Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Canon USA has the 5D Mark III refurbished for $2,674.21 as part of its “Spend $500 & Save $125” deal right now (compare to $3,499 new). Also, there’s free shipping with the promo code DAD613 right now. Check it out here at Canon USA.
FYI, these usually sell out pretty quickly when Canon USA posts them.
New rumors suggest a Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM is in the works with an announcement coming soon for the Canon EOS M line. Of course, there are rumors of a new EOS M model coming soon as well – as early as this summer. [Read more…]
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off next week with the keynote on June 10. Historically, the keynote has been a place to show off new Apple products and get the developers excited with the latest iOS and OS X news.
Tight supplies of Apple computers often signals that they have a replacement in the pipeline very soon. And that just happens to be the case with the Mac Pro, which is backordered at numerous retailers that normally have a healthy stock and quick shipments. [Read more…]
What would you do if you had a 1992 Toyota Paseo that you wanted to sell?
Craigslist. Right?
A handful of people might see your ad and you may or may not sell it. [Read more…]
TWISTEX Storm Chasing Team
Yesterday, we shared a video of storm chasers who were caught in the middle of Friday’s tornado in Union City, Oklahoma. They closely escaped.
Sadly, though, three storm chasers of the TWISTEX storm chasing team were caught in the tornado near El Reno, Oklahoma and lost their lives. [Read more…]
It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.
Check out the rest of the photos below. [Read more…]
Storm chasers Brandon Sullivan and Brett Wright were in the middle of yesterday’s tornados in Oklahoma. And, by “in the middle”, I mean literally in the middle of a tornado. As you can see in the above video, they clearly got too close for comfort and barely escaped. [Read more…]
Have you seen the Magic Lantern raw video on the Canon 5D Mark III and wondered how to make that happen?
The raw video capability isn’t yet enabled in the latest stable version – only in the nightly build updates. However, if you want to check out the latest stable builds to get a handles on how to use Magic Lantern on your Canon HDSLR, watch Dave Dugdale from Learning DSLR Video in the above video as he breaks down the rather simple install process with his Canon Rebel T3i.
[Learning DSLR Video via PetaPixel]
It’s been quite some time since we have heard anything about the Nikon D400. When the D7100 launched, there was a lot of concern that the D400 wouldn’t show up to replace the D300s after all, and that Nikon would allow the D7100 to remain atop the DX camera lineup and the D600 would sit at the low end of the FX line as a gap-bridger to the D800.
New rumors suggest that the D400 was, in fact, pushed back in Nikon’s DSLR line-up in order to allow the D7100 to shine for awhile on its own. Of course, the D7100 is an excellent camera in its own right; however, it is still missing some things that you expect on a proper D300s replacement. [Read more…]
Fuji has released a firmware update for the X100S. Firmware version 1.03 provides the following bug fix:
The phenomenon is fixed that in rare cases a grainy image like TV fuzz could appear on LCD under a certain shooting condition..
You can download the update on Fuji’s website.