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Zeiss have just issued a press release at the IFA show in Berlin, saying that:

"In addition to the PL-, EF- and F-mount, Carl Zeiss will soon also be offering the Compact Prime CP.2 lenses with Micro 4/3 and A-mount."

Above - worldwide trends - Philip Bloom and Filmmaking

According to data released by search engine giant Google, filmmaking is declining in popularity and will be overtaken by Philip Bloom in mid 2011.

Philip Bloom is gaining on filmmaking for the world's attention because the British cinematographer sports a trendy hairstyle and enjoys a lot of self promotion! The trend of Bloom now has almost as many Google searches to his name than the industry itself.

Image source: IFA 2010, press pack - Sony's press conference today at the IFA in Berlin
Source: German website Slashcam.de reports via Sony Alpha Rumors

Ichiro Takagi (Deputy President of the Imaging Business Group of Sony) today told a press conference at the IFA show in Berlin that manual video controls will be added, expressing his surprise at the reaction of customers to the lack of manual video controls.

The move follows an online campaign by EOSHD.com coinciding with the launch of the Sony A55 which pointed out the glaring omission from our perspective, of having such limited video controls! Sony followed this up with some damage limitation and then took the criticism on board.

CPN (Canon Professional Network) has released an interview with Tsunemasa Ohara. A brilliant engineer whose team developed the first every digital EOS camera, Ohara is now Senior General Manager for the Canon Photo Products Group. Here are the interesting bits...

Image of Rick McCallum & Canon's 4K concept camera from Philip Bloom

Canon have revealed a prototype / concept camera which shoots 4K video at 60p on a 2/3" sensor.