Author Archives: Jay Garrett

The 10 mp touting E-3 is a friendly little critter. Most of the shooting options rely on the front and rear dials to control.  These control aperture and shutter speed – until you press a modifier button and then they control other shooting options.  These are pretty easy to get to grips with without doing [...]

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There is a shop that has a lens that makes the Sigma one that featured on this very site look positively weedy! It is a Canon 1200mm, F5.6 USM lens. They’ve been around since 1993, but are made to order at the rate of about 2 a year – There is less than 20 out [...]

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Those of you that have been into this kinda thing for more than a year will probably recognise this thing. It was shown off at last year’s PMA and it’s here again. It’s designed to attach to your camera’s flash hot shoe and record the GPS information as you shoot. It will then shove all [...]

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Cor! Look at that! Well, that was my reaction. Say “hello big boy” to Sigma’s new APO 200-500 f2.8 ultra telephoto zoom lens. Weighing in at 16kg (35-pounds), it’s the world’s first to offer a F2.8 aperture at 500mm focal length. Four SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass elements provide excellent correction for all types of [...]

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Here’s a couple of new offerings from Sony – the A300 and A350. The A350 boasts 14.2MP and is able to blast away at 2.5fps in continuous shooting.  The A300 can notch up 3fps. The DSLR-A300 kit with a DT 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 standard zoom lens will ship in April for about $800. The DSLR-A350 camera [...]

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