Two New Canon Lenses Leaked! 35mm f2 & 24-70 f4 IS

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Well here’s a turn up for the books. Two Canon lenses leaked onto the net today via Digicame-info. A 35mm f2.0 and a 24-70 f4 L IS. The 35mm will be an interesting lens, much smaller than the f1.4 L bigger brother and if it follows the same optical quality of recent 24mm and 28mm lenses it should be very nice. Now the 24-70 though….. this is just an odd lens to me! Seems like a replacement to the 24-105, but why oh why would they lower the range like that ?!! It’s also going to have recent purchasers of …

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Think Tank Launches New Retrospective 40 & 50

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I’m a big fan of the Retrospective series from Think Tank. I have a retro 10 myself for using around the city when I just need a body and a couple of lenses. It’s also my ‘vacation bag’ for going on the plane with me. This month Think Tank has launched larger versions of the bag , the 40 & 50 which are capable of holding 13″ or 15″ laptops. If you’re looking for a more covert bag to carry camera gear and a laptop then definitely take a look at these. The materials that they use are bomb proof …

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Think Tank Introduces Glass Limo

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The original Glass Taxi was an innovative pack from Think Tank that designed for carrying 300mm and 400mm which most sports photographers use. Now Think Tank is updating the lineup with the new Glass Limo, a large pack capable of carrying a 500mm with pro body attached, or a 600mm lens on its own. It also adds rails on front and sides for attaching the huge range of modular components. Purchase From Think Tank By using my link to their site you’ll be able to claim a free gift when it’s time to check out ! Press Release Think Tank …

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Use Your DSLR On A 4×5 Camera

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Multistitch is another interesting product I came across at PhotoPlus Expo last week. It allows you to mount your regular DSLR onto a 4×5 view camera to generate images with nearly four times the resolution of the DSLR. The product is a machined metal plate with a mount on it that clips onto the back of your view camera. Now obviously your 35mm DSLR sensor won’t cover the full 4×5 view with one shot so the plate is designed that you put it on and take a shot, then you rotate it 90 degrees and take a second shot. Next …

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Canon C500 IN STOCK

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Canon’s current flagship Cinema EOS camera has just hit stores and B&H has them shipping today for $25,999. That’s quite a bit cheaper than people were expecting it to be! Great news and allows you a 4K solution for in the region of $30,000 if you just add a KiPro Quad recorder.

Broncolor Move 1200 L – Ultimate Portable Strobe System?

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One of the products on my must-see list when I set off to PhotoPlus Expo was Broncolor’s new Move 1200 battery pack. It was officially announced a few months back at Photokina but with a spring 2013 launch scheduled there hasn’t been an opportunity for me to take a look until last week. As many of you who read this site often are aware, I currently have an Elinchrom Ranger system. It’s a bit long in the tooth though. In fact, I don’t think they have updated it in about ten years so these days there are better options. Faster, …

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PhotoPlus Expo Coverage

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I’m in New York right now having just finished an interesting few days at PhotoPlus Expo. I’m going to use this post as something of an index for the coverage as a few articles will be appearing on ProPhoto Coalition. On my site: On ProPhoto Coalition

Rotation 180 Pro

Mindshift Gear – A New Outdoor Photography Bag Company From Within Think Tank

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EDIT: Note that this bag is now available and I have done a HUGE in-depth review of it HERE on my new website Shutter Muse. Mindshift is an entirely new company formed from within the design studios of Think Tank Photo that will concentrate on the outdoor photography market. It will be run as a separate company but with all the same focus on design and high quality that we have come to expect from Think Tank. Products will be manufactured alongside the existing Think Tank ones and the design of the Rotation 180 Professional was done in house by …

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Canon EOS-1D X Firmware Update Gives F8 Autofocus & More…

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Canon have been listening to the desires of the professional community and implemented a very important firmware update to the EOS-1D X today. With this update the 1D X will now be able to focus with f8 lens combinations such as an 800mm f5.6 + 1.4x extender, or a 400mm f4 DO + 2x extender. This has previously been the case with 1D cameras but for some reason Canon decided to remove it from the 1D, much to many peoples annoyance. The second major fix addresses the illumination of AF points during focus and further details can be found below. …

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Behind the Shot: Aurora In Whistler

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From time to time, geomagnetic storms occur with such strength that fabled northern lights, or aurora, can be seen at much lower latitudes than you might expect. Whilst I live in Canada, I’m not that far north so this is a relatively rare occurrence. Not only do you need to get a solid storm, but it also needs to coincide with a near cloudless night, and also a night with a new moon, or one that has set very early. As with all nighttime photography, your star gazing success will be hampered if you are fighting with the light from …

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