Picture This: We Can End Poverty is a global photography contest organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with prizes from contest sponsor Olympus up for grabs. Grand Prize for the Amateur, Professional and People’s Choice will be Olympus’ top DSLR, the Olympus E-3 packaged with a matching pro-level Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 SWD lens. Other prizes include E-620 DSLRs and Tough cameras. Everyone, amateur or professional from Click Here To Read More
Olympus has announced its PEN Lite E-PL1 Pancake Kit. The package includes an E-PL1 camera body, the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm f/2.8 lens and the optical viewfinder VF-1. In addition, Olympus also announced an eyecup for its VF-2 electronic viewfinder (EVF). The EP-9 eyecup will help block out bright light to allow better viewing of Olympus’ brilliant electronic viewfinder. It is significantly larger and will also accommodate photographers with eyeglasses. The Click Here To Read More
Canon announced earlier this week that its new IXUS 300 HS digital compact (also known as the Powershot SD4000 IS in the US and the IXY 30S in Japan)will be released by the end of this month. This IXUS is a rather interesting one because Canon is positioning this as a camera that can “take photos in beautiful and dark scenes” Shooting under low-light conditions (read: indoors) is something that Click Here To Read More
You’ve probably seen “USM”, “SWM”, “SSM”, “HSM”, “SWD” written on DSLR lens barrels and feature list, usually to imply that a given lens focuses fast and silently. Each sounds as if it came from some marketing guy with an overactive imagination. R&D Guy: “Hey, we’ve got this new lens motor technology. It’s fast and it’s quiet!” Marketing Guy: “Fast? Let’s for supersonic, like the-faster-than-sound-Concorde, but faster! Let’s call it ULTRAsonic! Click Here To Read More
EVIL. A word more commonly associated with dead zombies, clowns, Darth Vader, politicians. And now there has been a lot of buzz with EVIL cameras. It’s even spelled out in all caps E-V-I-L. A camera that’s hateful, malicious, despicable, loathsome? None of that sort of course. So what is an EVIL Camera? EVIL stands for Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens. I guess “ILEV Cameras” just doesn’t have that ring to it. Click Here To Read More
Canon’s Japanese website announced today that 40 Million EOS film and digital SLR bodies have been produced since their flagship line of cameras started coming out of their Fukushima factory in 1987. It goes on to say that 20 million of those units were Digital EOS cameras, which is an awesome number. An interesting bit of trivia: EOS stands for Electro-Optical System, which refers to the then-new electronic interface between Click Here To Read More
What The Duck is a comic strip by Aaron Johnson featuring a duck who’s into photography. A lot of these strips ring true for a lot of photographers. Today’s strip: Technorati Tags: comic, duck, funny, photography, wtd
That is a question that I often get from new acquaintances when I get introduced to them while I’m carrying my DSLR. “Are you a photographer?” This is a question that isn’t asked, for instance, when I’m introduced to new acquaintances while I’m holding my Canon IXUS 860 IS, a compact digital point-and-shoot camera that one can find in department stores. So, what is a photographer? The word photography comes Click Here To Read More
