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Nikon interview: CIPA tests hide the D4’s improved battery life

Nikon's Toshiaki Akagi. Copyright © 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.In our time with Nikon's Toshiaki Akagi at CES 2012, we found our wide range of questions would be limited to the Nikon D4, so we turned it into another question and answer session while we had access to the General Manager of Design, using many questions from Twitter and a few left over from our Live Q&A earlier in the week. Also included in the meeting were Kenji Suzuki, who...

Sigma interview: NEX and Micro Four Thirds are major focus

Sigma's Kazuto Yamaki. Copyright © 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.For our second-last interview from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells and senior editor Shawn Barnett met with Kazuto Yamaki, Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Corp.

All of Sigma's products are produced at the company's own factory in Aizu, Japan, and so we were pleased to hear Yamaki-san's report that impact to the company from last...

Sony interview: Ten years from now, will mirror-based cameras be a distant memory?

Sony's Mark Weir. Copyright © 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.Nearing the end of our CES interview lineup, Sony's Mark Weir (Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing) shares his take on the state of technology and the camera market. In the future, will any cameras have mirrors? Where's Sony going with the NEX lens roadmap? What are Sony's plans for full-frame SLRs? Read the transcript carefully; you'll find some intriguing hints in Mark's...

Panasonic interview: Learning from the fringe, taking small steps

Panasonic's Darin Pepple. Copyright © 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.Continuing a hectic schedule of interviews at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells sat down with Darin Pepple, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Imaging at Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co.

Along with partner Olympus, Panasonic really got the ball rolling for the...

Samsung interview: How do cameras fit in a connected world?

Samsung's Jay Kelbley. Image copyright© 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.At the Consumer Electronics Show, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells met up with Jay Kelbley, Senior Marketing Manager (NX SLRs) at Samsung Electronics, continuing our interview series.

With camera phones rapidly encroaching on the lower end of the camera market, manufacturers are looking for areas in which...

Fujifilm interview: Phase detect AF definitely coming to X line

Fujifilm's Kayce Baker. Image copyright© 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.Continuing our series of in-depth interviews from this year's combined CES / PMA tradeshow, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells were joined by Kayce M. Baker, Director of Marketing in the Electronic Imaging Division of Fujifilm North America Corp.

Clearly, the big news was Fujifilm's brand-new X-Pro1 compact...

Pentax interview: We’re open to working with third-party developers

Pentax's John Carlson. Image copyright© 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.Next up in our 2012 Consumer Electronics Show interview program, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells sat down with John Carlson, Senior Manager of Sales and Marketing at Pentax Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp..

The interview covers some of the challenges faced over the last year by the photo industry, and the changes seen at Pentax since its recent acquisition by Ricoh. Also...

Olympus interview: Cautious Americans finally coming around to mirrorless?

Olympus' Toshiyuki Terada. Image copyright© 2012, Imaging Resource. All rights reserved.Launching our interview program for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, senior editor Shawn Barnett, and features editor Arthur Etchells were joined by Toshiyuki Terada, Manager and Group Leader of the Product and Marketing Planning Group, Product and Marketing Planning Department at Olympus Imaging Corp., and Sally Smith Clemens, Product...

Panasonic GX1 Q&A: Your questions, answered

Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GX1 compact system camera. Click here to read our Panasonic GX1 Q&A.Earlier today, we hosted a question and answer session to discuss the forthcoming Panasonic GX1 compact system camera, a model which we've put through its paces over the last couple of weeks. Although the Q&A's over now, it remains archived as part of our Panasonic GX1 hands-on preview, and is well worth a read if you couldn't make the live session.

To those of you who...

IR hosts live Q&A on Panasonic GX1, delivers camera answers to enthusiast hordes

Panasonic returns to its GF roots with the forthcoming GX1. We've put it through its paces over the last two weeks and generally came away impressed. Curious to learn more? Burning questions left unanswered on internet forums? Then join our Live Q&A on December the 12th at noon EST.

Canon Interview: Laurence J. Thorpe on the new Canon Cinema EOS digital movie cameras

Canon Interview - Laurence J. Thorpe, Senior Director Professional Engineering and Solutions, Imaging Technologies and Communications Group

ZcinemaeoslogoWe sat down with Larry Thorpe of Canon at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Callifornia, where Canon announced their new Cinema EOS C300 and C300PL digital cameras. The new cameras are aimed at giving dedicated movie makers a small and...

Imaging Resource interview digest: Laurence J. Thorpe, Canon

Canon-2011-200x42Canon's Cinema EOS C300 and C300 PL digital cinema cameras take the EOS camera series in an entirely new direction. We had the opportunity to interview Larry Thorpe, to get the inside story on these interesting cameras, and how they fit into the company's future plans.

While attending tonight's launch event for the new cameras--held on the glamorous Hollywood movie lot of...

Imaging Resource Interview: Katsuichi Shimizu and Michael Duffett, Canon

Canon-shimizuAlongside the PDN PhotoPlus International Conference and Expo in New York last week, Canon introduced its new PIXMA PRO-1 professional inkjet printer--which we've just reviewed--at a press event in Skylight West, an impressive event venue just a few blocks away from the show floor.

Prior to the event, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells sat down with Katsuichi Shimizu, who...