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  • ZEISS announces ‘no compromise’ Otus 55mm F1.4

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    ZEISS has announced the Otus 1.4/55, a premium manual focus ‘normal’ lens for full frame SLRs. It’s the first in a new line of lenses aimed at uncompromising professional photographers, with a price tag to match – €2,940 or US$ 3,999 (excl. VAT). According to Zeiss it’s named Otus after a type of owl known for its excellent vision in darkness. On the technical side, it uses a Distagon design that’s unusually complex for this class of lens, and uses 12 elements in 10 groups to minimise aberrations even when shooting at maximum aperture.  

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Loom for iOS updated with RAW support

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    Photo organization app Loom is fairly new on the scene but it is already turning heads and getting a plenty of positive reviews. Loom’s latest update has improved its user interface to better reflect iOS 7’s new aesthetic and also allows for RAW photo uploading. Click through to read more on connect.dpreview.com.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Images from the past: Circular snapshots from the Kodak 1

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    The first consumer point-and-shoots didn’t have art effect modes or face detection smile-shutters. They looked like the Kodak 1, a leather-encased box with a key to wind the film, a shutter release and not much else. Introduced to the public in 1888, each Kodak 1 contained a roll of film with 100 exposures. The National Media Museum owns a collection of prints from these first consumer ‘compacts.’ Click through to take a look at a set of these early snapshots.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • What The Duck #1438

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    We’ve been fans of Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ for years. ‘WTD’ is one of the best satirical comic strips in the world, and it’s published here every week, as well as being included in our weekly newsletter. Barbed, topical and always amusing, we hope you enjoy WTD as much as we do. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Ten items you should have in your camera bag

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    What’s in your camera bag? A camera (hopefully) and maybe a lens or two, but that’s probably not everything that you need. In this article we’ll be looking at ten items that deserve a place in every photographer’s kit bag, whatever sort of photography you enjoy doing. Click through for the list.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxOMark investigates lenses for the Nikon D7100

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    Our friends and collaborators over at DxOMark have recently been looking into how lenses score on specific cameras, and the latest model they’ve examined is Nikon’s 24 MP APS-C flagship, the D7100. The article looks at no fewer than 126 lenses, and gauges the advantage of the D7100’s higher pixel count and lack of a low-pass filter compared to the 16MP D7000. As a bonus, there’s also an assessment of how the imaging performance of Nikon SLRs has improved over the last decade. Click through for the link.   

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • PhotoPlus Expo announces presenters for 30th anniversary show

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    PDN PhotoPlus Expo celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The annual conference and tradeshow, held at the Javits Center in New York, will feature a lineup of more than 130 presenters taking part in keynotes, seminars and panel discussions with topics range from creative techniques to making a living as a photographer. The show takes place October 24-26th, and registration is open to the public. Click through to read more.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxOMark investigates lenses for the Nikon 7100

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    Our friends and collaborators over at DxOMark have recently been looking into how lenses score on specific cameras, and the latest model they’ve examined is Nikon’s 24 MP APS-C flagship, the D7100. The article looks at no fewer than 126 lenses, and gauges the advantage of the D7100’s higher pixel count and lack of a low-pass filter compared to the 16MP D7000. As a bonus, there’s also an assessment of how the imaging performance of Nikon SLRs has improved over the last decade. Click through for the link.   

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Adobe accounts hacked, data exposed for 2.9 million customers

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    Cyber attackers breached Adobe’s security recently, compromising data on 2.9 million customers. Data accessed includes ‘customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders,’ according to a company blog post. The attack exposes a weakness in the company’s new Creative Cloud subscription model, which omits the ‘bits-in-a-box’ distribution method in favor of faster access to software downloads through a monthly subscription. Click through for more. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Olympus PEN E-P5 review – just how mighty is the latest PEN?

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    We’ve been shooting with the Olympus PEN E-P5 for some months now and have just completed our review. The arrival of the E-M1 may have grabbed the limelight in recent weeks but the latest PEN deserves its share of the attention. Although it continues the classic PEN look, it shares most of its specifications with the E-M5, which should make it pretty special – but what’s it like to use? Read our review to find out.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)