Posted on 16th March 2009 by admin in camera
olympus
It took 9 months of gestation extra compared to Olympus Panasonic to present its first compact hybrid. This is done today with the formalization of Pen Digital Pen E-P1, first to Mount Olympus micro 4:3.
Compact, Hybrid, with retro look: the Olympus Digital Pen
There are so retro metallic look of the model of micro 4:3 Olympus we had shown at Photokina. A 13 megapixel sensor as 4:3 Team Digital Pen E-P1 to a final resolution of 12 megapixels. We will use if the sensor has made progress in high sensitivity compared to traditional 12-megapixel SLR used by Olympus and Panaosnic on the G1 and GH1. Do not deny our pleasure to see this finally formalized Olympus compact, and with an integrated image stabilization in the housing by translation of the sensor as the Olympus SLR.
Retro look and interchangeable lenses go well together on the Pen E-P1
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Posted on 10th January 2009 by admin in camera
CalTech, canon, olympus, Panasonic, samsung, sony
Sony settles patent suit over digital cameras With CalTech
Sony Corp. settled a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by the California Institute of Technology over digital cameras.
Terms weren’t disclosed in a federal court filing in the case. “CalTech hereby informs the court that it has resolved its dispute with Sony Electronics and Tokyo-based Sony Corp.,” the school said in a June 23 filing in Los Angeles.
CalTech sued six digital-camera companies, including Canon Inc. and Nikon Corp., seeking royalties on 11 patents related to digital-camera technology. Some of the inventions relate to pixel sensors that improve electronically transmitted images and came from research CalTech did for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, according to information on the patents.
In separate June 23 filings, Nikon and Panasonic Corp. denied CalTech’s infringement claims, said the patents are invalid and accused the school and inventors of misleading the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to obtain the patents. Canon, Olympus Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. haven’t yet responded to the complaints, according to the court docket.
Michael Shore, a lawyer for CalTech with Shore Chan Bragalone in Dallas, said the university reached basic settlement terms with another party in the case and court papers may be filed in two to three weeks.
