Nicholas completed a BA in Classical Latin at Ball State in December 2006. He came to Roberts at the end of October 2008 and hasn't looked back.
1:1 reproduction ratio at 18.5″ and even greater when using a Sigma teleconverter.
The full name of this beastie is Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM, which tells us it’ll be equally suited for full-frame and APS-C sensors and auto-focus on Nikon’s budget-line D-SLRs. Oh and it’s a 180mm f/2.8 with optical stabilization.
Check out the full specs on Sigma’s site here and read the press release here.
Looking for a fast prime for your Micro Four Thirds or NEX camera? Sigma’s got two in the works, designed specifically for the smaller formats.
Coming are the 30mm f/2.8 EX DN and 19mm f/2.8 EX DN. One to two stops faster than the kit zooms that typically come with either system, it’ll be exciting to see them in action. And we’re pretty sure that Sigma can make a prime -just recently our Website Manager, Derek, picked up an older Sigma AF 28mm f/2.8 for Nikon and has been pretty much besotted with it.
As for the alphabet soup, the new DN designation stands for “Digital Neo.”
You can read the offical press release here, and the post from Sigma’s blog here.
Freaky, yeah?
While we offer digital infrared conversions through Precision Camera, the service permanently alters the camera and voids the manufacturer’s warranty. A neat post by Jack Howard on Sigma’s blog discusses how the new SD1 and SD15 each have a removable IR filter that sits behind the mount and before the mirror and how that allows SD owners to indulge in a infrared photography with only the addition of an IR pass filter (which filters out the visible spectrum).
The short article contains useful tips for achieving pleasing IR images.
Our friend, Larry Levin, is the Guru and organizer for the What’s Next 2.0 Foto seminar this weekend in Arlington, VA.
Isn’t there something missing? Naw. It’s just in a collapsed state. Similar to the design of Olympus’s M.Zuiko 14-42 I and II, Panasonic’s LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm/F3.5-5.6 ASPH./ POWER O.I.S. stores itself for enhanced portability and compactitude. Yup, compactitude.
This new designation, X, indicates this and the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 45-175mm/F4.0-5.6 ASPH./POWER O.I.S. are electronically focused, you know, like camcorders or point and shoots. The GF3x, when it ships, will be a good, wholesome GF3 bundled with the X 14-42.
More photos after the break.
Here we are. It’s time to look at the Nikon Coolpix P7100. Take a deep breath, folks, and hold on to yer butts.
Before we get to the P7100, let’s rub a peeper over the S6200, S8200, and S100.
The S100 is a touch-screen compact packing a 16MP CMOS sensor, lens specs that look similar to the AW100 (28-140 equiv, f/3.9-4.8), optical image stabilization, and MPO format 3d images. That touch-control screen is a 3.5″ 820,000 dot OLED. Shiny.
The S6200 is a compact sporting a 10x optical zoom (25-250 equivalent, f/3.2-5.8) in a 1″ x 2.3″ x 3.7″ frame. The LCD screen is 2.7″ diagonal and holds 230,000 dots.
The S8200 is a compact SuperZoom -and by Super I mean 14x Optical Zoom (because digital zooming is still kinda baloney) – which makes for a 25-350mm f/3.3-5.9 equivalent lens. Shooting modes like HDR, Easy Panorama, and 1080p HD video all make an appearance. Pictures after the break.
And now we’ll take a look at their newest Coolpix with an integrated projector. Those of you with dull lives and long memories may remember the first Nikon with projector and the video Derek and I generated for it .
Ah, the sweetness of things past.
The S1200pj has a lot more going for it than the initial offering. For one it’ll take video input from an assortment of Apple iProducts – the iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, iPod nano®, and iPod® photo. Pretty much any flat surface can become a 5′ diagonal display for your comicbook reader or any video not streaming via Flash.
Pictures after the break.
Let’s start with the first-for-Nikon all-weather entry. Now Nikonians have a branded option for extreme conditions – the AW100 (in black, blue, or bright-orange) is waterproof to 33 feet, resistant to the chilling extreme of 14F, and impacts from 5 feet. Picutures after the break.
The Pen-Lite should be hitting us in September, along with the VF-3. The VF-3 will feature adjustable brightness and color temperature as well as the ability to rotate 90 degrees. Check it out on Olympus America’s press release.
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