admin | February 4, 2010
Software maker Topaz Labs has released Detail 2, its detail enhancement and sharpening plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The latest version features a redesigned interface, more editing tools and promises faster processing speed. It is available as a free upgrade for existing users or $39.99 for first-time buyers.
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admin | February 3, 2010
Samyang Optics has announced its 14mm f/2.8 lens will be available from March 2010 at a retail price of €329. After a brief production delay last year, the final version will be made available in Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony and Olympus four-thirds mount.
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admin | February 3, 2010
HDR software maker, Unified Color Technologies has announced its HDR PhotoStudio software now available for Mac. It is based on the company’s ‘Beyond RGB’ color model that attempts to separate the brightness and color components of the image data to allow the brightness levels from multiple exposures to be combined without abberent color shifts. The [...]
admin | February 3, 2010
Ricoh has released the CX3 compact superzoom with a 10 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor. It offers the same 10x (28-300mm equiv.) optical zoom lens and 920k dot, 3 inch LCD as the CX2 compact, but sees the addition of 720p HD video recording, a ‘Pets’ scene mode and enhanced noise reduction.
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admin | February 2, 2010
Olympus has officially announced the E-PL1, a simplifeid, less expensive addition in its Micro-Four Thirds camera range. With an MSRP of $599/€599/£549 the latest PEN ncludes many of the features of its big brothers, the EP-1 and EP-2 and also adds a built-in flash. We’ve had an E-PL1 for the past few days and have [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Olympus has given more detail of the two Micro Four Thirds lenses it announced in November 2009. First is the tiny 9-18mm F4-5.6 wideangle zoom, which becomes the second lens to feature Olympus’s clever collapsing barrel design, making it less than half the size of the corresponding Four Thirds lens for carrying. It offers a [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Today we have something a bit different for you over on SLRgear: Rather than testing and reviewing a single lens, we’ve partnered with LensRentals.com to test *5* different samples of the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. Sample variation is a significant issue for users, reviewers, and manufacturers. As a user, the issue is whether a [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Tokina has launched its first lens in Sony’s Alpha mount. The AT-X 116 Pro DX 11-16 mm f/2.8 lens will be available in Japan from from February 24th, 2010 at an approximate retail price of ¥94,500 (around US $1046). This announcement means Tokina becomes the last of the big three third-party lens makers to support [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
We’re updating - or rather overhauling, our ratings system and we thought some of you might be interested to see the direction we’re moving in. We’re still ironing out a few wrinkles and fine-tuning a few aspects but we’re more or less ready to roll with the new ratings and scores as soon as we [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Just posted! Our lens review of the Sigma 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM. Sigma’s latest superzoom is essentially an extension of the company’s older 18-200mm design, but now sports both optical image stabilization and an in-lens hypersonic autofocus motor for users of Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Sony DSLRs. But in this popular segment of the [...]
