Category: Digital photography
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Ben WILHELMI
Ben Wilhelmi is a photographer I like a lot. He has a nice web site with galleries of powerful safari photos. All his images seem different, but they share an invariable personal requirement for quality.
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SD14: Sigma tells it all about its new DSLR (like the competition)
Really! The way it goes in marketing departments all over the world, the Photokina in Cologne next month (from September 26th, 2006) will have nothing left to announce. At least, on the segment of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. All the news will be out: Sony launched its Alpha A100 in July, Nikon just…
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New 50-150mm f/2.8 at Sigma
Yet another new lens with a wide aperture: This time it is a zoom, APO 50-150mm F2.8 EX DC HSM. A long variation (from the standard 50mm to a small tele-lens 150mm). Nothing wrong in this zoom incorporating also an HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor) to allow quiet and high-speed auto focusing with full time manual…
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Canon 400D, Digital Rebel Xti, all new
Finally, Canon launched officially the new Digital SLR camera (Canon 400D or Digital Rebel Xti) that is supposed to be the spearhead of the company in this very valuable market. The Internet is glowing with reviews and previews of the new camera ready to oppose the Nikon D80, Sony A100 and Pentax K100D. Here are…
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PD70x: Possibly a problem with dirty contacts
You learned a few days ago that I had some problems with random errors in my Compact Drive PD70x flash card portable hard disk reader. It seems (I’m not 100% sure) that it came from dirty contacts between the hard disk drive and the electronics. I actually cleaned quickly those (thanks to Compact Drive for…
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New Macro 70mm f/2.8 at Sigma
Sigma launches a new lens with a nicely wide aperture: a medium/short tele, Macro 70mm F2.8 EX DG. Certainly a good lens needed to draw some of the macro photo enthusiasts (1:1 ratio) and whose quality should be high enough to keep the flag of the EX line quite high (gold ring at the front…
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Canon new DSLR may be named 400D
According to Engadget, the new Canon Digital SLR camera may have the name of 400D (instead of previously reported 370D) and it may include an ultrasonic sensor cleaning (the new fad these days).
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Canon follows: Rebel Xti, or 370D
After so many news from the competition (Digital SLR cameras from Sony, Nikon, Pentax), Canon could not leave the field open for them. Without waiting for the upcoming Photokina, Canon starts letting some information flow about its newest digital reflex camera (or the Internet news hunters got wind of some bits before the official announcement…
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Some insecurity in the Maasai Mara Park
It seems to be well under Kenyan authorities control but, on 22th of August 2005, vans of a safari photo tourists has been attacked by Kenyan bandits while returning from a safari in the Masai Mara National Park. Two Japanese tourists were lightly wounded; The others (Japanese, Americans and South-Africans) returned directly to the safety…