Shoot Videos in Full-HD on the Fujifilm Z900 EXR For $280 [Cameras]

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Pine away all you want for the X100, but at that price , and with delays caused by the Japanese disaster of last month, it's not entering your pocket anytime soon.

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Fujifilm resumes production on X100 cameras, new-age vintage is rolling again

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Fujifilm has a hit on its hands with the retrotastic X100 camera, selling for a whopping $1,200 but still flying off shelves.

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Sigma confirms pricing and availabilty for DP2x compact camera: $800, late-April

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Sigma provided most of the details for its new DP2x compact camera when it announced it back in February, but it left out two key ones: pricing and availability.

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Sony NEX-3 discontinued, probably has NEX-5 to blame

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A dark shadow has befallen the Sony NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera, the shadow of being described as "no longer in production" by its maker's official website. Coming out in June of last year alongside its more celebrated NEX-5 brother, the NEX-3 enjoyed some decent success with critics, mostly owing to its oversized 14.2 megapixel sensor, and showed no signs of struggling commercially, however Sony has seen fit to halt production within eight months of its introduction.

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NEC uses active noise cancellation for quieter zooming into your future memories

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NEC just injected a little Bose up in some digital cameras, adding what it calls "noise suppression technologies" to Casio's new EX-ZR10 and promising that it will be deployed "throughout the digital camera and video camera markets" soon. The tech is designed to combat the evil intrusion of noise from optical zoom motors, working with a recording of what the zoom motor sounds like inside the camera. The shooter's internal circuitry then subtracts that noise from what's being recorded and, hey presto, silent zoomin'! NEC indicates a camera's microphone still captures other, desirable ambient noise without issue and that this tech allows the use of faster, more powerful motors for faster, more powerful zooming.

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Sony releases specifications for E-mount lenses, desperately wants you to build some

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Some interchangeable lens standards have been around for ages. Others, however, are rather more modern contrivances, and Sony's E-mount definitely falls in that latter category.

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