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Hi-Can is a Hi-Fi Canopy

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2008 No Comments

In fact that’s what its name is short for, so you are wondering, how can a canopy bed be high fidelity? Well, its simple, there is a projector, sound system, and projection screen that you can’t readily see, all built in.

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Xacti DMX-HD1000 reviewed

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2008 No Comments

Akihabra News has a review up of the newest Xacti, overall they seem to like it for what it is, a digital camcorder, and an HD one at that. They say the video quality has received a big boost.

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DSLR Movie Mode patent allows video capture on your high end camera

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Feb 18th 2008 No Comments

Mr. Terada is apparently a genius, and of all the things he likely could have done with his mind, he chose to bring us all video capture capabilities on our DSLR cameras. In case you don’t know, DSLR’s are the high end digital cameras that everyone and their brother is carrying around these days, other than the fact that they have changeable lenses, most people that have them after this past Christmas season probably have no clue why they have them.

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Sigzilla gets a price update

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Feb 1st 2008 No Comments

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The gigantic Sigzllla that we mentioned earlier got the price updated from impress this morning. As we’ve mentioned, the size and weight are not beyond impossible but it’s unrealistic for field works, not to mention the huge price tag of $25,000 (2,625,000 yen). Sigma might want to scratch off their press release listing portraits and wildlife as targeted field of photography suitable for this lens. But i have to admit, that Sig~~maGod~~zilla is one sexy beast, wildlife or not, chicks will not have problems posing with or without ~~feather~~ cloths on.

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Sunex SuperFisheye does full circular capture for crop-factor DSLR

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Feb 1st 2008 No Comments

I don’t have much experience with fisheye glass, the only few I ever got were with Canon EF 15mm F2.8 fisheye down at the Dallas city rookery. Granted, a 15mm is too wide for birdies but definitely not enough for panorama freaks with crop-factor DSLR. If 5.6mm is wide enough for you, Sunex just launched a SuperFisheye at PMA 2008.

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Sigma Unveils Three Zoom Lenses featuring OS and HSM

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Jan 31st 2008 1 Comment

If you’ve been unsatisfied with Sigma’s development in Optical Stabilizer lenses, here’s some good news for you. They’ve drop three new zoom lens at PMA 2008, with OS ability of 4 stops of light equivalent. Better yet, the trio feature Hyper Sonic Motor for smooth, quite and fast auto-focusing.

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The Sigzilla is back with new paint job

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Jan 31st 2008 No Comments

The Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 EX DG lens was first introduced at last PMA show, the giant barrel and overall physical size draw attention to photography community, not to mention the world’s first F2.8 aperture at 500mm.

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Pentax Unveils Five DA Lenses

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Jan 24th 2008 No Comments

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!

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Canon has some new mammoth lenses

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Jan 24th 2008 No Comments

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.

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

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Jan 22nd 2008 No Comments

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.

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