Camera Blog

Let’s be honest: despite Canon’s greatnes when it comes to lenses, we always want to see more.  We want updates to the old ones (100-400mm update, anybody?) and we want to see some new and exciting technology put into their offerings; new versions of existing lenses are great, but it has been a while since the magicians engineers have really ‘Wow’ed’ us.

Hopefully that will change with today’s announcement.  Some new innovation in the world of IS is really exciting, and if I’m reading it correctly it looks like this will be able to adapt to movements in a way that in-body stabilization systems won’t be able to do.

More to come, as soon as it is announced!

This is a review of the much-anticipated Sigma DP2 compact camera that was released in May, 2009.

I hope to make it clear in both broad strokes and in great detail why this camera is: revolutionary, a hopeful sign of things to come, a success, and a big steaming pile of compromises.

Please read on for the full review.

Leave it to the New York Times to break the mold and come up with a totally kickass daily photojournalism blog.

The entries so far are rich, interesting, and magnificently presented.  This is definitely going into my daily rotation of sites-to-check-while-bored-at-work.

Olympus just launched a nice little utility that allows you to quickly and easily see what the focal ranges of their lenses mean in real-world terms.

Olympus – Lensfinder

It does a great job on the wide end of showing the distortion in the current lineup of ultra-wide lenses, and mousing over each lens highlights the lens’s range on the scale.

Aside from the specific lenses that are displayed this is applicable in a more general sense to all camera lenses.  I would like to see more options for equivilant focal lengths, however– including APS-C on the scale would be much more helpful.