Think Tank Restrospective camera bag

by Enche Tjin on March 9, 2010

Think Tank Photo introduces Restrospective camera and lens bag, which are simple looking bags with soft and flexible interior, allow you to be blend into environment seamlessly. It is designed for digital SLR camera users, especially photojournalists, wedding photographers, street photographers and travel photographers in mind.

It has various size and two color, black and brown. The smallest size will accomodate DSLR camera with battery grip, plus two to three short lenses. The bigger one will accommodate up to 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. Price: From $99 to $179

Think Tank Restrospective 20 Pinestone color

Think Tank Restrospective 20 Pinestone color

This collection is a blend of old style photography bag (DOMKE) with typical ThinkTank attention to detail and quality.

Competitors:

Boda Bag – Lens bag that is very popular among wedding photographer and portrait shooters. It’s ergonomic is excellent and the latest version is weather sealed.

Domke – Classic old school photography bag

Shootsac – Fashionable lens bag

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Panasonic G2 with touchscreen LCD

by Enche Tjin on March 9, 2010

Recently, Panasonic announces Panasonic G2, successor to revolutionary Panasonic G1, which is the first micro four thirds camera in the market. Panasonic G2 has the same body design with additional movie recording button. At the same time, Panasonic also announces Panasonic G10.

Along the way, Panasonic has released Panasonic GH1. I think GH1, and G10 are transitional or filler products. It is created to give consumers more choices and also an effort to compete in certain price point. Panasonic GF1, an ultra compact camera is another transitional/experimental product which is very successful. We can expect Panasonic introduces GF successor sooner or later.

The improvement from G1 and G2 is more about convenience and movie recording. Image quality for still photography is less likely to be improved since they use the same sensor, however, the processing algorithm are getting better so the G2 is confident to introduce ISO 6400. [click to continue…]

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Becareful if you are shooting wedding with entry level camera

March 7, 2010

A quite funny video I found the other day when browsing Photography Bay website. This video is about a professional wedding photographers got sued by the couple because they feel the quality of the photos are not good enough. Furthermore, the judge brings up that the alleged pro photographer was using Canon Rebel XTi, an [...]

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Ricoh GXR new lens blocks announced: P10 and A12

March 3, 2010

At PMA, Ricoh announces two new lens block thats might keep Ricoh fans from jumping to another system such as micro four third system.
Here is an excerpt from Ricoh press release:
Camera unit RICOH LENS P10 28-300 mm F3.5-5.6 VC* (name tentative)

With an original Ricoh noise reduction function and a back-illuminated CMOS sensor, this camera [...]

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Sigma enters the high quality lens market

March 3, 2010

I read an interesting interview with Kazuto Yamaki, Sigma Chief Operating Officer via Imaging Resource and I find it is very interesting, especially because I used several Sigma lenses (Read Reviews).
Before, Sigma lenses are regarded as inferior lenses to manufacturer lenses. Their business strategy is to produce very cheap lens and let the retailer bundled [...]

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Digital Camera trends 2010

February 24, 2010

PMA 2010, the great photography exhibition has just finished. From the show, we can get an idea of how the digital camera trend for 2010. From reading news and photographic equipments that has been launched, I noticed some trends for digital cameras this year. Some of them is continuing trend from 2009.
1. Mirrorless camera steals [...]

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Samsung EX1 / TL500 – advanced compact that sets the new standard

February 22, 2010

Samsung EX1 / TL500 is advanced camera designed for serius amateur photographer in mind. However, casual shooters will also benefited by the qualities of this digital compact camera.
When I look at EX1 picture  and spec, I can’t help impressed with it. It is a step up from the popular Panasonic LX3. LX3 is famous for [...]

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Five new lenses from Sigma

February 21, 2010

Sigma just announces five new lenses for Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Pentax DSLR cameras. Three of them are high-quality and compatible with full frame camera. Two other are compatible with crop frame camera.
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 OS
The original Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 is popular among sports and portrait photographer, and now it just getting better with OS [...]

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What to expect from PMA tradeshow 2010?

February 19, 2010

PMA trade show this year won’t be as interesting because three major photography manufacturers: Canon, Leica and Pentax are not participating. However, there are still some new stuff that we can expect:
1. Sony and Samsung to prepares their 3D compact camera: News and rumor from Photo Rumors.
2. Will Samsung introduces their advanced compact with low [...]

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Canon T2i/550d vs Canon 50D

February 17, 2010

Canon recently releases Canon EOS T2i / 550d. It is an update on Canon popular beginner camera line. On the other hand, Canon 50D has been in the market for almost one and a half year now. But why you might still want to consider Canon 50D?
Canon 50D is an advanced Canon DSLR camera. It [...]

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