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08.31.2009 9:40 pm

Rumors Swirling about new Canon EOS Camera

Canon is releasing at least one new camera, soon, as in like any minute now.  I’ve been following the speculation on Canon Rumors about this for a while.  The overwhelming chatter on the site is about a camera called a 7D. …

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06.09.2009 12:41 pm

DIY Canon 400mm lens repair

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What do they call it in the corporate world — value added skills? How about a staff photojournalist doing some DIY lens repair on a Canon 400mm 2.8 II? That’s just what I’m up to after one of our older…

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05.31.2009 6:17 pm

iPhone + digital SLR camera = coolness

Anyone that knows me is well aware of my addiction to my iPhone.  I make no apologies for it.  It is what it is.  So when I came across an article about new software that combines the technology of the iPhone…

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01.25.2009 11:40 pm

Robot Aided Inauguration Scene

Photographer David Bergman, a freelancer based in NYC, shot this 1,474 megapixel panoramic scene of President Barack Obama’s Inauguration. It is equal parts cool and creepy that this can be done.  You gotta see it for yourself and then use…

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12.11.2008 2:34 pm

Found flash screws at CSI Camera repair shop in Chesterfield

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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CSI camera repairman Mike Canis’s miracle box.

Gaffer’s tape is the cure-all for ailing camera equipment. It came in handy when my Canon 550 started falling over like an electronic Humpty-Dumpty. Four little screws at the bottom holds the top heavy flash…

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09.18.2008 12:25 pm

The “perfect” staff camera for newspaper photojournalists?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Whether this feature will live or die in future models, either way it’s official, the race to get HD video in a digital SLR camera is here. Canon released their much anticipated digital SLR camera, the EOS 5D Mark II…

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09.04.2008 12:25 pm

What is the sky’s megapixel limit?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

PC World wrote a piece this week about Sony’s planned introduction of the Alpha 900 (which Rob Galbraith JUST posted) 24×36 full-frame camera with a 24.6 megapixel chip. That would put the camera’s megapixel count over Canon’s full-frame 1Ds Mark III and Nikon’s…

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06.25.2008 10:30 pm

Saving photographic grace

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Perfect timing. Two field engineers from Canon Professional Services arrived at the Post-Dispatch today. They are part of a scheduled cleaning clinic to clean and fix minor problems in our stable of Canon cameras and lenses. It’s one of the…

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