Tweet Vincent Laforet sent us a note letting us know about a brand new section on his blog all about gear and it is pretty cool. He and his team have spent a lot of time working on this new feature and it is impressive. They’ve broken it down into several categories and it...
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Tweet The public sessions for the Canon EXPO 2010 start today. Yesterday was for VIPs (hmmm… how do i get into that group?) and today the show opens for everyone. I’m excited to be able to be there! It is a one block walk from my hotel and i’ll be updating this post thru...
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Tweet This is our first part of the planet5D coverage of the Canon Expo 2010 – we’ll be in NYC tomorrow and Friday providing additional coverage. Today, Canon sent out a press release giving an overview of what is being presented. The theme of this show which Canon puts on only once every 5...
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Tweet Carl Zeiss (a planet5D sponsor) has announced a new “moderate wide angle” lens – the Distagon T* 1,4/35. I’ve got a lot to learn about lenses, but the sample image from this looks darn awesome. Here’s the Zeiss PR: OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 01.09.2010. A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost...
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Tweet Redrock not so quietly showed off a new line of HDSLR rigs called the “RedRockOps” rigs this afternoon at the Shane Hurlbut HDSLR Bootcamp. As you can see from the images below, it is a line of specialty rigs with camouflage markings. I spoke with Brian Valente from Redrock just after they presented...
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Tweet This is way off topic from the normal Canon cameras we cover around here, but it was too cool for me to pass up! A program I have on my iMac is called earthDesk and it displays a compilation image of the cloud layer over the earth that is updated every 3 hours…...
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Tweet Now that the Canon EOS 60D has been announced, everyone will want to know where it fits in the Canon HDSLR lineup as well as what this new camera brings to the party. The 60D replaces the 50D in the Canon line, but fits between the Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews) and the Canon...
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Tweet The Canon EOS 60D has finally arrived as rumors predicted and as we also showed some spy shots earlier, there is also the rumored articulating screen as well as some cool new features! From Canon: “For the first time on an EOS camera, the EOS 60D DSLR boasts a three-inch Vari-Angle Clear View...
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Tweet Think your Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews) is weather resistant? Well, we can see from this video sent to us by planet5D friend Barry Anderson that a 5D2 sure can’t survive flames (especially when the flames are intentional). This also seems to be the month of burning as PetaPixel had a story...
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Tweet Nicole S. Young is a photographer, a frequent tweeter, and now an author – she’s written the new book “Canon 7D: From Snapshots to Great Shots”. I’ve followed her on twitter for quite a while and she’s a fellow iStocker (someone who sells photos on iStockPhoto.com) (check out her portfolio on iStock!). When...
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