Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
The Canon Rebel T2i is an 18MP DSLR that follows up the popular Canon Rebel T1i. The Canon Rebel T2i is geared toward entry-level shooters with a number of features and components that make it a very powerful camera suitable for serious shooters as well. After spending a few hours with it, I wanted to provide my first impressions, along with some impromptu sample shots. [Read more…]
Canon has provided further details on the new Canon 5D Mark II firmware, which will be available for download later this month. The new firmware version 2.0.3 will enable the Canon 5D Mark II to capture 1080p video at 24fps (actual 23.976fps) and will change the 30fps rate to NTSC standard 29.97fps. The 5D Mark II will also be able to capture 1080p video at the PAL standard of 25fps. Additional tweaks include an histogram display for shooting movies in manual exposure, shutter-priority and aperture-priority, manual control over sound recording levels and a broadcast standard audio sampling frequency.
More details available from Canon’s website.
One of the flagship announcements at PMA 2010 was the Samsung TL500, which is a serious point and shoot camera that matches up well against the popular Canon G11. I had to opportunity to spend a little time with a preproduction TL500 while at PMA 2010. As with other prepoduction models that I encountered, I was not allowed to bring back sample images or video to share with you.
The TL500 packs a 10MP 1/1.7″ CCD sensor and a 3x optical zoom lens, which has an f/1.8 max aperture on the wide end. When zoomed out to full tele, the max aperture becomes f/2.4. In addition to the headline bright aperture lens, the TL500 also touts a beautiful, swiveling 3-inch AMOLED screen.
The Canon Rebel T1i has received a firmware update to version 1.1.0. The new firmware addresses the following issues:
The firmware update and upgrade instructions are available from Canon’s website.
Read Photography Bay’s Canon Rebel T1i Review.
Canon has updated its Digital Photo Professional software to version 3.8 and 3.8.1 for Windows and Mac users, respectively. The new version of DPP ships with the Canon Rebel T2i and includes other new features and enhancements. Additionally, Canon has updated several ancillary software products as follows:
EOS Utility 2.8.1
Picture Style Editor 1.7.0
WFT Utility 3.5.1
Original Data Security Tools 1.8.0
The updated software is available from Canon’s Download Library.
If you missed out on making it to PMA 2010, but still want to see everything in the Samsung booth, check out the video below. [Read more…]
Fuji took an interesting turn earlier this month with the introduction of a medium format film camera – the Fuji GF670 Professional. I don’t have much more information other than what was available at the time of the announcement; however, you will find a number of up close photos along with some additional commentary on the new medium format shooter below. [Read more…]
Apple has updated Aperture 3 to version 3.0.1. Release notes for the new software version include improvements in the following areas: [Read more…]
One of the cameras that I have fielded many questions and comments on recently has been the new megazoom, Fuji Finepix HS10. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to spend some hands-on time with a preproduction model at PMA 2010. [Read more…]
