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Samsung confirms NX1000 pricing, availability

Samsung's NX1000 compact system camera. Click for our Samsung NX1000 preview!Last month, Samsung demonstrated its commitment to the mirrorless camera market with no less than three new models: the Samsung NX20 being its new flagship, the Samsung NX210 sitting mid-range, and the Samsung NX1000 marking the entry point for the trio.

At the time, the company revealed pricing and availability for the NX20 and NX210, but only provided a ship date for the...

Mirrorless is the future, suggests Samsung imaging head

Samsung's logo. Click to visit the Samsung website!An article published today by the Wall Street Journal offers an interesting insight into the future of the camera market, as Samsung sees it. WSJ correspondent Jung-Ah Lee interviewed Myoung Sup Han, Senior Vice President and Head of the Digital Imaging Business at Samsung Electronics, and uncovered an interesting fact: the company is in the process of converting production lines...

Samsung untangles the future, with three new WiFi-connected mirrorless cameras

Samsung's NX20 compact system camera. Photo provided by Samsung. Click for our Samsung NX20 preview!Demonstrating its faith in the future of the compact system camera market, and in mirrorless cameras' ability to triumph over the SLR, Samsung has today launched three new models for its NX series. There's much shared between the flagship Samsung NX20, and its two siblings, the mid-range Samsung NX210 and entry-level Samsung NX1000. All three also share DNA with the existing...

New firmware from Canon, Eye-Fi, Ricoh, Samsung, and Sony

Sony's Alpha SLT-A77 Translucent Mirror camera. Photo provided by Sony. Click for our Sony A77 preview!New firmware updates seem to be rolling in faster than we can keep up with them lately. That might mean more typing for us, but it's great news for photographers out there: it means products that are more stable, and occasionally, that offer new features.

First of all, Canon's EOS-1D Mark IV gets a new update to firmware version 1.1.1, available immediately from the Canon USA...

Samsung Dishes; We Report

Samsung's logo. Click here to visit the Samsung website!We had the opportunity recently to participate in an industry roundtable with top Korean executives from Samsung. Attending from the industry side were representatives of DP Review, Engadget, Laptop Magazine, and Reviewed.com, as well as Imaging Resource. Samsung executives participating in the roundtable session were:

  • Mr. Byungdeok Nam, Senior Vice President, R&D Team,...

New Life for Dying Digicams? A little WiFi Love from Samsung…

Samsung's logo. Click here to visit the Samsung website!We recently met with top Samsung executives in South Korea, discussing their product plans and vision for the future. We talked about many things, much of which is covered in a separate interview digest, but it was Samsung's strategy to save the pocket camera that we found interesting enough to warrant its own article. With everyone in the camera business nervously watching the...

Samsung NX200 review posted!

Samsung NX200 compact system camera. Copyright © 2012, The Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.With a whole new look on the outside, the Samsung NX200 gets quite a few internal upgrades compared to its predecessor, not the least of which is its 20-megapixel sensor. Combined with a new lens design and a slick menu system, we found the Samsung NX200 a kick to use. We were most impressed with the improved image quality and faster autofocus, and a few of the special Smart...

Fight the spaghetti with Samsung’s latest cameras

Samsung's WB150F digital camera. Click for our Samsung WB150F preview!If you're a fan of electronic gadgets, your desk probably looks much like ours: covered in a tangled spaghetti of cables. And yet despite the fact they're seemingly multiplying before your very eyes, you can never seem to lay your hands on the one you need at any given moment.

Two recently-announced cameras from Samsung do their best to help you fight cable mountain, with...

Is beauty more than skin deep for Samsung SD cards?

Samsung's High Speed Series SD card, in its highest-available capacity. Photo provided by Samsung Electronics America, Inc.You've doubtless heard that old adage, "true beauty lies within". So, it would seem, has consumer electronics giant Samsung. It's apparently taken the saying to heart, introducing a new series of flash cards to the US market that court the fashion-conscious.

First offered in Asia back in late 2009, followed by a European launch last year, Samsung's SD and microSD cards are...

Kodak: Yet another lawsuit from cash-strapped icon

Kodak's logo. Click here to visit the Kodak website!What to do, when your cash reserves are low and you're struggling to turn your company around? For Eastman Kodak Co., the answer seems to be to give up on attempting to negotiate patent licenses with rivals, and instead to turn to the courts. The company has today announced the latest in a series of suits against major names in the imaging and consumer electronics industries.

A...

Samsung interview: How do cameras fit in a connected world?

Samsung's Jay Kelbley. Image copyright© 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.At the Consumer Electronics Show, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells met up with Jay Kelbley, Senior Marketing Manager (NX SLRs) at Samsung Electronics, continuing our interview series.

With camera phones rapidly encroaching on the lower end of the camera market, manufacturers are looking for areas in which...

Samsung WB850F, WB150F, ST200F: Three new wifi-capable cameras, one with GPS

Samsung's WB850F digital camera. Photo provided by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.As the Consumer Electronics Show prepares to kick off in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has today introduced three new wifi-capable digital cameras, all of which work in harmony with a newly-launched cloud service.

The Samsung WB850F, WB150F, and ST200F differ quite a bit in terms of form factor and basic specification, but all three include updated, Samsung...

Samsung ST76, ST66: A duo of entry-level digicams revealed

Samsung's ST76 digital camera. Photo provided by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.Samsung has today announced two new entry-level models for its ST-series of compact digital cameras.

The Samsung ST76 and Samsung ST66 are fairly closely related, although their body styling does differ. The most notable difference between the two is the inclusion of optical image stabilization in the ST76, a function that's absent from the ST66. Both cameras have slim brushed...

Live Q&A with Canon on G1X and Nikon on D4; multiple manufacturer interviews

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As CES 2012 gets ready to roll, we've scheduled two Live Q&A sessions tonight that will let readers put their thoughts and questions to the manufacturers directly, on a couple of the most exciting digital cameras announced thus far. (Update: The Q&As are both now over, but you can read the archived sessions in our Canon G1 X preview and Nikon D4 preview pages.)

If you have a...

Samsung’s Latest DualView Offering - the DV300F - Brings Further Innovation to Highly Popular Category

Samsung DV300F digital camera. Image courtesy Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Enhanced Dual LCD and Wi-Fi connectivity for users to capture and share life’s moments in an instant, from both sides of the lens

Ridgefield Park, NJ – January 2, 2012 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies today unveiled a new addition to its market-leading Samsung DualView® line, the DV300F. With...

Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba Join Forces to Collaborate on Next Generation Secure Memory Solution

Five Companies plan to jointly form 'Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative'

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SanDisk Corporation, Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they have reached an agreement in principle to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such...

Samsung NX200 test shots posted!

Samsung's NX200 compact system camera. Image provided by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.We've just posted a full set of test shots from a Samsung NX200 compact system camera, straight from the lab!

The NX200 is based around a new APS-C sized CMOS image sensor with a resolution of 20.3 megapixels, developed by Samsung, and offering sensitivity to a maximum of ISO 12,800 equivalent. The Samsung NX200's sensor offers swift seven frames-per-second burst shooting at...