Category: Equipment

The last two months or so has been a wild ride at Luma Labs, the camera accessory company that I’m a co-owner of with Greg Koenig. To give a bit of background, we launched our company with an improved camera sling last year called the Loop to a warm reception. It did well and was a great product, but we knew it could be better. So we dug in, did our homework, and came up with a second-generation Loop that improved on every single aspect of the original, including having a bad-ass new connector that took a lot of collaboration and design work to come up with.

Link: Luma’s Wild Fall Season / Duncan Davidson

Pentax, however, got the last laugh, finally turning the camera from vapour-ware to reality this spring.  At 40MP, it sits right on the current plateau of the MFSLR world, lining up at eye-level with the Hasselbad H4-40 and the PhaseOne P40+.  But this is no mere “me too” entrant into the class.

Link: Pentax 645D – A First Review

It’s hard for me not to sound a bit overzealous about the GH2 and these two new lenses. I was predisposed toward the GH1, and now with the GH2 Panasonic has mostly fixed those few deficiencies that the GH1 had

Link: Panasonic GH2 First Look

Mr. Digital Clover, Your New Lo-Fi Photographic Friend

Mr Digital Clover, or Digi Clover San, is a tiny 2.0-megapixel piece of plastic junk. He will be your new best friend. Clover San is a camera small enough to string on a keychain ( 1.5 x 2.4 x 0.8-inches) and yet powerful enough to capture some of the mos

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/mr-digital-clover-your-new-lo-fi-photographic-friend/

5D Mark II Replacement

Time to address the questions I am getting a ton of questions regarding the 5D Mark II and how much longer it’s going to be a current camera. While I obviously

via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/10/5d-mark-ii-replacement/

Pentax Announces U.S. Availability of 645D

This morning at 8 a.m. Mountain Time, Pentax USA announced that it will import, sell, and service the eagerly awaited Pentax 645D medium-format digital camera. The camera body will ship in December 2010 for $9,995.95. The SMC Pentax-D FA 645…

via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/10/pentax-announces-us-availability-of-645d.html

Color Splash Flash, the $30 Camera Rainbow

The Color Splash flash adds a splash of color to your flash. It’s a dirt-cheap, plastic flashgun that contains 12 different colored gels. To select a color, just turn the dial and the gels are rotated in front of the flash-tube. You can even split a shot

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/color-splash-flash-the-30-camera-rainbow/

Olympus: The DSLR is Dead

Olympus SLR boss Toshiyuki Terada has said that the company will make no more entry-level SLRs. Speaking in an interview, Terada said that “We do not have concrete plans to replace the E-620 and other recent SLRs.” But don’t worry, Olympus isn’t about to

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/olympus-the-dslr-is-dead/