Photography News

Photokina 2010- What to expect?

Photokina 2010- What Can Photographers Expect?

August 2010, Carl Garrard

With Photokina just under 50 days away now, there's a lot of anticipation of what will be coming in the Photography business. I have some comments on Photokina this year as well as some predictions on what we can possibly expect to see from major manufacturers. 

A700- Skipping Control Wheel Issue

A700 Owners- Relief May Be in Sight!

The known issue with skipping menu items and settings as a result of using the control wheel(s) has now become commonplace with A700 owners. There are several ways to tackle this issue so that the control wheels operate back to normal. The A700 will eventually gather dust or foreign particles into the control wheel housing causing some skipping to eventually take place.

Sony Commercial with Nigel Barker, Peyton Manning, and Justin Timberlake

Here is a new commerical endorsed by Nigel Barker, Peyton Manning, and Justin Timberlake that is linked on NigelBarker.tv. Not a bad start for Alpha products aired on national television! If you haven't seen the video yet, I think it's worth a look. What do you think?

New Ricoh CX4 Arrives

RICOH CX4 Arrives

Ricoh *hasn't informed press yet but the camera indeed is clearly showing on Ricoh's home page:

A full brochure of the camera can be found in a pdf link here:

New Nikon D3100 DSLR

Camera News- New Nikon D3100 DSLR Announced

August 2010, Carl Garrard

 Nikon D3100 Front  Nikon D3100 Top  Nikon D3100 Back

PMA 2010- AlphaMountWorld Show Coverage and Updates

PMA 2010- AlphaMountWorld Show Coverage

February 2010, Carl Garrard (Last Updated 2-23 7:56 am PST)

 PMA 2010 (click me, I grow) Well, it's arrived everyone. PMA 2010 officially starts Sunday February 21, at 10am Pacific Time Zone. Press (that means AMW included as well) will get a sneak peak on Saturday, but most of the news should come starting early Sunday. We will be attending PMA and covering the Sony Alpha booth and other related booths as well. We will update our coverage here as soon as we can compile it all and get it uploaded. Most likely the 'big press' will give you all the hot stuff sooner than we can, but I intend on getting a bit different coverage (as well as any big news) up here. Hopefully we can offer some additional and unique coverage more specific to our cause here at AlphaMountWorld.

Sony Alpha A450 DSLR- Coming to America? Not likely.

Sony A450 DSLR Announced

January 2010, Carl Garrard

 Sony Alpha A450 DSLR (front)  Sony Alpha A450 DSLR (Top)  Sony Alpha A450 (3/4 View) Sony Alpha A450 DSLR (Rear)

Sony starts off the year early curiously announcing the Alpha A450 DSLR, which looks as though it won't be a model available to Canada, the United States, or the South American territories as it was not reported to the press as a model available in these countries (at least not yet). Unless there is a future press release, it appears as though this model will not be available in these regions at this time. So while the following isn't a review per se, we thought we'd talk a bit about it here instead.

New Ricoh GRD III Feature Enhancing Firmware Update

November 26, 2009 (Happy Thanksgiving U.S!)

Ricoh releases first function-enhancing firmware update for GR DIGITAL III

Tokyo, Japan – November 26 – Ricoh Co., Ltd. (President and CEO: Shiro Kondo) announced today that it will release on December 1 the first function-enhancing firmware update for its GR DIGITAL III, a high image quality compact digital camera launched in August 2009.

DxO Optics Version 6.0 Released

DxO Optics Version 6.0 Released

November 2009, Andrew Woodhouse

DxO have today announced the launch of their latest version of Optics Pro, version 6.0. This version brings with it a completely redesigned user interface with much more customization, something which is designed to make the whole raw processing experience easier.