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Pentax Unveils Five DA Lenses

, Jan 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Competing in the cutthroat Digital SLR market if you don’t have lens selection with the size of Amazon’s tropical forest like Nikon or Canon. Having the state of art body isn’t going to sell unless you have full line-up of lens from amateur to professional market. Pentax brought us their newly K20D body yesterday together with 5 new smc PENTAX-DA Lens ranges from a prime Tele to wide angle, I say that’s quite an announcement from them! Read The Full Story

Canon has some new mammoth lenses

, Jan 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

The first, and apparently the largest is the 800 millimeter lens with a f-stop of 5.6. Its not coming until May, but when it does, it will cost more than some new cars. Read The Full Story

Olympus SP-570 UZ gives 10 megapixels and a 20x optical zoom

, Jan 22nd 2008 Discuss [0]

I wonder at what point do point and shoots stop and DSLR’s start? The only reason I ask is because this and a few other cameras seem to be pushing those boundaries and causing for some serious overlap. Read The Full Story

Telescopic Zoom Lenses for Cell Phones

, Jan 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

Unless you’re a member of the paparazzi I can’t imagine why you’d even want to have a telescopic zoom lens for your cell phone. Cell phones aren’t meant to capture phenomenal pictures for your scrapbook, at least in my opinion. Read The Full Story

Tamron AF18-250mm is now AF-motor-driven : Wish granted for Nikon D40 users

, Dec 4th 2007 Discuss [0]

Choices of lens haven’t been easy for D40/D40s crowds, the body doesn’t has mechanical focus drive motor built-in, it’s depended on internal focus motor on the lens to drive the AF module. The selection is limited to AF-S and AF-I or Sigma HSM choice of lens line-up. Tamron has announced to add the drive motor inside one of their popular line of superzoom lens, 18-250mm. The all around AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro got a sweet upgrade with a lens-driven focusing module today. It’s designed exclusively for DSLR with APS-C sided images sensor. It will go on sale in Japan on December 13th and the price is to be announced soon. Tamron announces the launch of the popular AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II with built-in motor for Nikon (Model A18N II) [via dpreview]

Camera Armor is like a protective case for your DSLR

, Dec 3rd 2007 Discuss [4]

So if you have a DSLR, chances are you spent roughly all your spare change from at least 1 month on it, so replacing it is more or less out of the question. Up until now, the best thing you could do is keep it in the case when you weren’t using it, but now you can protect it while in use too. Read The Full Story

New lenses from Sigma, 50-150mm and 70-200mm

, Dec 3rd 2007 Discuss [0]

Sigma announces two new updates to their existing line of zoom lenses, the APO 70-200mm F2.8 II EX DG MACRO HSM and APO 50-150mm F2.8 II EX DC HSM. The 35mm Full Frame 70-200mm II version added one more ELD glass elements to improve chromatic aberrations, make it 3 compare to last model. The size, weight, aperture blades, MFD and magnification has no significant changes compare the last model. It is also compatible with Sigma 1.4x EX DG and 2x EX DG APO Tele-Converters. Price and availability are to be announced but expected to be around MSRP of $1200, $850 street price like last model. Read The Full Story
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