Category: Equipment

  • A first look at the Canon EOS-1D Mark III

    A first look at the Canon EOS-1D Mark III

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    Digital camera guru Rob Galbraith offers up his thoughts after testing a pre-production model of Canon’s new high-end camera. A little quote: The camera’s features may be difficult to sum up, but the camera’s performance isn’t. It’s awesome. Pixel-for-pixel, the image quality is the best we’ve seen from a digital SLR, and except for one…

  • Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III

    Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III

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    RobGalbraith: Canon has taken the wraps off their next 1-series digital SLR. The EOS-1D Mark III is a 10.08 million image pixel, 10 fps digital SLR that offers so many improvements over the model it replaces that it’s best to describe it as a new-from-the-ground-up camera. Here.

  • Breaking the Myth of Megapixels

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    NYT: It goes like this: “The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures.” It’s a big fat lie. The camera companies and camera stores all know it, but they continue to exploit our misunderstanding. Advertisements declare a camera’s megapixel rating as though it’s a letter grade, implying that a 7-megapixel model is necessarily…

  • Design Classic: Canon T90 SLR

    Design Classic: Canon T90 SLR

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    My first real camera, Adam Richardson: There are few products that have had as profound an effect on their category as the T90 had on the modern SLR, not the least of which is the interface paradigm that it introduced and which is copied almost verbatim on every SLR (and many point and shoots) on…

  • A Digital Camera That Accepts Your Treasured Leica Lenses

    A Digital Camera That Accepts Your Treasured Leica Lenses

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    NYT: Photo buffs know a few things for certain: it’s best to shoot with the sun behind you, red-eye can be avoided with the right flash, and Leica makes some of the most sought-after cameras. Its latest, the Leica M8, is a 10-megapixel digital camera built on Leica’s M system of lenses. Here.

  • The World's Largest Telephoto Lens

    The World's Largest Telephoto Lens

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    Zeiss: Never before has the world of photography seen such a lens. Developed for long distance wildlife photography this supertele lens provides 21x magnification. In search of the highest imaginable image quality the client decided for 6×6 medium format and the Hasselblad 203 FE as the best camera he is aware of. At 1700 mm…

  • Big Red One

    Big Red One

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    From Engadget: Announced today at NAB: Red One, an HD camcorder that boasts 11.4 megapixels at up to 60fps. Here.

  • iTalkPro microphone for iPods

    iTalkPro microphone for iPods

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    From iLounge: the glossy black iTalkPro now boasts twin internal microphones for recording in CD-quality stereo, taking advantage of the 5G iPod’s superior stereo and monaural sampling modes, and a bold red recording light around its one-touch recording button. It also features a unique on-screen gain adjustment menu and a bottom-mounted port for an external…

  • Epson R-D1s Digital Rangefinder

    Epson R-D1s Digital Rangefinder

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    From DPReview: Epson Japan has today announced a subtly improved version of its unique R-D1 Digital Rangefinder Camera. Just like the R-D1 the R-D1s features the a six megapixel APS-C size sensor and supports Leica M and L mount lenses. New features include a ‘Quick View’ record review function, RAW+ JPEG support, Adobe RGB color…

  • The Web This Morning

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    Balkans – Milan Lukic extradited Photography – Canon 30D announced Humor – The Contract of Wifely Expectations NYT – Government reclassifying previously declassified documents

  • The Web This Morning

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    Links now open in current window. Zeiss lenses come to Nikon mount, can be forced onto Canon SLR’s New version of Photo Mechanic out today Donald Trump wants us to think he’s rich, and he’ll sue to prove it Passenger bitten by man says coverage was off Professional photographers upset at stolen photos posted all…