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March 3, 2010  News, News and Reviews

NatureScapes.net Live Radio – With Greg Down ...

Re-listen to the podcast on LensFlareLive by NatureScapes Publisher Greg Downing and Senior Technical Editor EJ Peiker. Truly an interesting concept and great idea. The description of the show is :”Nature, Landscape Photography, Bird Photography, Outdoor Photography, Trave ...

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February 21, 2010  News, News and Reviews

New ultrawide SIGMA 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM

The widest non fisheye lens ever made. Sigma releases a extreme wide zoom starting at 8mm and ending at 16mm – The angle of view is an impressive 121 degrees. The lens features a built in lenshood and is only suitable for APS-C sized sensors. Aiming to capture the wide ang ...

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February 21, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Sigma 50-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM launched

Today Sigma released a OS (optical stabilization) version of their ever popular 50-500mm super zoom lens. The new lens features besides the 4 stop stabilization, 4 SLD (Special Low Dispersion) to provide “excellent correction of colour aberration” as Sigma writes in ...

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February 16, 2010  News and Reviews, Reviews

Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro review

No other lens is made for a more specific task than the macro lens. The Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro is indeed made for one thing in mind. Allowing the user to capture 1:1 magnification which also gives it the name “Macro”. Sigma makes quite a number of macro lenses ...

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February 10, 2010  News, News and Reviews

LensCoat review at NatureScapes.Net

LensCoat – The camouflage stuff you´ll see close to every nature photographer use gets reviewed at NatureScapes.net. There´s no doubt LensCoat is well worth the money. Not only does it help hide your bulbous equipment, it also protect it from dents and bruises. Read what ...

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February 9, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Apple Aperture 3 released

Today Apple released their popular photo editing and organizing software Aperture 3. The developers promise a new things and features for example brushes and creatable presets. For the more relaxed consumers things like face detection and GEO tagging are welcomed features. Read ...

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February 8, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Canon EOS 550D unveiled

As of today Canon ads another DSLR to their already wide lineup. The 550D adds another punch in the mega pixel race boosting a total of 18mpix at 3.7 frames per second.

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February 2, 2010  News, News and Reviews

NatureScapes.net 2009 Images of the Year

Setting incredibly high and new standards the NatureScapes.net 2009 Images of the Year competition has ended and the winners were found. Enjoy the stunning images of Charles Glatzer, Robert Sabin and many more talented photographers. If you thought the BBC equivalent was good ...

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February 1, 2010  News and Reviews, Reviews

Hardigg Storm Case IM2600 review

The HardiggStorm Case IM2600 is one of the safest ways to store your camera equipment. Hardigg is based in USA and has over 50 years experience in building the toughest, most rugged and reliable hardcases aiming to fulfill the task of storing gear safely for military, scientis ...

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January 27, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Kenko updates teleconverter lineup

Nikon is not the only company to update their teleconverter lineup. The converters from Kenko who’s probably the most used non-original brand updates their complete lineup from the Pro-300 version to the standard 1.4 and 2.0 MC versions.

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January 20, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 : Winner st ...

Evidently it had to happen. The previous mentioned winner photographer (read about it HERE ) who was under the investigation of using a trained wolf has been stripped of the prestigious award.

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January 20, 2010  News, News and Reviews

Canon USA launches short film contest

The new thing in still photography is ironically videography. And Canon is definitely leading the pack when it comes to video features with all of the high-end model, setting the standard in what quality and finesse you currently can achieve from a digital single lens reflex ca ...

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