Month: February 2010

Think Tank Announces the Retrospective 10, 20 and 30 + Retrospective lens changers

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UPDATE: These think tank bags are now available. Someone has posted a very nice review on one forum here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=875517 Purchasing through the links below will allow you to claim a free gift from Think Tank when you check out your order!! At the PMA tradeshow Think Tank Photo announced the introduction of an entirely new line of camera bags, the Retrospective series,designed to be discrete but very stylish. As camera bag designers and frontline photojournalists, we honor the role of reportage and its influence on photojournalism, said Doug Murdoch, Think Tank Photo’s president and lead designer. We understand that …

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Think Tank announces the Logitsics Manager

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At the PMA tradeshow Think Tanks announced a couple of cool new products. The first one, the Logistics Manager , is Think Tank’s largest bag to date. The rolling bag is designed to hold multiple cameras and large lenses or lighting equipment and is deep enough to hold many of the popular large strobe heads vertically. For photographers traveling with large amounts of studio lighting gear this is the case for you. Of course the case comes fitted with all the usual Think Tank accessories such as TSA combination locks and enough padding and dividers to provide a nearly infinite …

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Photography news – Feb ’10

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I’ve been on the road for the majority of the last month so posts have been a little sparse. Over the last few weeks though there have been quite a few announcements in the photography world with the PMA tradeshow taking place in the US. In case you missed any of them, here is a quick run down of new developments. Apple has announced Aperture 3. The third iteration of the popular image cataloging program features some big advances that look likely to bring it more in line with Adobe Lightroom. It even features full support for video including options …

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Camera choice, thoughts from an over crowded camera bag.

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I’m in the lucky position right now to have all three of Canons latest cameras sitting here in front of me. I have been using the 5dMKII since January last year , I purchased a 7d in August and just over two weeks ago I picked up the new Canon 1dMKIV.  Whilst I’m not going to do exhaustive comparative testing between all the cameras (I simply don’t have the time to do this and plenty of websites out there will do this anyway) I thought I should collect together some of the thoughts I have had whilst using these cameras. …

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