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  OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 01.09.2010. A woman is sitting at the bar of a dimly-lit cafe. Lost in thoughts, she doesn’t notice the glass of wine the bartender places before her. From a distance, a photographer tries to capture her mood. He brings her face, which is leaning toward her phone, into focus. Everything around her becomes [...]

World’s Smallest 600mm Telephoto Zoom Lens and 80-300mm Equivalent Lenses Deliver Both Extreme Portability and Optimal HD Movie Recording CENTER VALLEY, Pa., August 31, 2010 – Olympus today announces two new lenses to its Micro Four Thirds lens family: the M.ZUIKO® DIGITAL ED 75-300 MM F4.8-6.7 and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150MM F4.0-5.6. Both lenses feature [...]

Hamburg, 31 August 2010 – The remarkable PEN camera range is already a firm favourite with design enthusiasts and now Olympus has a special treat in store. Two exclusive kits for the flagship E-P2 feature a mouth-watering selection of matching accessories, all in elegant black. In addition to the sleek black version of the E-P2 [...]

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 24.08.2010. This year’s visitors to the Carl Zeiss booth at photokina will be able to touch, test and even walk through high-quality lenses. The optical experts want to make an encounter with the world ofCarl Zeiss something to remember.  “We will present new lenses and, for the first time, accessories at photokina. You’ll have to [...]

  ELMSFORD, NY, COPENHAGEN, TOKYO, and STOCKHOLM, August 23, 2010 – Mamiya and Phase One, leaders in open platform medium format digital camera systems and solutions, and Profoto, the light shaping company, today announced the Mamiya/Phase One V-Grip Air. This is the first product resulting from these companies’ collaboration. The Mamiya/Phase One V-Grip Air is [...]

  Cosina today announced a new lens in their family of M-mount lenses: the Voigtlander Heliar Classic 75mm f/1.8. An update to their excellent Color Heliar 75mm f/2.5, this version of the lens adds an M-mount (the original was Leica Thread Mount and had to use an adaptor on M-mount cameras) and is just about [...]

Really Right Stuff, makers of some the best camera accessories on the planet, have just announced that the BS2-L plate is in stock and available for purchase. For those of you who do not know what an L-plate is, an L-plate is mounted on the tripod socket on your camera body. The plate allows you [...]

  COPENHAGEN, August 9, 2010 – Phase One has launched a survey designed to better understand the needs and preferences of all Expression Media owners. Information gathered will be used in planning future product development. Expression Media is a leading digital asset management application used to catalog and organize large numbers and varieties of digital [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – AUGUST 2, 2010 – Unified Color Technologies, the experts in high dynamic range imaging (HDR), today announced the launch of 32 Float, the industry’s first HDR-specific plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop®that brings 32-bit color controls and editing tools to Photoshop users. With 32 Float, photographers have complete control over images in the full 32-bit color [...]

“This year from September 21st to 26th, the largest photography trade fair in the world, which takes place every two years in Cologne, will provide the perfect backdrop for presenting the outstanding work of the 2009 Hasselblad Masters: Inspired by the theme of “Emotion”, the ten winners have produced some exceptional photography. The results will [...]