Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 12 June 2010
For some time now, I’ve been searching for a good quality wide-angle lens. Allen Weitz from B&H recently spent some time with Nikon’s AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm/4G ED VR lens. The first thing you notice about Nikon’s new AF-S 16-35/4G ED VR is its size. Though in no way heavy, and if anything, quite well balanced, the [...]
Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 28 April 2010
Here’s a review of the new Sigma Ultra Wide Angle lens. I’ve been waiting to get a good wide angle lens for landscape photography. It looks like the wait was worth it. Sigma has a press release for their new 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom lens. For those of you who prefer [...]
Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 26 April 2009
Darren Rowse has a good post about the pros and cons of each of these lenses. With the exception of the Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 that came with the Canon Rebel XT when I purchased it years ago, I have two other lenses and both are prime. I have a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 and [...]
Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 11 April 2009
When you want to capture the whole horizon from end to end, and you don’t mind—better yet, you love—distortion, grab a fisheye lens. Developed for weather cameras (among the first was the 1924 “Sky Lens,” designed to capture entire cloud formations), fisheyes are named for their extremely-close focusing, convex-shaped glass elements. Art photographers and other [...]
Posted by: Veronica Lynne on: 24 February 2009
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 17, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging and optics, today introduced two new Tilt-Shift lenses, the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II and the TS-E 17mm f/4L. These two new L series lenses expand the Company’s extensive lens line-up of TS-E lenses giving photographers creative control over perspective and [...]
