Canon announce EOS 60D and 4 new lenses
Busy time for new gear. After Nikons recent announcements, this morning Canon announced 4 new L series lenses as well as a new DSLR, the 60D. Lot’s of excitement around these new lenses, especially the new 400mm f2.8 which weighs 1.5kg LESS than the old version – very impressive! Also of note is the new [...]
Pre order the Nikon D3100, 85mm 1.4 AFS etc
Pre-orders are appearing! Quick heads up for anyone in the market for any of Nikons latest products, namely the 14mp D3100 DSLR which is also the first from the company to shoot 1080p video, or any of the new lenses including the 85mm 1.4 AFS and 24-120 f4 VR. If you want to get your [...]
New Nikon 200-400 VRII announced & pre-order
Take an already legendary lens, add the latest version of VR and some Nano coating and what do you have…? A great lens made even better! albeit a ‘tiny’ bit bigger and heavier (oh, and of course more expensive). Nikon have released a handful of test images, some of which are below, but I’m not [...]
Nikon D3s firmware update v1.01
Well, it’s only been out for a brief period but Nikon have already upgraded the firmware for any owners of it’s new high ISO king. If you are lucky enough to own one of these then get yourself the latest firmware as it offers several improvements over the original firmware. A list of which and [...]
Nikon 24mm 1.4 AFS and 16-35 f4 VR announced
There here…well, pretty much! Nikon has announced it’s up coming additions to it’s lens line up in the shape of the new 24mm 1.4 AFS and 16-35 f4 VR – so catering to the needs of wide and semi-wide angle shooters out there. There are some sample images and product brochures available for your viewing [...]
New Nikon D3, D3x, D700 and D300s firmware
Quick heads up for any D3, D3x, D700 or D300s shooters out there. Nikon have released new firmware updates for these bodies (v2.02 for the D3, v1.02 for the D700 and v1.01 for the D3x and D300s), offering improvements to Auto ISO implementation as well as support for larger capacity memory cards to name two things. Links [...]
