Archive for February, 2009

Canon Announces Two New Tilt-Shift Wide Angle Lenses

Canon has introduced two new tilt-shift wide angle lenses!  These new lenses are the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L.  
The TS-E 24mm is a replacement “II” version of the original introduced in 1991.   Canon reports it has significantly improved operability with low distortion, consistent image quality, and reduced chromatic aberration. [...]

Backing Up Your Photos – Try SyncToy

If you’re like me, you have an abundance of digital photos filling up hard drives… many hard drives.   There are several different ways photographers are dealing with this.   The issue is not just data storage.   For all the data that you store, you also need to back up that data.  (If you’re [...]

Other Brand Lenses and Warranty Implications

I’ve run across an interesting dilemma: Whether to use lenses that are not of the same brand as my DSLR camera body.   I was recently told by a Canon rep that if I use a non-Canon lens (such as a Tamron, Sigma, etc.) on a Canon body, this voids my warranty.   In my [...]