Category: SLR
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Nikon: Delays on D4, D800
The impact of the earthquake on 11 March in Japan on the Nikon Sendai plant will have significant consequences for the launches of the Nikon D4 and Nikon D800. They were to be launched before Summer to be manufacturer in Sendai. The manufacturing process will not be ready until the production is transferred to Malaysia.…
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ME-1: A microphone for the Nikon D5100
While we are still waiting for the official end of the embargo on the Nikon D5100 press information (in a few hours only), here is the microphone designed to support the Full HD (1080p) video capture of the Nikon D5100. External unidirectional stereo microphone ME-1.
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Discontinued Sony cameras
Messages from all over the world are announcing that Sony is currently discontinuing a number of SLR cameras: Sony Alpha 580 (from Singapore and other) Sony Alpha SLT 33 The most common interpretation of such news is that Sony is preparing a large number of official launches in the coming weeks. Most probably they will…
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The Nikon D5100 is coming
According to NikonRumors, we’ve only got a few hours to wait. Announcement of the Nikon D5100 should be made late on Tuesday Monday 4 or early on Wednesday Tuesday 5 (probably depending on the time zone where you live). The expected/probable features of the Nikon D5100: 16 MP digital sensor from Sony (probably from the…
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Fuji restarts production of X100
Latest news: Fuji confirmed the production of the X100 is now running again. Their intent is to limit the supply delay to only a few weeks.
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Tamron exhibits your photos
There are many ways to present your photos on the Internet. Most portfolios are very similar. This one is slightly different. Thanks to Tamron My Photo Exhibits, you can organize your pictures in what looks a lot like visiting a public exhibition. This may be a little awkward to use. But it gives a different…
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Download the Canon EOS 600D user manual
You may have discovered how difficult Canon makes it to find the electronic editions of their SLR photo cameras operator/user manuals. For a recent photo camera like the Canon EOS 600D, this is somewhat even more difficult, and I decided to specially look around for the YLovePhoto readers. Here are the results of my investigations,…
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Amazing eBay prices on Fuji Finepix X100
We already know that Fuji has announced some delays on the shipment of its all new Finepix X100, but the buyers are not always perfectly logical. It’s enough to check the prices reached on eBay: This is people ready to place an auction at more than $1600 (some have reached more than $2000) for a…
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D5000 is dead! Long live the Nikon D5100!
This is a bit early to claim that the D5100 from Nikon will soon be here, but it is clear that the repeated message from Nikon is really unambiguous: Stocks of Nikon D5000 are dwindling all over the world and Nikon has obviously no intent to start a new manufacturing batch. The Nikon D5100 will…