Category: Buy a D-SLR
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Sigma new Macro tele zoom
I have always been interested by the tele zoom lenses and a 70-200mm or 80-200mm seems to me to be the ideal companion. When it opens at f/2.8, it’s really a good solution. If it’s a macro zoom, it becomes even better. Up to now, I was rather looking toward the excellent Konica-Minolta 70-200mm f/2.8…
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7D/A100 – Compared advantages
Seeing the recent launch of the new Sony Alpha A100, some people asked me whether they should buy immediately a Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D or wait a little more for a Sony Alpha A100. So, let’s try to summarize the situation. My motto, seeing the short delay, Wait for image quality. the Alpha A100 will not…
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Alpha A100, clear future
After expressing my concern about the future of the Minolta photographic system (with Konica-Minolta recently leaving the photo market, orphaning KM digital single lens refelx cameras like the Maxxum 7D), it was opportune to come back on this while Sony just presented its first Digital SLR (DSLR), the Sony Alpha A100. I sincerily believe that…
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Canon EOS beginner’s FAQ
It should be titled “SLR beginner’s FAQ” since this document is so good for so many people (not only Canon users). PhotoNotes.org presents a very nice list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Canon EOS beginners. It has to be recommended to every user new to single lens reflex camera systems. What is nice is…
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Full frame 24×36 digital sensor
Canon shocked the high-end digital camera world when announcing the Canon EOS 5D with its 12 M-pixel sensor of a full 24*36mm (also known as full frame). You lost the 1.5 conversion factor on the focal lenght of lenses, but the user grabbed some very neat advantages: A larger surface used to easily improve the…
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…
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Sony Alpha A100, first pictures
Polish magazine Fotopolis (www.fotopolis.pl) just published some images taken with the new Sony Alpha DSLR A100. They give a very first impression of the image quality of the camera. Essentially, it is impossible to know the exact state of the camera and its embedded software may not be the final version. But the limited quality…
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Sony Alpha A100; The show must go on
After the first leaked informations, most of the serious web sites around are presenting today the news of the day: Sony Alpha A100 becomes the first photo camera to enter the field of digital single lens reflex (D-SLR or DLSR) for Sony after the demise of Konica-Minolta a few months ago. To know it all…
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Sony Alpha A100, first peek
A very attentive guy found real images of the new Sony D-SLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) on the Sony-Style web site.