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Tamron lenses : 5 years warranty in Europe

Mar 29, 2013 No Comments by

This is what is called being self assured ! Tamron, the independent Japanese SLR lenses manufacturer and rival of Sigma, announced the expansion of the guarantee of its lenses to 5 years duration record that will allow photographers who have not yet done so to try the brand without taking any risk with regards the hardware [...]

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Canon EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 main technical specifications

Mar 28, 2013 No Comments by

Announced last month with the EOS 700D / Rebel T5i, the supercompact tiny little DSLR in Canon’s range, the EOS 100D  Rebel SL1,  is coming to th emarket these days. Here are the camera’s technical specs summed up. Is this camera for you ? Let us all know on our Facebook page.   Canon EOS [...]

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DxO Optics Pro V8.1.4 supports the Panasonic GH3

Mar 25, 2013 No Comments by

DxO Optics Pro V8 evolves today as it is now on a monthly basis that the folks in Paris Dxo Labs headquarter have decided to feed their users with a continuous stream of new releases. Today, DxO is available in version 8.1.4 which adds the support of a few new cameras including the latest Nikon [...]

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Canon EOS 100D / SL1 and EOS 700D / Rebel T5i unveiled

Mar 21, 2013 No Comments by

Canon today unveiled five new cameras starting with two important new digital SLRs with the Canon EOS 100D / SL1 which is simply the smallest APS-C DSLR ever designed, the Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i which takes over the EOS 650D / T4i  improving its technical characteristics via a faster fps in burst mode, [...]

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A wedding entirely captured with a Fuji X100S

Mar 20, 2013 1 Comment by

For the experiment, American wedding photographer Brian Kraft has covered a weeding as the backup of photographer Mark Alison who was the official photographer for the day which enabled him to attempt the adventure of covering the wedding with only the Fuji X100S, a camera with a 35mm wide-angle lens he liked in order to [...]

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Wacom Cintiq 13hd tablet

Mar 20, 2013 No Comments by

Here is a new Wacom Cintiq 13″ pen tablet that offers both a Full HD resolution screen and a touch screen with a new stylus. Among graphic tablets, the Cintiq screen overlay line represents the high end of the Wacom offer. Today it is the small size which is redesigned and gains in screen size as [...]

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A Nikon image sensor in the next Google smartphone Nexus 5

Mar 20, 2013 No Comments by

Google up big on the photo quality of its next smartphone. While speculations is rife about the next Google smartphone, the Nexus 5, I spotted today on PhoneArena that its image sensor could be a sensor under Nikon brand … Phonearena.com undermines recent speculations that the Google Nexus 5 would come out with a new [...]

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Minox Digital Classic Camera 14.0 vintage tiny little spy camera

Mar 20, 2013 No Comments by

Minox has made ​​a specialty of digital cameras with both a miniature size and a retro look to perfection. Today Minox launches a new Digital Classic Camera with a new 14 megapixel sensor. This small compact which really reminds me of a 50′s spy camera only weights 113 grams and will be available at $239 [...]

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Sony RX100 review

Mar 18, 2013 Comments Off by

It’s rare in photography that image quality doesn’t suffer the more compact the camera becomes. The two just don’t work well together. It’s a purely physical thing. It’s this very enigma that camera makers have set out to resolve in recent years. They’ve succeeded so far in offering a largely improved quality of image in [...]

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Luxi : turn your iPhone into an incident light meter

Mar 12, 2013 No Comments by

Luxi is a small accessory that attaches to the iPhone and is made of a simple yet very smart translucent diffusion dome that turns your iPhone into an incident light meter to adjust your camera’s exposure settings. The iPhone is definitely an insanely motivating incubator for accessories of all kinds. Take Luxi eg, it can [...]

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Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR â…¡ lens review

Mar 11, 2013 Comments Off by

The Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR â…¡ is a telephoto lens with an FX mount. That is to say that it is compatible with both Full Frame (Nikon D4, D800, D600) and APS-C DSLRs (Nikon D3200, D5200, D7000 replaced now by the Nikon D7100). It is of course  a more “powerful” lens on [...]

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Fotodiox adapter RhinoCam : turns your Sony NEX camera into a medium format 645 digital back

Mar 11, 2013 No Comments by

Fotodiox launches a new Sony E mount adapter intended for Sony NEX mirrorless cameras. The RhinoCam allows you to photograph a landscape in high definition: up to 140 megapixels. How is it? It moves your camera and take multiple exposures to end up with a medium format like digital back image for a fraction of [...]

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Full Frame video sensor engineered by Canon may record as low as 0.03 lux

Mar 11, 2013 No Comments by

Canon has announced they have developed a new CMOS image sensor, a Full Frame 35mm one, exclusively designed for video recording and that would reach heights of sensitibity with an noise-free Full HD video quality. This sensor should quickly find astrophotography and scientific applications prior to the day it could be embedded on a crazy [...]

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Canon CanoScan 9000F MARK II : up to 9600 dpi for film

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

Canon updates its CCD scanner with the announcement of the CanonScan 9000 Mark II, a versatile scanner that can scan documents as well as analog films or pictures, in a resolution that can reach 9600 dpi. It comes with a comprehensive software suite including a document management application, a handwriting recognition software (OCR) and interface [...]

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Photosynth now available for Windows Phone 8 smartphones

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

Microsoft has finally finalized its adaptation of its mobile panorama app Photosynth for Windows Phone 8. It took Redmond programmers 4 months to get Photosynth ready for WP8… I tested Photosynth when it was released in Spring 2011. Photosytnth was a mobile application available for the iPhone only under iOS back then and it can [...]

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Nikon AF-S 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR : better, tougher, heavier

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

Alongside the announcement of these interesting large sensor compact cameras Coolpix P330 and Coolpix A, Nikon unveils a new version of its highly anticipated 80-400mm telephoto lens, which was the first to benefit from Nikon VR optical image stabilization. It comes back quite refresh with a more ambitious optical built, added weight and larger dimensions [...]

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Nikon Coolpix P330 : 24-120mm lens – 1/1.7 BSI sensor – GPS

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

The Nikon Coolpix P330 receives the latest Backside Illuminated CMOS sensor of 12 megapixels in 1/1.7 “. Its sensibility ranges from ISO 200 to 3,200 and is expandable up to ISO 12,800. The sensor’s signal is processed by the EXPEED C2 processor which allows the P330 to reach burst shooting mode rate of 10 fps. [...]

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Nikon Coolpix A : large sensor (APS-C), yet very compact

Mar 05, 2013 Comments Off by

The least one can say is that this camera was highly anticipated. After the successful Fujifilm X100 and other large sensor digital compact cameras like the Leica X1 / X2, or the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1, I was expecting anxiously that Nikon would unveil its vision of a premium marge sensor compact camera. And it is [...]

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Phase One IQ2 digital backs and IQ260 achromatic for black and white photography

Mar 04, 2013 Comments Off by

Danish manufacturer of medium format digital backs Phase One unveiled its the new generation of camera back : Phase One IQ2. For this new range of medium format full-frame 645 backs, Phase One focuses not only on the definition of its huge sensors, but also on the high-speed wireless connectivity, and generous dynamic range their [...]

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Socialmatic Instagram camera will come true in 2014 Q1

Mar 04, 2013 Comments Off by

Since its introduction by the ADR studio a few months ago, some barely can wait to get their hands on this camera of a new kind, the Instagram / Polaroid SocialMatic camera. This camera which would incorporate the application icon photo sharing service Instagram is a camera with communications capabilities that would allow to immediately [...]

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