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Camera recommendatio and for the Christmas season

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, the camera market is definitely maturing, so that now across three of the four major segments there are choices that are going to last a while:
High-end Prosumer for affordable luxury :0)
If you love cameras, then the Canon 5D Mark II looks like the body to drool over. For a long time it was just [...]

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Canon EOD 5D Mark II, Sigma DP2 and Olympus Micro 4/3rds

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Wow, Photokina has been a sea of cool announcements for prosumers including all these new products

Canon 5D Mark II seems like all us Canon folks don’t have to keep crying. Nikon has the incredible D700 and the D300 and now Canon has the 5DII and the 50D. Great preview
Sigma DP2 hopefully will be [...]

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New DSLRs

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

(Finally a reprieve from soccer registration). Photokina is coming and it is just an incredible time to buy a high end SLR. The lower end cameras seem to be a deadend. Although they have 12 megapixels, they are reaching the end of the line in image quality (small lense) and low noise (small sensor), but [...]

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Nikon D700

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Nikon just introduced a full frame camera that is 12MP and will really put heavy pressure on the Canon 5D. Just like the Nikon 300D really trounces the Canon EOS-40D by being fast, so the D700 is going to put pressure on Canon.
Oh why did I go with Canon lenses???

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Next Full Frame Cameras: Canon 5D Mark II, Nikon D700 and Sony too

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Photography

With Nikon’s strong product line and the D60 and D300 and Canon needs to reply (and those of us with Canon lenses are praying). Nikon has doubled its market share in the last two years, so Canon is really in an interesting position (read, they don’t have products to defend share).
Canonrumors.com provides those of us [...]

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