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.
Great stuff from Nikon this month. The D600 is a very impressive little camera !
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, …
Stranded in Manhattan during the storm of the century, I knew I had to make something unique, no matter how wet I was going to get!
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: One Click – Hurricane Sandy Hits New York Broncolor Move 1200 L – The Ultimate Battery Strobe ? Multistitch – Use a DSLR on a 4×5 camera. Mindshift Rotation 180 Pro – A new outdoor photo backpack from Mindshuft which is a Think Tank Photo Company. On ProPhoto Coalition Leica M – Hands on Schneider Tilt …
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 …
Apple announced a slew of new products yesterday and all of them have potential to offer something for the photographer. As I sit here waiting for my flight to PhotoPlus Expo in New York I thought I’d put down some thoughts on these new products as I am , or have been considering several of them myself. First let’s start with the new iMac. This represents one of the largest jumps in design for the iMac since the very beginning of line. The new ultra-thin panel and curved back design give the illusion of an impossibly thin machine and from …
Sandisk has a great deal running on Amazon today where you can get more than 70% discount on selected CF and SD cards. One day only through so get clicking if you want one (or three).
The Canon 5D MK2 may be on its way out but it’s still a heck of a camera and there is nothing at all wrong with the 24-105mm f4 L IS lens. B&H is running a crazy deal on that package that also included the Canon Pro 9000 MK2 printer all for only $2199 after the rebate!
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. …
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 …
Canon’s first ever mirrorless CSC will begin shipping from major N.American stores today, October 15th. The APS-C sensored camera is the fist such camera from Canon who now joins Sony, Panasonic, Olympus and Nikon in offering near-pocketsized interchangeable lens cameras.