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Pre-PhotoKina teaser : Zeiss new ZE mount SLR lens for Canon?

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Sep 8th 2008 No Comments

Canon kicked off the pre-Photokina’s teaser with an indication of 5D replacement last week. Zeiss starts the week off with a hint of new ZE mount SLR lenses to be revealed on the 15th, next week. If the new ZE mount stands for EOS or EF mount for Canon lens, then this is the first and fully EF complaint mount in Zeiss lenses.

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Make no mistake, it wouldn’t be the consumer-grade Zeiss lens as featured in Sony’s Mount(ZA-mount) lenses or your P&S digital cameras. The Pro, enthusiast or pixel-peeper looks for exception corner to corner sharpness ultra wide angle lens could finally say goodbye to EF adapter.

Laser Light Finger Beams make for cool shutter lag photos

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Sep 8th 2008 1 Comment

I’m well aware that having light shoot out of your fingertips is pretty much useless, but it’s cool, nevertheless. That’s why when I set eyes on these Laser Finger Beams, they immediately went on my wish list.

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Canon Launches 5D Replacement Campaign : Destined Evolution

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Sep 5th 2008 1 Comment

Canon 5d campaign It is an exciting time of the year for photographers; Photokina is just around the corner. Many are waiting on Canon to unleash the long overdue 5D replacement. Rumors and speculations have been flooding the internet forum and guess what Canon did? They launched a teaser campaign, more mysterious and a small peek to the 5D successor Worldwide. At US site and China site, it’s a silhouette of a camera with the words Destined Evolution. At UK and many Europe sites , it’s a quick and dirty flash presentation of the following words in sequence.

THE EOS STORY CONTINUES…
SEE THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY…
STAY TUNE…

Canon Selphy ES3 & ES30 portable digital photo printers

By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Aug 26th 2008 No Comments

Canon has announced two new portable digital photo printers in their Selphy range, the ES3 and the cheaper ES30. Each has a built-in 15-in-1 memory card reader, are PictBridge compatible, use integrated ink & paper cartridges and have an LCD preview screen: 3.5-inches with wide-angle viewing on the ES3, 3-inches on the ES30. The ES3 also gains 1GB of onboard storage, to allow regularly accessed images to be kept on the printer itself.

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Kodak orders OLED panels for digital photo frames

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Aug 22nd 2008 No Comments

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Kodak has opted to use Chi Mei EL (CMEL) OLED displays in their digital photo frames. In fact, the 7.6-inch OLED displays, made by CMEL, which is owned by the standard LCD maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics, will begin to enter production in September.

This should provide plenty of time for the completed displays to be delivered to Kodak and to prep for the much anticipated holiday season. And even though digital photo frames run the gamut of price ranges, these OLED offerings are thought to be quite pricey.

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Sellgino GS-200 ‘GPS Photo Tour’ standalone geotagger

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 27th 2008 No Comments

As image support on mapping apps becomes more common, photo GPS geotagging is becoming more popular. However the number of cameras supporting the functionality out-of-the-box is still small, and that assumes you’re in the market to upgrade anyway. Sellgino Telecom have an alternative, however; their GS-200 ‘GPS Photo Tour’ is a standalone GPS receiver and logger, that comes with software that will analyze your images and match them up with location data.

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Eye-Fi announce 3 new WiFi SD cards: hotspots and geotagging

By Chris Davies on Monday, May 12th 2008 No Comments

Eye Fi Eye-Fi have announced an update to their range of WiFi-equipped SD memory cards. Now split into three models – Explore, Share and Home – various degrees of hotspot and geotagging are on offer. The top-end Explore sees Eye-Fi partner with hotspot company Wayport, allowing for automatic photo uploads in around 10,000 US hotspots. It also supports Skyhook’s pseudo-GPS WiFi triangulation system to give each image location data.

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Samsung NV 24HD digital camera – packed full of everything you’d expect from a high end camera

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

For starters, it has HD video capabilities as well as a 10.2MP image sensor. All that is recorded through a 24mm wide Schneider lens with a 3.6x optical zoom, so far this camera seems pretty mediocre, but I assure you its not.

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Canon drops three new ELPHs – for all your compact awesomeness needs

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 13th 2008 3 Comments

They are as follows: the SD890, SD790, and SD770. All of those model names also have Canon, PowerShot, IS, Digital, and ELPH all thrown into each of them somewhere as well, there’s more than that which they all have in common as well.

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Gitzo Series 3 off center Ball Heads for finest photography support

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Feb 26th 2008 No Comments

Gitzo has been some of the best Europe photography equipment makers. Originated from French, now owned by Italian-made Manfrotto, but both are presently in the hands of a British international media Group. So how would you like to have Europe finest photography equipment with colorful history from a British, French and an Italian?

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