Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Hoya has announced that it will be selling Pentax’s camera business to Ricoh. The deal should take effect on October 1, 2011 and is reported to be a $124 million selling price.
Interestingly, Ricoh has a history with the Pentax K-mount. My first SLR was a Ricoh KR-Super II (shown above), which is a K-mount camera that was basically a Pentax K1000 knockoff. Who knew that a couple of decades later Ricoh would acquire the K-mount system for its own? [Read more…]
Sanyo has announced a new line of Eneloop-powered rechargeable batteries. The XX-branded batteries are targeted toward photographers due to their 2500 mAh high capacity cell. [Read more…]
The newly announced Olympus E-P3 is available for pre-order at B&H, which usually means (at B&H anyway) that it will be in stock and ready to ship soon.
You can also get in the pre-order line for the E-P3 at Amazon and Adorama.
Sigma’s new 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro lens is now available. While Sigma’s listed retail price of the lens is $1400, street prices are closer to the $1100 range. You can find it at B&H Photo.
There are other posts on Photography Bay With the Fourth of July holiday upon those of us in the United States, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share some inspirational photos to kickstart ideas for our attempts at getting great shots of fireworks shows.
Check them all out below. [Read more…]
Olympus has opened up its Micro Four Thirds line of cameras to three new cameras. The Olympus E-PM1, E-PL3 and E-P3 (shown above) essentially make up the small, medium and large categories for the series. Of course, “large” is a relative term with respect to the Olympus Micro Four Thirds line as a whole.
If you’ve followed any of the news about Final Cut Pro X since its release, then you’ve probably heard some pretty nasty things.
Apple is in full-fledged damage control mode right now in response to the backlash from pro users. [Read more…]
Red Giant Software has released Magic Bullet Suite 11, which includes a total of 9 Magic Bullet products, such as Looks, Colorista II and Grinder.
To show off the effects offered by the new Magic Bullet Suite, the Red Giant Software team put together the following short film, Plot Device, using programs within the suite for effects and grading. [Read more…]
In what could be the biggest camera launch of the year, one of Nikon Rumors’ sources has tipped the launch of the Nikon D4 and D400 for August.
Given the coming Sony A77 with a 24MP sensor, it is most likely that the D400 will sport the same 24MP APS-C sensor but labeled with the ubiquitous “Developed by Nikon” asterisk seen in recent Nikon pro-DSLR specs. The D400 will almost certainly feature 1080p video to follow the recent trend of Nikon DSLRs. Hopefully, the D400 will avoid the cumbersome aperture adjustment problem that made the Nikon D7000 more frustrating for video capture.
As for the Nikon D4, [Read more…]
Wedding photographer Brian Adams and wedding videographer Rainer Flor took it upon themselves to shoot an entire wedding with an iPhone 4. Before you turn your nose up at the thought of it, check out their results below. [Read more…]