Canon has announced the dates and locations today for their Photography In The Parks program that allows people free professional instruction and also free loan of photo and video equipment for the workshops. CANON U.S.A. ENCOURAGES NATIONAL PARKS VISITORS TO UNLEASH THEIR CREATIVITY THIS SUMMER WITH FREE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS Canon’s Photography in the Parks Program Equips Visitors with Free Camera and Camcorder Loans, Professional Photography Lessons and a Unique, Hands-On Experience to Create Lasting Memories LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 4, 2012 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is once again joining forces with several of …
Many new owners of D4s and D800s were plagues with intermittent lockups. Nikon has now posted firmware updates to fix this issue. Get the D800 fix HERE and the D4 fix HERE. Official Fix
Adobe has released an update today, Lightroom 4.1 which adds RAW support for the Canon 5D MKIII to Lightroom 4. Looks like it’s time to upgrade finally ! The update also adds support for the new Leica X2 and the Leica Monochrom if your pockets are that deep, as well as adding many new lens profiles such as the worth-its-weight-in-gold Leica Summicron 50mm. Download the updates from Adobe and read a full list of bug fixes and newly supported cameras : Lightroom 4 update. ACR 7.1 update
Launched some months ago, we are now nearing delivery of the new Canon 24mm and 28mm primes with IS. I had a chance to try out both of these lenses at a Canon event in Vancouver earlier in the year. Read this write up for my first impressions and some sample images. I think when these lenses were fist announced the whole community let out a collective huh? Non-L primes with IS and f2.8 ? Well that is the way I certainly felt until I got my hands on them. They are built very nicely, not quite L-quality but close. …
Following this mornings announcement from Canon that the new 500mm and 600mm lenses were now beginning to ship to dealers in Europe, B&H has updated their site to allow pre-orders of these two exciting new lenses. This usually only happens when items are expected to arrive in stock relatively soon. There’s a lot of buzz around what look likely to be Canon’s sharpest ever lenses and with people having to have waited more than a year for these to finally come to market I would expect demand to be relatively high initially for such a high priced item. If you …
UPDATE: B&H is now offering both of these lenses for pre-order. They typically only do this when things get relatively close to arriving. Finally!! After many delays, the lenses that were announced more than a year ago are now “shipping to selected dealers in Europe” according to Canon CPN. No word yet on N.American dealers but I would expect to hear any time soon. This comes just one day after hearing that the first of the Canon 1D X cameras are also starting to ship to select photographers covering Euro 2012 and the London Olympics. Is Canon finally getting back …
We’ve seen this lens behind glass at many a trade show in the last 12 months, the first of a pair of high end weather sealed Panasonic zoom lenses for the Micro Four Thirds System. Today Panasonic finally confirmed the last piece of the puzzle, that the maximum f-stop is f2.8 and they officially announced the lens. No word yet on the second of the two but it could possibly come fairly shortly with the expected GH-3 which should also be a weather sealed body to match the lenses. Being a higher end product, and having seen this lens myself …
Interesting to see today that Fuji have unexpectedly launched both a 28mm wide angle lens adapter for the X100 and also firmware version 1.3 . I think it’s pretty safe to say in that case that we can expect to see this camera current for at least another 6 months. Now would be as good a time to buy one as any. I still have my own X100 and yes I still love it! I’ll definitely be taking a look at this adapter when it comes out. Valhalla, N.Y., May 15, 2012 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation today announced an …
To Users of the EF200mm f/2L IS USM and EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM Lenses with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR Camera.
Thank you for using Canon products.
We have confirmed that when the EF200mm f/2L IS USM and some units of the EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM lenses are used with the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR Camera, the Lenses may emit an abnormal noise.
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital SLR Camera does not need to be repaired as a result of this phenomenon.
Leica have released another variation of camera based on the old M9 platform. Last year we saw the M9-P and for Spring 2012 we now have the M-Monochrom, an M9-P that only allows shooting in black and white. It forgoes the usual anti-aliasing filters and color array filters found on nearly every digital camera and as a result, no demosaicing is required at all on the final image. This is not simply a color camera that has B&W mode permanently turned on! It should be able to resolve much higher detail and be much more accurate in terms of subtle …
Today Leica has unveiled their new X2 compact, fixed lens camera. On the outside there appears to be very little different apart from a socket to attach an optional EVF. Very sadly this camera has the same 230,000 dot LCD screen as it’s predecessor. The problem that I have with this screen is that it was a bad screen two and a half years ago. Nearly every single review complained about it at the time and Leica has simply ignored this fact. Two and a half years is eons in today’s world, which sees many technological advancements ever couple of …
Aquatcech have unveiled their new housing for the Canon 5D Mark 3 today, the DCV-V3. Essentially the design remains unchanged from previous versions but of course updated to account for the new button layout of the 5DMK3. You can also purchase an upgrade kit to convert both your previous DCV-v2 5D MK2 housing, or your 7D housing. Price looks to be $1895