Sigma is a manufacturer of lenses for a variety of cameras that are on the market today. In late January, Sigma unveiled several new lenses in the company's Art line. When the company announced those new lenses in January, it didn't offer pricing or availability details. Those details are now available.
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Sigma announces pricing and availability for new Art lenses
Google Picasa albums now redirect to Google+
Google's Picasa photo sharing service has been a great platform for uploading photos and sharing them, but it looks like Google will be giving it the ax soon, as URLs of Picasa albums are now being redirected to Google+ URLs. This isn't too surprising, since Google introduced some great photo features with their social network, but it's sad to see Picasa slowly faded out.
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Nikon COOLPIX A brings DX-format sensor to a surprisingly tiny body
The newest pocketable beast with a hearty ability to break out extremely high-quality photos comes from Nikon with the COOLPIX A. Inside this camera you'll find a 16.2-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor with the ability to snap photos with image quality the company says were only previously possible with a Nikon D-SLR. This bump allows this model to become - quite easily - the new champion in the segment - the new flagship COOLPIX camera without a doubt.
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LG Optimus G Pro Photo Tour: Barcelona, MWC 2013
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Photosynth panoramic app arrives on Windows Phone 8
Microsoft's ever-popular panoramic app Photosynth has arrived on the company's own Windows Phone 8 platform. The app had previously only been available for iOS devices (as well as WP7), but after being absent from Microsoft's new mobile platform for several months after its release, Windows Phone 8 users can now capture Street View-esque panoramic images with their new Windows Phone devices.
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500px app comes to Chrome
500px had a bit of controversy back in January when the iOS app was temporarily pulled from the iTunes App Store due to nude photo searches. As of today however, 500px has returned with a bit of good news for Chrome users -- a 500px app is now available for Chrome. This app release is for the Chrome browser running on Mac and Windows as well as Chrome OS computers including the new Chromebook Pixel.
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olloclip adapter for iPod Touch now available
olloclip has announced a nifty adapter for the 5th-generation and 4th-generation iPod Touch that allows the olloclip lens system to be attached to the portable media player. Currently, olloclip is only available for the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4/4S, but with an adapter, the iPhone 5 version can work with the 5th-gen iPod Touch, and the iPhone 4/4S version can work with the 4th-gen iPod Touch.
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Instagram surpasses 100 million monthly users
The popular photo-sharing service Instagram has announced that they have reached 100 million monthly active users after just two-and-a-half years of being available to photography nerds around the world. Despite the recent privacy policy debacle, it seems a lot of users are over that now, and are ready to get back to creating timeless imagery.
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46-megapixel Sigma DP3 Merrill Compact Camera to launch in March
Camera manufacturer Sigma has announced that it will be launching a new compact digital camera in March called the DP3 Merrill Compact digital camera. The street price for the camera will be $999 and it will have a very impressive resolution of 46-megapixels. The camera uses a 50 mm f2.8 lens is equivalent to 75 mm on a 35mm SLR camera.
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Flickr updates iPhone app with friend mentions and more
Flickr has released an update for its iPhone app, bringing with it a handful of new features and some improvements that make the service altogether more fun to use. After updating, users will find that they can now mention friends directly from the app rather than having to use the desktop, in addition to some other improvements. User can grab it now from the App Store.
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Nikon D7100 overshadowed by fabulous WR-1 Transceiver
This week the Nikon D7100 APS-C camera has been revealed with a fabulous new 24.1-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor as well as a beastly EXPEED 3 image processing engine. But it may be the WR-1 Transceiver that gains our attention the most here in the current season - this little monster gives your camera some rather excellent wireless control - and range therein. And they're not going to break the bank doing so!
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SlashGear 101: HTC UltraPixel Camera Technology
This week we’re seeing HTC come into the light with a massively important new device by the name of HTC One, and with it, a new collection of features included under the “HTC UltraPixel Camera” umbrella. With the features we’re working with here on the HTC One hero phone’s implementation of HTC UltraPixel Camera, you’ll find that image quality is, first and foremost, not solely dependent on the amount of megapixels a camera has. HTC UltraPixel Camera technology is here demonstrated with an UltraPixel Sensor, HTC ImageChip, f/2.0 Aperture, and Optical Image Stabilization.
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