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Canon 40mm f2.8 STM Product Advisory

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Canon have posted a product advisory relating to the excellent little 40mm f2.8 STM. It doesn’t seem to affect all the 40mm STM lenses though as I was anable to get my copy to produce the documented issue. To Users of the EF40mm f/2.8 STM Interchangeable Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras Thank you for using Canon products. It has been confirmed that the autofocusing function of the EF40mm f/2.8 STM lens, which was released in June 2012, may not operate correctly. The details of this phenomenon are described below. Affected ProductEF40mm f/2.8 STM PhenomenonIf pressure is applied to the …

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Canon 7D Firmware Version 2 Is Here – BIG Updates

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You can finally download the previously announced V2 firmware for the Canon 7D HERE from Canon. The press release below walks you through all the changes and if you are a 7D shooter then you are going to be feeling pretty good about now. There are a lot of improvements and to me it doesn’t seem like this would be something that Canon would be doing if there was a 7D MKIII just around the corner. Canon EOS 7D firmware v2 – new features: Press ReleaseLondon, UK, 28 June 2012 – Canon today enhances the EOS 7D with firmware v2, …

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Free Model Release iOS App From The ASMP

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There’s a few model release apps in the Apple App store that you have to pay for but they are some of the most expensive apps out there. This time the ASMP has put out a FREE one! Can’t say fairer than that. Check it out. “A must have app for professional photographers working in all genres of the business. Photographer can customize a Model or Property release using the ASMP standard releases. The app allows you to create templates, take a photograph of the subject, specify the uses for the images, including any sensitive or digital manipulation issues, and …

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Canon Makes Mirrorless Official – EOS M

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Canon’s ship is typically a leaky one so we’ve had full specs and photos of this camera for a few days now. Today though Canon officially launched their EOS-M mirrorless camera platform. Canon are last to the mirrorless market amongst the big players and on paper they have come out with an impressive package. Most noticeably, the camera is TINY. It is actually smaller than the Panasonic GF5 Mirco Fourthirds camera but critically it packs a full APS-C sized sensor and not a smaller M 4/3 one. An 18MP APS-C sensor no less. The camera will begin shipping with either …

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Canon’s Mirrorless Camera Leaked – EOS M

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Canon are finally making the jump into the mirrorless market and the first images of the first camera, expected to be officially launched on Sunday night, have leaked onto the internet via DigicameInfo and Canon Rumors. Details are relatively thin on the ground at the moment but what is clear is that this camera has a pretty big sensor (probably APS-C) and the camera itself is TINY. We’re talking the size of a G1 X here. It will also ship with a 22mm f2.0 lens which would be close to a 35mm equivalent if the sensor is indeed APS-C. What …

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Canon’s On Screen EOS-1D X User Guides

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Here’s a little interesting piece of Canon news regarding the EOS-1D X.  Canon has launched a series of videos guides which are designed to be played back on the camera.  You can download the videos right HERE and then load them onto a memory card to keep out in the field with you or on a trip.  The EOS-1D X shares a lot of the functionality of the EOS 5D Mark III and having used that camera for a few months now I can tell you that it is probably the first camera I’ve ever owned where I absolutely NEEDED …

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Panasonic Launches The DMC-G5

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Another M4/3 camera has joined the fray today from Panasonic. Those hoping to see some modicum of weather sealing to match the new Lumix X lenses will be disappointed though. So it remains then that if you shoot Panasonic you can only weather seal the lens and not the camera which is very odd. I guess they are saving that for a GH-3 which we might see at Photokina, in the mean time though everyone is going out and buying an Olympus O-MD E-M5 instead. The standout feature in this announcement for me though is the fact that it can …

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Think Tank Sling Test Drive Program. Try Bags For Free!

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My friends at Think Tank Photo have just announced that they are launching one of their popular Test Drive programs. This one is for their revolutionary Sling-O-Matic sling bags. With Think Tank Photo’s Sling-O-Matic™ line-up of bags you have the photo industry’s first sling bag that can be easily switched back and forth to either shoulder. The Sling-O-Matic’s adjustable, fully padded shoulder strap “automatically” slides along a set of rails to change which shoulder the bag can be worn on. You can try a Sling-O-Matic for free for 30 days! If you don’t want to keep it, ship it back …

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Olympus E-M5 Firmware Update

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Olympus has posted the first firmware update for the highly acclaimed E-M5. Firmware changes – Improved sleep recovery operation.– AF target is indicated when using C-AF+TR while shooting sequential images using Sequential L setting. – Added function to automatically move focus to the following zoom positions when underwater macro mode or underwater wide mode is selected. (Only when M. ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-50 mm F3.5-6.3 EZ is attached)– Underwater wide mode: Wide setting– Underwater macro mode: Telephoto setting

Nikon Announces Development Of 800mm f5.6 Lens

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Oh dear….. Nikon has started to do what Canon has been doing with these semi-announcements, or ‘development announcements’. In other words we are told that this lens is coming but other than the fact that it has an 800mm focal length, an f5.6 aperture and VR we have no further info. No idea on price or when it might be shipping and we’ll likely see a ‘proper’ announcement later in the year, most likely at Photokina where the lens will be on display. Canon have had an 800mm f5.6 for some time now and given that Canon has played catch …

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