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Olympus shows off next-gen top-end SLR

Stephen Shankland, Crave.CNET.com | Mar 12, 2007

Olympus has been short on details other than to say the camera will ship this year. In addition, the company said the new model would be rugged and weatherproof for the demanding conditions of professional photographers.

The camera prototype was on display at the Photo Marketing Association trade show here. It featured a main camera body and a detachable grip for taking vertically oriented shots and--if other manufacturers' products are anything to go by--for housing more batteries.

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Sigma's compact DP1 gets some exposure

Stephen Shankland, Crave.CNET.com | Mar 12, 2007

Each pixel in a Foveon sensor can detect red, green and blue light, a different approach compared to most "Bayer pattern" sensors that have a checkerboard of pixels that only capture a single color. The Foveon sensors have been used earlier in Sigma's SLR cameras. The camera image has a resolution of 4.7-megapixels, but each pixel has all three colors; most cameras have only one color and extrapolate values for the others.

The DP1 also has a 2.5-inch display, a fixed 28mm lens, a hot shoe to mount an external flash and support for RAW images taken directly from the sensor without in-camera processing.

The camera is due to ship in the US this summer, Sigma said, but the company isn't releasing price details. At press time, the regional distributor for Sigma in Asia was unable to furnish further details either.

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