Due to a great planetary alignment I have had a chance to quickly look at the new EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM lens in the flesh on an EOS M camera. Like all the EOS M system lenses the build quality is impressive, I really think Canon needs to look at the EOS M lenses …
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Expanding range of EF-M lenses Canon has augmented the range of lenses for the EOS M camera with a new 11-22mm wide-angle lens. 11-22mm on the APS-C size crop sensor means it is equivalent to an 18-35mm zoom on a full-frame camera. The new lens gains the accolade of being the first ultra-wide angle lens …
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Firmware updates for many EOS-1D series cameras Hidden in all the noise of lens mugs and millions of lenses Canon also pushed out a bunch of firmware updates for professional EOS-1D cameras in the last few days too.
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Canon lens cups While reading the press info about the 90 million EF lenses production milestone, a thought crossed my mind. What about the lenses that Canon doesn’t count in it’s production total. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada a promotional item was included in the Canon photographers gift pack, an EF 70-200mm f/4L …
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10 million more EF lenses in just 9 months Canon has a history of marking production milestones with press announcements and today they have hit 90 million lenses. It was only August last year that they broke the 80 million mark, so it’s clear that despite global recession, and less than stellar performance in the …
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It’s been a while since rumours first appeared and then months – many month – of samples out in the hands of working professionals but now today Canon has finally launched the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x lens. One benefit of the “extended” launching and field testing process is that Canon’s various websites …
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Uploading pictures to Canon’s Project1709 simpler for Mac users Today Canon has finally released an update to it’s Beta Project1709, and for me the most important item is the availability of an uploader for the Mac OS. Since the start of the Project1709 there’s been a windows uploader that would automatically upload images from selected …
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Three EOS cameras, a lens and a printer win awards The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) have announced the winning products for their 2013 awards, and Canon have picked up a total of five awards this year out of forty categories of awards given by TIPA. Twenty seven member magazines and the Camera Journal Press Club …
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