Monthly Archives: September 2014

Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 FE lens to be announced on Monday

This is the first picture of the Zeiss 16-35mm f/4 FE lens. The price is rumored to be around 1350 EUR. The official announcement will be on Monday.

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Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD full frame zoom lens announced

This is the new Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD full frame zoom lens I mentioned yesterday. Shipping date and price were not released. Here are the specifications:

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New: Sigma dp1 Quattro camera, three lenses and two teleconverters

Sigma announced a new dp1 Quattro camera: 29MP Foveon X3 Quattro CMOS Image Sensor TRUE III Image Processing Engine 19mm f/2.8 Lens (35mm Equivalent: 28mm) 3.0″ 920k-dot TFT LCD Screen ISO Range: 100-6400 in 1/3 Steps RAW Image Capture Max RAW Resolution of 5,424 x 3,616 Contrast Detection Autofocus Manual Focus Ring P/S/A/M Exposure Control […]

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SanDisk announced the world’s highest capacity SD memory card (512GB)

SanDisk announced the world’s highest capacity SD memory card – the 512GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I card is available for pre-order at $729 at Adorama and B&H. There are also two other new SanDisk cards with 95MB read speed: 256 GB ($359) and 128 GB ($189). Additional information:

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Canon to announce three new compact cameras: PowerShot G7 X, SX60 HS and N2

Canon is rumored to announce three new compact cameras: Canon PowerShot G7 X PowerShot SX60 HS PowerShot N2 (in pink and white) Via Digicame-info

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4K video will come to the Olympus OM-D E-M1 with a firmware update

Olympus will release a firmware update for the OM-D E-M1 MFT camera that will add 4k video recording:

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Rumor: Tamron to announce a new 15-30mm f/2.8 full frame lens tomorrow

I just received some information that Tamron will announce a new 15-30mm f/2.8 full frame lens tomorrow. Stay tuned for additional details.

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Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM pancake, EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM and EF 24-105mm f/ 3.5-5.6 IS STM lenses to be announced with the 7D MarkII

In addition to the EOS 7D Mark II, Canon will also announce the following new lenses for Photokina: Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM pancake lens (APS-C) Focal length equivalent: 38.4 mm High-precision glass molded aspherical lens Full-time manual focus Shortest shooting distance: 0.16 m Maximum magnification: 0.27X Thickness: 22.8 mm Weight: 125g Canon EF 400mm […]

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Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 Apo Planar T* lens reviews and sample images

In addition to the sample images I posted online few days ago, Zeiss uploaded on flickr several new photos taken with the $4,490 Otus 1.4/85 lens (see also their blog post). The first lens 85mm Otus reviews are also already out: Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 is the best performing portrait lens ever tested by DxOMark Review by 3d-kraft.com Review […]

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Canon 7D Mark II: leaked picture and specs

This is the first leaked picture and detailed specifications of the Canon EOS 7D Mark II DSLR camera – the official announcement will be in the next few days:

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