Canon PowerShot G9X Wins Red Dot Design Award

TOKYO, April 27, 2016 - Canon Inc. announced today that the Company's Powershot G9 X premium digital camera was honored for design excellence, winning the Red Dot Design Award: Product Design 2016. The internationally recognized "Red Dot" is organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein, a design institution based in Essen, Germany.

Red Dot Design Award : Product Design 2016 winning product

The Powershot G9 X features a compact, lightweight design, a 28-84 mm (35 mm film equivalent) 3x optical zoom lens and a 1.0 inch image sensor. Its luxury design, characteristic of a premium compact camera, features a touch-panel LCD and a control ring for intuitive operability that makes possible the effortless capture of high-quality images and video.

Encouraged by the recognition of the Company's design excellence, Canon will continue striving to realize products that combine the highest levels of performance and design.

Canon PowerShot G3X II Coming With Super Wide Angle Lens?

Egami, the Japanese photography blog has discovered a new Canon patent for a 9-240mm f/2.8-5.6 lens. Among other uses, the new lens may be designed for the eventual replacement of the PowerShot G3X camera, announced last July 2015.

Patent Publication No. 2016-31419

• Published 2016.3.7
• Filing date 2014.7.28

Example

• Zoom ratio 25.58
• Wide-angle intermediate telephoto
• Focal length 9.35 31.90 239.12
• F-number 2.88 4.93 5.76
• Half angle of view (degrees) 35.66 13.89 1.89
• The image height 6.71 7.89 7.89
• Overall length of the lens 94.81 119.61 197.21
• BF 2.97 19.89 29.86

Canon PowerShot G5X and G9X Coming Soon

* * *  Canon Powershot G5X available on Canon USA eStore  * * *

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Digicame of Japan has leaked photos and specs of the soon to be released Canon Powershot G5 X and Powershot G9 X cameras. Canon announced their most recent PowerShot model, the G3 X in June of this year.

The Powershot G5 X resembles a small DSLR and may be equipped with an EVF and the same focal length lens as the Powershot G7 X. The Powershot G9 X has a retro look to it and it smaller than the G5 X and G3X models.

Canon PowerShot G5 X camera

Canon Powershot G5 X specs :

•     Lens : 8.8-36.8mm F1.8-2.8 (equivalent 24-100mm F1.8-2.8)
•     Size : 112mm x 76mm x 44mm
•     Weight : 337g
•     LCD Monitor : 3 inches. 1.04 million dot

Canon PowerShot G9 X camera

Canon Powershot G9 X specs :

•     Sensor : 1 inches 20.2 MP back-illuminated
•     Lens : 10.2-30.6mm F2.0-4.9 (equivalent 28-85mm F2.0-4.9)
•     Size : 98mm x 58mm x 31mm
•     Weight : 209g
•     LCD Monitor : 3 inches. 1.04 million dot

Canon Powershot G17 Coming In October?

* * *  Canon Powershot G5X and G9X cameras coming soon  * * *

Canon recently announced the PowerShot G3X  camera. The G1X II and PowerShot G16 was released in 2014 and 2013 respectively.. The G1X II was my favorite PowerShot camera in the lineup but now the G3X has given the G1X II quite a bit of competition. Now Canon may be ready to release the PowerShot G17 camera as well, perhaps some time in October 2015.

Possible Specifications :

•     24-168mm
•     7x Optical Zoom
•     f/1.2-2.0 Lens
•     Electronic Viewfinder
•     DIGIC 6+ processor
•     Larger 1 inch sensor
•     3.2 inch LCD screen
•     WiFi and GPS
•     All magnesium body

The new camera may be slightly bigger and heavier than the G16 and the faster lens and larger sensor will be a welcome improvement in the PowerShot lineup.

Apple iPhone 6S Comes With 12MP 4K Camera?

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Apple is expected to unveil their iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S+ on September 9. The new phones apparently will come with a 12MP sensor camera and capable of recording 4K video.

In addition, the front camera may come with a flash and has been upgraded to shoot panorama shots and 720p in slow motion.

Rumor has it Apple is about to release an ad touting the theme,  “Shot in 4K on an iPhone” to coincide with the launch of the new phones. If true, some might say these new iPhones will make DSLR cameras 'obsolete'. Keep checking back for the latest development.

Apple iPhone 6S vs Canon Powershot G3X

* * *  Apple iPhone 6S, 6S Plus and iPad Pro announced  * * *

* * *  Read the latest post on new Adobe apps for iPhones and iPads  * * *

* * *  Read the latest post on the Apple iPhone 6S smartphones  * * *

Canon recently announced their top-of-the-line Powershot G3X camera and Apple is expected to release their iPhone 6S in September. A short while ago, Qualcomm boasted their soon-to-be-released SnapDragon 820 chip will enable smartphones to have 'DSLR quality' photography. Are smartphones really outsmarting DSLR cameras? You know the answer already.

