compact camera market..

Mayflower posted a completely different theory that explains why the digital compact camera and the system camera sales are falling dramatically.

They blame the poor usability and lack of customer oriented camera development. In short it’s time for the camera manufacturers to develop a sort of iPhone alike friendly camera. Ok that was veeeery simplified from me :)