Photo curiosity
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Tell me your camera brand, and I will tell you what you are
After all, this is only a minor transformation of the adage (“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”) of Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, illustrious French epicure and gastronome of the XVIIIth Century. We can easily recognize many personal characteristics of the owner of a photo camera, just by looking at the…
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30mm Sigma for Sony NEX
Confirming their participation in the race for more E-mount lenses for the Sony NEX family of cameras, Sigma presented a prototype of the upcoming 30mm f/2.8 E.
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Sigma: price for the f/2.8 lenses
Sigma revealed the official prices for the high-end lenses presented yesterday: 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM: $4700 Macro 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM: $1600
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Sony booth at Yokohama
CP+ Sony’s Booth – Sony Alpha Advance Model, Sony’s 2011 Camera Line-up and other Prototype. from SpacePigTV on Vimeo. Source: AkihabaraNews.com
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Transparent Sony SLT-A77 (Updated)
Sony does not promise that this is exactly the Sony Alpha SLT A77 (successor to the current Sony Alpha 700), they merely tell us that this is a mid-range SLT photo camera expected in 2011. However, this is quite exactly the description of the Sony SLT-A77: As a matter of fact, at the CP+ show…
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Sony NEX lens roadmap (E-mount)
Quite interesting: Sony Japan published a roadmap of the future lenses for the NEX line-up. Even in Japanese, it is quite easy to discover what is being prepared for the next two years:
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New tele-zoom at Sigma
The Sigma APO 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM will allow Sigma to offer second generation image stabilization (with the ability to reach 4 EV improvements) on a wide aperture tele-zoom lens (f/2.8). Now, this is usually the realm of the very best lenses (the f/2.8 aperture at 300mm is normally associated in our mind…
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Pentax announces limited edition Silver K-5
Back to the classics. Pentax announces a limited edition of the Pentax K-5. This time, despite the habits that Pentax was forming, this is not a colorful variant, but a very wise and quiet SILVER model. Back to tradition? Three nice lenses will also received the SILVER treatment: SMC PENTAX-DA 21mm f/3.2 AL Limited Silver…
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Three new Sigma lenses
Sigma announces the launch of three new lenses in its EX series (high-end and pro lenses). Sigma 12-24mm f/4-5.6 EX DG HSM II is a new improved version of its widest zoom lens Sigma Macro 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM is both stabilized and Macro 1:1 Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC APO OS HSM…