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Special Report: photokina
New Lenses For 35mm And Digital SLR Cameras
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

As digital SLR cameras grow in popularity, most manufacturers are working to develop additional lenses. An increasing number of the new products--primarily zooms--are designed exclusively for use with digital SLRs with the "APS-C" size sensors employed in most cameras. Such lenses (discussed in more detail later) are usually more compact because they need to...

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Special Report: photokina
New Photo Printers
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

Photo printers remain popular accessories and virtually all new models are PictBridge compliant, capable of printing directly from any PictBridge-compatible digital camera, via a USB cable connection. Some printers retain slots for printing directly from memory cards, great for those who do not yet own a PictBridge-compatible digicam. We're also starting to see a few...

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Special Report: photokina
The 2004 Exhibitions
Grace Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

Photokina is one of the photographic industry's largest and most exciting trade shows and features the very latest developments in photographic and imaging technologies from around the globe. During the course of the show, which lasts about a week, the halls of the convention center become a beehive of activity with business people buzzing around the corporate booths for a...

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Special Report: photokina
The World's Fair Of Imaging Lives Up To Its Reputation
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2005  |  First Published: Jan 04, 2005  | 

Imagine you're a kid with a very sweet tooth in the world's largest candy store. You're allowed to roam around the halls for five days, sampling whatever strikes your fancy. You're also in one of the world's largest slam dancing parties, sharing the space with 100,000 or so other such kids. That's the feeling one can get at photokina, the...

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Trends On Diversity, Power, And Pride Of Workmanship
Roger W. Hicks  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

Education, it is said, is what is left after you have forgotten everything you learned at school. Spotting trends is somewhat the same. You have to study something closely; then try to ignore all the details; then make sense of what you remember.

On this basis, I saw three trends at photokina. The first is that the center of gravity of the whole...

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Tripods--New Materials And Designs
Frances E. Schultz  |  Jan 01, 2005  | 

The best remark I overheard this photokina was, "My tripod, it has three legs." Um, yes. This is one of the problems when you are reviewing new tripods. They all have three legs. But what makes a tripod special is the material it is made of, the way it folds up, or a new design of leg lock. This year I found all three.

Gitzo (distributed by Bogen Imaging...

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Splash From Photokina: Olympus Intros Hi-Speed Flagship OM-D EM-1 Mark II Weatherproof Camera
Ron Leach  |  Sep 19, 2016  | 

Olympus just unveiled their new flagship mirrorless camera, the OM-D EM-1 weatherproof mirrorless camera designed to deliver maximum speed, superior resolution, mobility and high performance for professional photographers. The camera will be sealed for dustproof, splashproof and freezeproof shooting under harsh conditions.

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Summing It Up
Roger W. Hicks & Frances E. Schultz  |  Dec 01, 2002  | 

Summing It Up

Everyone's photokina is different. We look for what interests us; we discover different things by accident; we see (to a considerable extent) what we want to see. Admittedly, we are also helped or hindered by the manufacturers' willingness to tell us...

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Take a Gander at the Massive Tamron 150-600mm Superzoom Lens that Debuted at Photokina
Dan Havlik  |  Sep 27, 2016  | 

We wrote about the new Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (Model A022) lens when it was announced at the beginning of the month but it was only at the photokina show in Germany last week that we got to see this impressive superzoom in person. And man, is it big!

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Take a Look at DJI's Sweet New Ronin-S Stabilizer for DSLRs and Mirrorless Cameras (Shutterbug Video)
Dan Havlik  |  Jan 26, 2018  | 

We got some hands-on time with DJI’s new Ronin-S at the recent CES show in Las Vegas and shot some video of this impressive new stabilizer for DSLRs and mirrorless cameras with DJI’s Patrick Santucci.

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Test Driving the Speedy New Sony A99 II Full Frame Camera at Photokina
Dan Havlik  |  Sep 21, 2016  | 

Sony announced the long-awaited A99 II DSLR-style camera at photokina 2016 this week and Shutterbug was one of a handful of media outlets to get to shoot with a pre-production version of the camera. What was it like? Well, in a nutshell, it was fast!

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The Canon G1 X Mark III Compact Camera Has a DSLR-size Sensor & We Checked It Out at PhotoPlus (VIDEO)
 |  Oct 27, 2017  | 
Shutterbug has been combing the aisles of PhotoPlus Expo in New York City this week, checking out all the hot gear camera making its debut at the show. We stopped by the Canon booth and got a look at the new Canon G1 X Mark III, which squeezes a 24.2MP DSLR-size APS-C sensor inside a compact camera body about the size and weight of the small G5 X, which it resembles.
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The Digital Doing At PMA
Digicams, Printers And Scanners A Plenty
Joe Farace  |  Jun 01, 2003  | 

The Digital Doings At PMA

The Earnest E. Mau Memorial Award
As digital imaging goes mainstream, consumer digicams have become more and more homogenous, with various manufacturers slavishly copying other's more innovative ideas. For those companies who've...

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The Hotly Anticipated Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens at PhotoPlus Expo (VIDEO)
The Editors  |  Oct 28, 2016  | 

In the third in our series of video show reports from PhotoPlus Expo, Shutterbug sat down with Sigma USA’s Jack Howard who showed us the new 85m f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens, which has been getting tons of buzz from wedding, portrait, documentary and other photographers.

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The Megapixel Race Heats Up...
The New Class Of 8Mp Digital Cameras Raise Expectations & Issues
Uwe Steinmueller  |  Jun 01, 2004  | 

Like with all technology driven product segments, "bigger is better" now applies to the digicam marketplace. While 5- to 6-megapixel cameras dominated 2003, this year will be when 8-megapixel cameras battle for supremacy. While the pace of change in the industry has pushed megapixel...

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