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Think Tank Photo Unveils New Leather Shoulder Bags

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Think Tank Photo Retrospective Leather Camera Bags

Think Tank Photo has announced new leather versions of its popular Retrospective series.

The Retrospective 5 Leather, Retrospective 7 Leather, and Retrospective 30 Leather are upscale, rugged shoulder bags that maintain the Retrospective’s casual, form-fitting design. A new Dual Cross buckle on the front flap provides an extra measure of security. The new shoulder bags are designed to hold tablets and laptops in dedicated zipper pockets.

They range in price from $199.75 to $259.75. Check them out here on Think Tank Photo’s website.

 

Canon Expo 2015 is This Week in NYC

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Canon Expo

The Canon Expo comes to New York this week. Canon does this every five years to showcase its innovations designed for a broad range of industries, from healthcare to business and manufacturing to the arts.

The Canon Expo kicks off Thursday, September 10 at the Javits Center and will run through Friday, September 11. Canon highlights is current product lines but also shows off new tech that is in development.

We’ve already seen announcements this week for a new Canon Cinema EOS 8K camera and a 120MP DSLR. Stay tuned for what else we might see on the show floor the rest of the week.

You can learn more about the expo here on the Canon Expo website.

What’s Different When You’re Freezing Movement with High-Speed Sync?

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In this short video, Jared Platt shows how to freeze motion using high-speed sync with the Profoto B1 and B2 heads, which work with TTL flash systems on Canon and Nikon DSLRs.

While he demos the Profoto kit, the same rules apply to smaller speedlight kits and other TTL monolights and flash heads. With purely manual flash communication, however, you are limited to the sync speed of your camera (often around 1/200s) and won’t be able to freeze that motion.

35mm Full Frame, APS-C, and 1.0-Type Sensor Depth of Field Comparison

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In this short video, Gary Fong takes a look at full frame, APS-C and 1.0-type cameras to see how the depth of field is affected at the same effective focal lengths.

The challenge, of course, is that you must change the actual focal length of your lens to accommodate the same field of view on cameras with different sensor sizes. Invariably, this changes the depth of field so that the camera with the smaller sensor appears to have a much greater depth of field, while the full frame camera has a much shallower depth of field.

Gary’s demo is a nice practical demonstration of how these different camera sensors provide different images when shooting the same scene from the same position.

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Canon 120MP DSLR Under Development

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As if the Canon EOS 5Ds wasn’t enough already at 50MP, Canon has announced that it is developing a 120MP DSLR.

Canon says that “[t]he camera under development is being designed to facilitate a level of resolution more than sufficient for large-format printing and extensive cropping capability while maintaining fantastic image quality.”

Canon notes that the camera is built for the current EF system lenses; however, it will apparently not be compatible with all of the lenses in the Canon EF line. According to a footnote in Canon’s press release, “Out of the 96 lenses that make up the EF lens lineup, 60 models will be compatible with the [new 120MP DSLR].” [Read more…]

Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS II USM Lens Patent

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Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS II USM Lens Patent Diagram

Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS II USM Lens Patent Diagram

In a recently published patent application, Canon details a new 35mm f/2 lens. You can see the optical formula in the above diagram.

The lens construction is 104.5mm long, so it is quite a bit longer than the current model at 62.6mm. The patent also covers a revised image stabilizing system to the current EF 35mm f/2 IS USM.

It was filed on March 31, 2015. You can read it for yourself below. As always, let me know if anything else jumps out. [Read more…]

How to Set Up Clamshell LIghting

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Here’s an old video from Phlearn in which Aaron Nace walks through a clamshell lighting setup. If you’ve never done clamshell lighting before, you’ll appreciate Aaron’s thorough walk-through of the how’s and why’s of setting up and using clamshell lighting.

Keeping with the clamshell theme, below is another take on clamshell lighting from Matt Granger using a clamshell setup outdoors. [Read more…]