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Frozen water - at 1/10th of a second?

WE spent a great week shooting mainly in Vaucluse, the district to the east of Avignon in the south of France, with Shirley using the 18-250mm Tamron f/3.5-6.3 lens exclusively. One object of this was to get some more example photos for a short article on the lens in our forthcoming Photoworld magazine.

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Posted on 18th July 2007, 03:21 pm under Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Photo Techniques

The Haoda split-image/microprism screen

HAODA FU has been supplying alternative focusing screens for the 5D and A100 since 2006 and for many other makes before this. While the Alpha system DSLRs are not intended to have user-changeable screens, it is relatively easy and risk-free.

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Posted on 9th June 2007, 12:31 pm under Accessories - Minolta/Sony, Cameras (DSLR)

Tamron 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II IF-LD

THE NEW Tamron 18-250mm has some importance to Alpha system users. It is almost certainly the optical basis for the forthcoming Sony SAL 18-250mm version, and as a APS-C 13.7X zoom with an equivalent 27-375mm (in full frame terms) range is uniquely suited to the SSS-enabled Dynax 5D, 7D and Sony Alpha 100

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Posted on 16th May 2007, 07:43 pm under Lenses - Alpha Mount