Carl Zeiss introduces Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZE Lens
It’s been about a year since premium lens-maker Carl Zeiss introduced the ZE-series lenses with a Canon mount. The Planar T* 1.4/50 and Planar T* 1.4/85 are now complemented with the Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZE, an ultra-wide-angle lens. The new lens is designed especially for architecture and landscape photography. Featuring a 21mm focal length and [...]
Canon EOS 7D – Is it really an EOS 60D or EOS 6D?
The launch of the controversial Canon EOS 7D has generated a huge amount of forum buzz as to where it fits in to the Canon product lines. Marketing departments seems to make abrupt shifts in naming conventions leaving consumers to guess their strategy if they even have one. In Canon’s case, we are left to [...]
New Diana F+ SLR Adapters for Canon EOS Cameras
Vienna, Austria-based Lomographische AG has announced two new adaptors that allow use of the ‘Diana F+’ series lenses on both film and digital SLRs from Canon and Nikon. The Diana camera lineup was manufactured from the 1960s through the early 1970s by Hong Kong’s Great Wall Plastic Factory. Available under different (often a stick-on label), [...]
Canon PowerShot G11 – Tilt and Swivel is back!
Canon has just introduced the latest digital camera in the G-series. Lo and behold! The tilt and swivel LCD screen, long missing since PowerShot G3, is back. The tilt and swivel LCD screen (2.8 inch Vari-angle TFT) allows a photographer to take candid shots from all sorts of angles not possible with a fixed LCD [...]
Canon’s Second Quarter Profit Crushed by Economic Downturn
Canon Inc. said second quarter profit plunged 86 per cent as the global economic downturn weighed on sales of its copy machines, printers and digital cameras while a stronger yen reduced overseas earnings. Canon’s net profit was 15.6 billion yen (US$164 million) for the April-June quarter, down from 107.8 billion yen a year earlier. Revenues [...]
