Well Fuji seems to have a supply of Rabbits… New X10 announced!

Looks like the team at Fuji is on a roll. The X10 seems a logical next step on the success of the x100. Here are some images of the X10 and a link to the website for the specs. Ok now to start figuring what to pimp the X10 out with, hmmm all black I [...]

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New product range. Custom Brackets USA

We are very excited to have been appointed the distributor for Custom Brackets of the USA. They make a range of innovative flash rotating brackets, lens gimbal units to their new tilt head. Quite simply the range is one of the best made and best thought out solutions for photographers needing these types of products. [...]

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Improve your Photography. Learn about yourself.

If you are going to pay to learn about something there is one key factor that will make the difference between just completing  a course or actually achieving a transformation. The quality of the teacher.  Lenard Metcalf is a teacher and trainer of the highest calibre and also a very accomplished photographer. Len’s runs Len’s [...]

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Cosina joins Micro Four Thirds group

Seems Cosina are really becoming the movers and shakers to watch with this press release made on Friday. Announced jointly by Olympus Imaging Corporation (President Masaharu Okubo) and Panasonic Corporation in 2008, the Micro Four Thirds System standard has rapidly grown in popularity. Now, support for the standard is expanding with the decision of COSINA [...]

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New 90mm 3.5 Apo Lanthar SL II lenses have arrived!

Yesterday we received our first delivery of these superb close focus and portrait lenses. Available in both EOS and Nikon mount they are priced at a very reasonable $645.00 and $595.00. Price includes the hood and special close up filter which allows you to get to 32 cm. They are not called true Macro lenses [...]

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Nissan ad shot with Canon 5d

Nissan got around all the laws in the US and Canada buy reducing it’s Sentra to model size! Very clever indeed! All of this was shot on a Canon 5D. Enjoy!

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Interested in HDR photography then go no further Stuck in Customs has all the answers!

Whether you love it or hate it HDR is here to stay and the master of it is Trey Ratcliff who runs the website “Stuck in Customs” he is kind of like a gentleman traveller who is smart, funny and most of all producing a unique art form known as HDR photography. I really like [...]

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How to build a PC for best imaging and Photoshop performance.

These days with a little bit of effort designing and building your own PC can reap many benefits than just buying off the shelf. This post comes to us from Mainline Customer and Digital guru Jeremy Dadller of Image Science in Melbourne. The heart of the system is the Intel i7 chip. Jeremy writes: The [...]

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Viewfinders for the Panasonic Lumix LX3 & Leica Dlux 4

It seems that smart folks have discovered how to turn the Panasonic Lumix LX3 or Leica DLUX 4 into very usable street and travel photography cameras,  with the addition of an external viewfinder. Even though the wide setting on these cameras is 24mm the finder of choice is actually a 21mm! Judging by the amount [...]

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New goodies! The Sun Sniper camera strap…

Introducing the SUN SNIPER CAMERA sling! A new way of carrying your DSLR! or even works great with a compact digi cam. The camera strap has evolved…. A simple idea based on the 1885 US calvary strap! The SUN-SNIPER-STRAP, made by SUN-SNIPER GmbH, is the new generation of quick, pliant and ultra convenient camera straps [...]

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Leica pulls a rabbit out of their hat. Will the M9 become the digital equal of the M6.

Well then…. Leica get’s it right with the M9… kind of reminds me of the M5 and then Leica got it right with the highly successful M6 which sold virtually unchanged for 24 years! Now that’s what I call a product life cycle. This camera will be a winner on all front’s for them. Full [...]

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Looks like with the G11 Canon has got it right! New G11 due in September.

Finally… after straying from the path over to the darkside with the G series 7,9 and 10 models… (which were all great cameras in their own right but each of them missed hitting the bullseye) but it now looks like Canon have listened and learn’t from the past and the new G11 is set to [...]

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So the Olympus Pen EP-1 has some competition from Panasonic. Pre release leak confirms GF1

Well well… I knew that the little Digtial Pen EP1 would spark at least a few clones. Having had one on loan for a couple of weeks now I straight away saw the potential this type of camera has. I also thought that other smart manufacturers must be ready to jump on the bandwagon… These [...]

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Get a wider view! How to create great Digital Panoramas. Tools for the job and know how.

If you own a decent digital camera you can create some darn good Panoramas. Why is panoramic photography so popular what is it that makes it look so good? simply because it re creates what we see… when we take in that breathlessly beautiful vista we are seeing in as they say panoramas. Interested in [...]

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New B+W filter guide for digital photography.

Attention all photographers!!! There is so much mis- information on using filters on the internet. Don’t get caught out… why waste your time and money on what some 16 year old has posted on a forum, get the good oil from the best filter manufacturer on the planet B+W. The folks at B+W have produced [...]

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New Voigtlander 15mm 4.5 M mount lens. First take. Very nice!

Cosina certainly are not the type of company to sit back and watch the world pass them by. Every new product they bring out is a winner and here is another one. We have just received our first delivery of the new 15mm M mount lens. Which while the same optically ( razor sharp and [...]

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How to clean a lens or filter. The safe and stress free way!

These days there is just too much information out there on the net… some of it good and some bad. I did a search before writing this post on lens cleaning and came up with all kinds of stuff. So I contacted our friends at Schneider optics for their take and Hans our Zeiss trained [...]

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Do I need a slim filter for my wide angle DSLR lens?

We get asked this question everyday. Generally if your lens is 20mm or wider on a full size chip DSLR then yes a slim filter will be needed to avoid vignetting. On 1.25-1.3 crop factor cameras a slim filter is usually not needed until we get to around the 10-12mm mark. But this can vary [...]

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Using filters on your Canon G7,G9 or G10

I wanted to travel to Peru this time with a small digi cam rather than worry about all my film and it’s associated gear getting zapped in countless xray machines or getting stolen as we travel and stay in some pretty dodgy places. I must admit it certainly was a lot less stressful. Ok now… [...]

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Is this a cheaper way to a digital body for your M lenses?

The Panasonic GI has finally started arriving to our distant shores and looks like it is going to be another winner for them. But what has got my interest is the new Micro four thirds mount which with an adapter from Novoflex is able to take almost any Leica or Voigtlander M mount lens. If [...]

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