I am off to a wildlife photo shoot in South Africa. Bringing my smartphone and DSLR cameras because they both perform different functions well.

The following is an excerpt from Business Insider on the upcoming iPhone 6S :

"The camera on the next iPhone will have a bigger sensor that can take in more light, and a lens that’s designed to work with that improved sensor. This means we can expect the iPhone 6S to capture higher quality photos than the iPhone 6.

Apple is currently ordering suppliers to produce five-element lenses for the iPhone 6S that are designed to work with 12-megapixel camera sensors, a person within Apple’s supply chain told Business Insider. These components are said to be in the mass production stage and are on schedule, this source said. 

This same person also said Apple is ordering six-element lenses for a future iPhone intended to be released after the iPhone 6S (presumably the iPhone 7). 

We’ve been hearing for months that the iPhone 6S will come with a 12-megapixel camera, but we haven’t heard much about what else to expect. Back in November, Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber said the next iPhone could come with the “biggest camera jump” we’ve seen in years. 
The importance of “elements”

An “element” refers to a layer of plastic that makes up a part of the whole lens in a camera. Each of these elements, or layers, actually functions as its own standalone lens. But when they’re combined into one lens, they allow a camera to capture more detailed and complex information. 

So, a five-element lens such as the one that’s in your smartphone’s camera could actually be considered as five lenses crammed into one, says Rajiv Laroia, the co-founder and CTO of Light, a photography startup that’s working on ways to fit cameras with multiple lenses inside smartphones. (In the iPhone, there’s also a sapphire glass cover that protects this plastic lens from getting scratched.)

Since smartphone cameras are so small, the lenses for these cameras are constructed from layers of high-quality plastic rather than glass. These small plastic lenses are easier to fit into small devices and are much cheaper to produce than glass. In fact, these lenses only cost $1 to produce, according to Laroia. 

Although the lens for the iPhone 6S will be made of five elements just like the one found in the current iPhone’s camera, it’s made of a higher specification so that it matches the new 12-megapixel sensor, this person in Apple’s supply chain said.

The six-element lens being considered for the iPhone 7 (or whatever it ends up being called) would only be on par with what competitors are already putting in their phones. 

The OnePlus 2?s camera, for example, packs a six-element lens with a 13-megapixel sensor. The Samsung Galaxy S5, which was released last year, is said to have a six-element lens as well. 

Our source also mentioned that other clients typically order six-element camera lenses rather than five-element lenses.  

A six-element camera lens allows a camera to absorb more light that a five-element lens would, which results in clearer and sharper images. In order to increase a camera’s aperture, which is essentially a passage that allows light to enter through the camera, you would need to add more elements to a camera’s lens, says Laroia. The larger the aperture, the more light can travel through the lens to the camera’s body, which in turn produces better photographs.

“If you want to collect more light, then you need more elements,” he said. 

Nothing is considered final until Apple reveals its next iPhone. Supply chain orders don’t always reflect how final products turn out, but it does give us an idea of what Apple might be experimenting with." 

Win A Unique Canon Rugby World Cup 2015 Experience

As an Official Sponsor of Rugby World Cup 2015, Canon is pleased to offer fans the chance to win one of eight unique photography experiences. Winners will get to shadow a Getty Images photographer at an official RWC 2015 open training session for one of the participating nations.

The prizes include :

• Pre-event preparation with the Getty Images photographer
• Loan of Canon equipment (DSLR Kit Bag)
• Shoot the open training session (approximately 15-30 minutes)
• Post event review at a Getty Images or Canon location
• A pair of tickets to a RWC 2015 match

How to enter (2 steps) :

Submit your best image showing your 'unique perspective' of Rugby by posting it on social media. We will share a creative theme that will define the judging criteria per submission period.

• Twitter (via your own Twitter profile) including #canonrugbywin
• Instagram (via your own Instagram profile) including #canonrugbywin
• Facebook (by commenting on the relevant Canon UK Facebook post - during the submission period)

Like or follow the relevant Canon UK social media page listed below

• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/CanonUKLtd
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/CanonUKandIE
• Instagram : https://instagram.com/canonuk/

For each of the 8 prizes there will be a 1 week long submission period. Please see the Terms and Conditions for more information

Any images submitted into the competition may appear on the official RWC 2015 image gallery (website and app). By entering this promotion you are confirming and agreeing to the Promotion’s Terms and Conditions.

Canon Powershot G3X Coming Very Soon

Canon Powershot G3X camera

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The Canon PowerShot G3 X camera may be available very soon. The above image and specifications of the camera have appeared.

Canon G3X Camera Specification :

• 20MP 1inch Sensor
• 25x Optical Zoom (equivalent to 24-600mm f/2.8-5.6)
• Minimum focus distance in Macro mode - 5cm (2 inch)
• Partial weather sealed
• Wifi
• NFC
• 1080p Video
• Manual Control
• 3.2 inch  Tilting LCD
• Touchscreen
• 4x Digital Zoom
• Built-in Flash
• SDHC and SDXC Card slot