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Canon are showing a teaser for a new DSLR. Of course, I’m hoping this is going to be the 5D replacement but we should find out in the next couple of weeks.

Panasonic have announced they intend to release a replacement for the L10 (their 4:3s camera) on the 12th of September.

Could this be the first Micro 4:3s model? Could this be a rendering of the camera? Unlikely since it’s not a DSLR but it would not surprise me if it’s something like this but with an EVF added.

We’ll soon see that they have planned though.

O2 UK have announced the release date for the iPhone G3 on Pay-As-You-Go. It will be available direct from them, Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores as of the 16th of September.

The prices are pretty high at £350 and £400 for the 8 and 16Gb versions but it does include 12 months of ‘unlimited’ Internet usage. After that, you can continue this for £10 per month. The effective price is therefore more like £230 and £280.…

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DPReview has posted sample images from the 50D and some sample images / videos from the D90.

The images from the 50D are pretty good, especially considering the 50% jump in mega-pixels. The 1600 ISO image of a copper plate showing a ship is remarkably free from noise while still retaining plenty of detail.

There’s no 1600 ISO image for the D90 but there are two 3200 ISO ones. Personally, I think these two images (crocodile &…

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Adobe has posted a ‘reminder’ page for a webcast about Creative Studio 4. You enter your name and email, they post you a reminder of the webcast which is set for the 23rd.

I’ve added user bookmarking buttons to the blog today. These appear on the blog posting lists (standard, search and archive) as well the bottom of each individual posting.

Pressing them allows you to submit the post to any of the 4 services - digg, reedit, delicious and/or stumbleupon. The first 3 require you to have an account to make the submission but stumbleupon seems to allow anyone to add pages.

Implementation with digg.com

If you are implementing digg.com…

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Samsung have announced that they are going to make a new camera system using a APS-C sensor, interchangeable lenses and use a smaller body than a DSLR.

It sounds a lot like the Micro 4:3 system but they are reputedly going to use the sensor from the GX-20. This is definitely not a 4:3 system sensor.

Why they would decide not to go with the 4:3 system is unclear. Surely it would be better to have a…

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I’ve updated the blog code today, making several changes…

• The RSS feed, main blog post list, archive view and search now use ‘excerpts’ to make the list of posts easier to navigate. Before this, one post could extend down most of the page and make it difficult to see any new posts.
• The format of the Google Adverts has been changed. I’ve noticed some insanely bad advertising on this site, seemingly because the only text being scanned…

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If you have a Apple Mac and a Nikon you might want to take a look at the press release on the Nikon / Microsoft agreement that’s just been announced.

There was some speculation that the NRW format used in the new Nikon P6000 might be locked into Windows and after seeing this I’m starting to think there may be some grounds for these concerns.

I using Canon equipment at the moment and while I had considered…

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Nikon have a number of sample movies taken with the new D90 on this page. They look pretty impressive but I still think it’s a shame the are not AVC based instead of Motion-JPEG.

Incidentally, Sony have released a new wide-screen digicam which also records 720p video but does use AVC. It’s the Cyber-shot T500. Recording is still limited though, this time to a maximum of 10 minutes per section. In other respects, this model is no match for the D90.