Tag: lens
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Sigma lenses: not for the Sony Alpha SLT
Sigma issued a press release to inform users that their Minolta-Sony-compatible lenses may have issues in handling the aperture when used on the newest Sony Alpha SLT (Semi-Transparent Mirror) Alpha 33 and Alpha 55. Be warned.
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Tamron 60-lens giveaway
To celebrate their 60th anniversary, Tamron is giving away 60 (sixty!) Tamron SP 70-300mm Di VC USD zoom lenses, one each day from September 1st. Register at http://www.tamron-usa.com.
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Olympus m4/3 roadmap
After a few recent announcements, Olympus just disclosed its roadmap of the micro 4/3 format. It becomes quite clear that Olympus is concentrating a lot of efforts on this format, and that the perspective becomes more readable. Nota bene: At the same time, Olympus UK reduces the price of an E-PL1 kit with the M.Zuiko…
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Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4
Faithful to its age-old fame, Carl Zeiss shows us a new wide-angle lens aiming at the high-end of the market, at least because of the “widigantic” aperture of f/1.4. Available in Canon and Nikon mounts at 1385€, from the first quarter of 2011.
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Olympus is long in 4/3
At Olympus, the pressure is on micro 4/3 in this second half of 2010. Here come two tele-zooms and some photo cameras. There was a dire need of a respectable tele-zoom in the Olympus lens range. This is now corrected with nothing less than a 75-300 mm f/4,8-6,7 (equivalent to a 150-600mm). If this was…
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Sony: A toast to absent friends!
When they presented the new Sony Alpha 560 and Sony Alpha 580, yesterday, Sony published a family photo for the two Alpha and NEX ranges. Nobody is missing. But two products are obviously absent: The Sony Alpha 700 has been removed completely from the photo. There no longer is any 500mm f/8 mirror tele-lens (which…
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Sony E18-200mm f3.5-6.3 OSS, available
Sony just announced that this lens awaited as a key item in the Sony NEX range will be available from September 10th, 2010 at the steep price of 99,750 yens, or about 920 euros. Optical stabilization, focal range equivalent to 27-300mm, aluminium alloy finish; This should be a nice object.
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New Nikon lenses
Nikon did not stop at announcing the Nikon D3100 as a new beautiful entry-level digital SLR. Here are four new lenses: AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4G (estimated selling price of $1699.95) AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR (estimated selling price of $1049.95) AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR (estimated selling price of $1299.95) AF-S DX NIKKOR…
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A simple variable Neutral Density filter
A long post from Instructables (Simple Variable Neutral Density Filter) invites us to build easily a Neutral Density (ND) filter whose density can be adjusted (using only two polarizing filters). The simple and neat idea is to flip back one of the filters in front of the other. Correctly aligned, they become nearly totally black…