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Telescopic Zoom Lenses for Cell Phones

By Christina Crouch on Tuesday, Jan 15th 2008 No Comments

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.

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

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Dec 4th 2007 No Comments

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

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

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Dec 3rd 2007 4 Comments

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.

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

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Dec 3rd 2007 No Comments

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.

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