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Mini Canon 1Ds MK II with EF 600mm Lens. So Cute!

Aww…isn’t it cute! The mini Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II body + EF 600mm f/4L IS USM lens is said to be a commemorative model to celebrate 30 million Canon lenses produced since 1987. If dropping $7,000 for the real 1Ds Mark II and another $7,000 for the 600mm L lens is not your kind [...]

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Sigma’s Lightweight 50-150mm f2.8 APO DC Lens

Sigma has announced today a new telephoto lens that will definitely woo many SLR users. The new Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 APO DC is a fast f2.8 telephoto zoom lens that weighs just 27.2oz (770g). That is almost half of the weight of current f2.8 telephoto zoom offerings (such as Sigma’s very own 70-200mm f2.8 DG, [...]

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Transparent Fiber Spheres That Could Replace Lenses

Detecting light has always been the realm of lenses. Much like the retina in our eyes, lenses are limited by direction and field of view. But with the development of a new transparent light-detecting fiber by Professor Yoel Fink of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Research Lab of Electronics in MIT, [...]

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