On August 23, 2007, Nikon introduced two new DSLRs to the market: the full frame D3, and the D300, an upgrade to the D200. I’m late with this bit of news — I meant to publish the post sooner, but I was out of the country and I had less access to the internet that [...]
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Canon chose to announce the availability of a new wide-angle lens along with the EOS-1Ds Mark III. It’s the new EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM prime, which upgrades the existing EF 14mm f/2.8L USM.
The lens will feature the same correction for rectilinear distortion, but with improved dust and water resistance, a round aperture for nice [...]
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On the same day that it released information about the upcoming EOS 40D DSLR, Canon dropped a bombshell. The much-expected 1Ds Mark III is ready, and will begin shipping in November. We all knew it was coming, but what we didn’t expect was the medium format-like resolution: a whopping 21.1 megapixels!
Here are the specs where [...]
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On August 20, just three days ago, Canon announced the new EOS 40D DSLR, the successor to the very good EOS 30D camera. The camera will begin selling in September, and Amazon has already started taking pre-orders. After reviewing the specs and photos, I am impressed. Canon has made the 40D better than the 30D [...]
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If you think you’ve got it pretty good with Photoshop and Genuine Fractals when it comes to image resizing, think again. Here comes a new technology, developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir, called Content-Aware Image Sizing, that will literally blow away our current concepts of image sizing and cropping. Yeah, it’s that good! I don’t often [...]
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I’m going to talk about the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Zoom Lens in this review. It’s a wonderfully versatile L series zoom with surprising image quality and great image stabilization built right in. I’m also [...]
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Olympus has been working on their new flagship DSLR, the “new E-1″, for some time, and word is that it’s going to be launched later this year, possibly in November, or sooner. I’ve seen some concept photos of the new E-1 body, and it looks pretty sweet. They’re not the final version of the camera, [...]
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Given my concern with image theft, I do not like to hear about Flickr or Zooomr hacks. A while back, a Flickr hack circulated around that allowed people to view an image’s full size even if the photographer didn’t allow it (provided the image was uploaded at high resolution.) The hack was based on Flickr’s [...]
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