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PENTAX 645D Medium Format Digital SLR Camera Wins EISA

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Aug 252011

645D IS EISA European Professional Camera 2011-2012

GOLDEN, CO. (August 15, 2011)…PENTAX Imaging Systems Division is pleased to announce that the PENTAX 645D medium-format digital SLR camera, first launched in June 2010, was selected as the EISA European Professional Camera 2011-2012 by the prestigious European Imaging and Sound Association. The award was presented in recognition of the camera’s super-fine image quality assured by approximately 40 effective megapixels, exceptional reliability and superb operability.

Sigma Corporation’s 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM lens named the “European Lens for 2011-2012”

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Aug 232011

Sigma Corporation’s 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM lens named the “European Lens for 2011-2012” by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) Photo Awards.

In April of this year, Sigma’s 70-200mm also won the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) “Best Expert Lens” award for its Optic Stabilization (OS) system, and its HSM function that provides smooth and silent auto focusing. 923 70 200 f28 EX DG OS HSM

Leica Oskar Barnack Award – Call for Entries

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Jan 202010

Leica Camera AG, Solms, extends their invitation to submit entries to 600px-Leica_Camera_logo.svg.png their international photography competition for professional photographers, the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’.

Applications from interested photographers will be accepted exclusively online at www.leicaoskar-barnack-award.com between 15 January and 15 March 2010. The competition also includes the awarding of a ‘Newcomer Award’ that addresses all (prospective) professional photographers aged 25 and under.

An international jury awards the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ / ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award’ to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of between ten and twelve images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive. All photo series submitted will be displayed in a specially dedicated online gallery on the Leica website.