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  • Lens reviews update: DxOMark data for Nikon-fit full frame wideangles

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    DxOMark has just reviewed Nikon’s latest budget full frame wideangle lens, the AF-S Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED. As part of our ongoing collaboration we’ve added the test results to our lens comparison widget, along with other Nikon-fit full frame wide zooms. You can compare it to its predecessor, the AF Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF ED, the AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR, the legendary AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, and the Tokina AT-X 16-28mm f/2.8 Pro FX. Click through to see the comparisons in our lens widget, and for the full data on DxOMark.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Lens reviews update: DxOMark data for Nikon-fit full frame wideangles

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    DxOMark has just reviewed Nikon’s latest budget full frame wideangle lens, the AF-S Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED. As part of our ongoing collaboration we’ve added the test results to our lens comparison widget, along with other Nikon-fit full frame wide zooms. You can compare it to its predecessor, the AF Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF ED, the AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR, the AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, and the Tokina AT-X 16-28mm f/2.8 Pro FX. Click through to see how they compare on both DX and FX cameras, with links to view the results in our lens widget, and for the full data on DxOMark.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Adobe releases subscription-only Photoshop CC

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    Adobe has released the latest version of Photoshop: CC for ‘Creative Cloud’. It’s the first to be made available solely though the company’s controversial subscription-only model, that requires users to pay an ongoing monthly charge of £17.58 /$ 19.99 for access to the software. New features include a revised ‘Smart Sharpen’ function, a ‘Camera Shake Reduction’ filter, and the ability to apply Camera Raw edits as layers. The latest versions of other Creative Cloud apps such the video editor Premier Pro are also now available to download.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon EOS Rebel SL1/100D studio samples and good light samples gallery

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    Just Posted: Canon EOS Rebel SL1/100D studio samples and good light samples. We’ve just got a production version of Canon’s miniaturized DSLR and, as part of the process of reviewing it, have shot our standard studio scene. We’ve also taken it out to see how it performs away from the studio lighting and have put together a series of daylight samples. Click through to see how it fares.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • MetaRaw plugin offers Photoshop and Elements users broader Raw support

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    The Plugin Site has created the MetaRaw plugin for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that allows the conversion of Raw files not supported by the associated version of Adobe Camera Raw. The MetaRaw plugin offers access to three Raw conversion methods – ACR, DNG Converter or its own, dcraw-based converter. It also allows Elements 10 and 11 users to access ACR’s lens correction and chromatic aberration tools.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxOMark investigates lenses for the Canon EOS 700D / Rebel T5i

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    Our friends and collaborators over at DxOMark have been looking into how lenses score on specific cameras, and most recently they’ve been examining Canon’s latest SLR, the EOS 700D / Rebel T5i. In an ongoing article they investigate how 130 lenses from Canon, Carl Zeiss, Samyang, Sigma, Tamron and Tokina measure up on the 700D’s 18MP sensor. As this is essentially a variant of the sensor used in every Canon APS-C camera since the EOS 7D in 2009, the article could be of interest to a lot of Canon users. Click through for the links.    

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Sigma UK competition: win a 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM lens

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    The Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM zoom lens has garnered a huge amount of interest from our readers, as the fastest zoom lens ever made for SLRs. UK residents can now win one courtesy of Sigma UK’s latest competition, along with a two day landscape photography workshop in Dartmoor with pro photographer Lea Tippett. For a chance of winning, submit your best landscape photo, along with 80 words saying how you’d benefit from the workshop. The closing date for entries is 31st July 2013: click through for full details.  

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Accessory Review: GigaPan Epic Pro

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    The GigaPan EPIC Pro is an affordable motorized panorama head for DSLRs, built to create high-resolution images from multiple frames. in this article, Ireland-based landscape photographer Carsten Krieger takes the device out into the field to put it through its paces. Click through for a link to the full review. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • What The Duck #1404

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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. Click through for this week’s strip.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon EOS 700D / EOS Rebel T5i review updated with lens data

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    We’ve updated our review of the Canon EOS 700D / EOS Rebel T5i with lens data and analysis of the camera’s 18-55mm STM F/3.5-5.6 IS kit zoom, with an example of its AF performance in video mode. As this lens is about the only change of significance with the EOS 700D release, we thought we’d incorporate our findings directly inside the review for your convenience. Click through to find out what this updated kit zoom offers.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)