Nikon P300 low light shooting pocket camera

Another contender to the low light pocket shooting camera category, this on from Nikon packs an iso 3200 sensitivity (no word on noise produced whilst doing it though) and a f1.8 lens on it’s widest setting (equivalent to 24mm on a 35mm camera)…

The P300 pairs a 12.1-megapixel backside-illuminated CMOS image sensor (which picks up more light than a standard CMOS sensor) with a fast f1.8 lens. Max ISO is 3200. And it shoots 1080p video at 30fps.

It’s also got a new easy panorama mode seemingly borrowed from Sony’s pocketcams, creative filters like faux fisheye and a built-in HDR mode that combines multiple shots at different exposures in camera to create HDR shots.

via Gizmodo

Olympus’s f1.8, $499 compact camera

This looks like one seriously impressive compact camera, primarily because it’s packing a 6-24mm, f1.8-2.5 lens, which will be very impressive at low light for those gorgeous narrow depth of field shots…

We had a feeling the Olympus XZ-1 would be a winner, and Digital Photography Review seems to think so, too — it called the 10 megapixel, full-manual point and shoot “the best photographers’ compact currently available” at the end of a thorough review. Most of the praise was heaped on that F1.8-2.5 Zuiko lens, providing an “unbeaten combination of range and brightness” whose potent, detailed low-light performance was practically enough to cancel out the publication’s worries about the lack of a adjustable noise reduction setting.

Yours for $499 in the US

via Engadget.

Camera armor skin

Loving this camera protection skin, genius idea, I like to keep the camera out and available, this would be a nice way of avoiding destroying the kit in the process…

Camera Armor is a rugged, lightweight skin, molded from specially engineered silicone that fits your camera like a glove. The precise fit helps protect your camera from everyday bumps, abrasion, dust and fingerprints, plus allows full access to all controls, compartments and ports.

via Amazon.co.uk

The Nikon D3s, the Low-Light King

Interesting write up of upgrading your camera body to get higher light sensitivity…

A few weeks later I got called out to shoot another concert, this time in a quasi-venue/quasi-practice space/quasi-basement in New Jersey called the Starland Ballroom. Still reeling from the horrors of missing the once in a lifetime Julian Casablancas photo, I showed up to the venue feeling a bit uneasy. Sure, I knew the D3s was theoretically capable of ISOs reaching 12,800, but I had no idea how the quality would be—and I had my doubts that the highest ISO would be able to get a solid image in such poor lighting.

via Popular Science.

Peter Jackson grab thirty RED 5k digital cameras to film The Hobbit

Great choice, should lead to some seriously complex live action shots…

The Lord of the Rings director will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, starting early next year. That’s the news straight from RED founder Jim Jannard, but that’s not all, as a limited number of pre-production EPIC packages will be available to early adopters as well. $58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding director a machined EPIC-M body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, a REDmote, a four-pack of batteries, a charger and a solid state storage module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs.

via Engadget.

Rugged FullHD video system captures

This camera looks awesome, I love the uptake of these systems for high quality point of view shots in HD…

Its two-ounce IP67 certified camera sports a six-element glass lens and a native 1080p CMOS sensor that can capture a 142 degree field-of-view — claimed to be the widest on the market — in full HD at 30fps. The head unit can also be adjusted to record 720p at 60fps with a 92 degree FOV for faster shots. A separate recording unit features Texas Instruments’ latest Da Vinci DM368 processor and supports a real-time video pipeline while storing up to 4.3 hours of 1080p H.264 video footage on a 32GB of SDHC.

At $599 I think it represents very good value.

via Engadget.

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