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December’s Photo Contest Winner Official

Congratulations go out to Greg Neubauer, winner of last month’s photo contest theme, “By Candlelight.” For winning, Greg will receive a 16×20″ color print from our Online Photo Lab gratis, as it were.

The theme for this month is “Best of the Decade,” we want your best shot on any topic taken between January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2009. The best, most original and technically achieved shot will win this month and be our best of the decade.

And, to make getting us your submissions easier, we’re introducing our new Magic Photo Upload Widget, which you can find on our Monthly Photo Contest Page. No more complicated emailing procedures, just click, upload, and we do the rest. Maybe it isn’t really magic, but it sure is easy.



Olympus Announces E-P2 Micro Four-Thirds Shooter

Olympus E-P2

Olympus E-P2

Olympus today announced their newest MFT shooter, the E-P2. Seeming to be a single step up from the E-P1, it sports many of the same features, adds AF tracking, manual controls to movie mode, a new black finish, and the availability of a sweet tilting LCD viewfinder (an oft criticized “omission” in its very entry-level oriented brother). The body, other than the new finish, will look very familiar to anyone familiar with the E-P1, and with two bodies in the same style I think I can now call it a pedigree.

We’ll have more info soon. Continuing the now beloved tradition of manufacturers everywhere we don’t even get the information on these things until the day they’re out and every tech blog and their brother have already been unable to run the rumors and have the specs up at midnight. Whereas Nick and myself still can’t see clearly for the lack of coffee and now there’s a camera.

Oh! And some lenses! Oly announced a new 9-18mm for the Micro Four-Thirds format, and a new 14-150mm for it as well. I’d say between Panasonic and Olympus this new platform is developing pretty rapidly.

More pictures of this new beastie, including the tilting EVF and the obvious E-P pedigree after th jump.

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Sandisk Ultra, Sandisk Extremes Apparently Popular

American-based Sandisk’s cards (and I’m going on a limb and guessing particularly the Ultra and Extreme III / Extreme IV series cards from them), seem to be quite popular among the readership over at Digital Photography School, with them snagging a notable majority after 2 weeks on the poll.

Survey Results Captured on July 22, 2009

Survey Results Captured on July 22, 2009

And, while it doesn’t hurt our feelings any to see Sandisk doing well, they’re a wonderful company, Roberts should point out these polls shouldn’t dissuade you from Kingston (my card of choice right now, actually), or Lexar (very popular among pro users). All three of those companies produce very reliable cards these days and should be considered equally.




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