Category: SLR

  • Olympus m4/3 roadmap

    After a few recent announcements, Olympus just disclosed its roadmap of the micro 4/3 format. It becomes quite clear that Olympus is concentrating a lot of efforts on this format, and that the perspective becomes more readable. Nota bene: At the same time, Olympus UK reduces the price of an E-PL1 kit with the M.Zuiko…

  • Zeiss Distagon T* 35mm f/1.4

    Faithful to its age-old fame, Carl Zeiss shows us a new wide-angle lens aiming at the high-end of the market, at least because of the “widigantic” aperture of f/1.4. Available in Canon and Nikon mounts at 1385€, from the first quarter of 2011.

  • Olympus is long in 4/3

    At Olympus, the pressure is on micro 4/3 in this second half of 2010. Here come two tele-zooms and some photo cameras. There was a dire need of a respectable tele-zoom in the Olympus lens range. This is now corrected with nothing less than a 75-300 mm f/4,8-6,7 (equivalent to a 150-600mm). If this was…

  • ACR 6.2 and LR 3.2 love Sony

    Yes! Adobe loves Sony. The final releases of DNG Converter 6.2, Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 and Lightroom 3.2 includes RAW file conversion for the Sony Alpha 33, Alpha 55, Alpha 290, Alpha 390, NEX-5 and NEX-3. Those were included in the Release Candidate versions, but they become official/final now. Of course, other cameras are also…

  • Panasonic camera users have more sex

    In the “randomly weird” category, here is a bit of information which I would not dare classify as critically interesting. According to OkCupid (a dating web site willing to be described as more “intelligent” than others), you can draw your own challenging conclusions by cross-checking available data from users profiles. For example, since he users…

  • Canon EOS 550D User Manual

    I is often quite difficult to find the user manual of a good SLR camera like the Canon EOS 550D (aka Canon T2i or Kiss X4). This is the reason why I decided to share with you the result of my searches. You will become able to evaluate correctly the features of the this nice…

  • Why Sony uses a semi-transparent mirror in A33/A55

    The most recent SLR photo cameras from Sony, the Sony Alpha 33 and Sony Alpha 55 are presenting a striking feature: a semi-transparent mirror replacing the usual reflex mirror that we knew up to now. This looks very nice in the press releases, what does that mean and why use such a technology? Cross-section view…

  • Operation of the shutter and mirror of Sony A33 & A55

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  • Canon EOS 60D video

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