Sigma has announced that it will offer a paid service to current fp camera owners who want to replace the dials with the newer ones on the recently announced fp L. The "button replacement service" will cost about $150 and is not included in the camera's warranty.
If you think the $799 iPhone 8 Plus' photo quality is impressive, get this: the camera modules are estimated to cost just $32.50 in materials.
The iPhone has become one of the most popular cameras in the world, but the actual components that go into the iPhone's camera don't cost very much materials-wise. Apple is estimated to spend about $26 on the iPhone 7's camera module, representing just 9.5% the bill of materials for the entire phone.
Here's a random tip: if your $1,000 camera ever gets run over by a truck, don't just throw the crushed parts in the trash. sonyalpharumors reports that one unlucky owner of a flattened Sony a7 mirrorless camera still managed to sell the parts and the original box on eBay for $20 with an extra $18.65 for shipping.
Olympus is slated to begin developing and supplying Sony with lens parts and lens units in the near future as part of what has been called a "mutual parts supply". The news comes months following a formed alliance between the two companies in September 2012.
"The imaging sensor has already started to source from Sony to Olympus. And the lens [parts] and lens units will start to source from Olympus to Sony," said an Olympus Japan spokesperson in a recent statement.
Want to see how old film single-lens reflex cameras were put together? Clare (Wyoh on Tumblr) recently found a number of camera schematics inside an old French magazine from decades ago. The schematics show exploded views of the Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikon FM, and Nikon FA SLRs. Each camera is shown in its most basic parts, which are numbered and labeled (in French).
In mid-January, Nikon sent an letter out to independent camera repair technicians across the US, informing them that “it …
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So this is what the new Fujifilm Finepix X100 camera looks like when it's completely disassembled...