Archive for July, 2009



Nikon D90 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S VR DX Nikkor Zoom Lens



Feel so sad for all the passengers including the extraordinary photographer, who kept his cool even in his last moments of life and took this photo. Hats off to him!!!

the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air Frane during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris.

Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable! Photos taken inside the GOL B 737 aircraft that was involved in the crash…..

The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera’s memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.
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These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can be imagined that he was standing during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.


Panasonic DMC-GH1

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In Photography News
14Jul 09

Panasonic DMC-GH1

The Panasonic DMC-GH1 has been greeted with a mixed response – the inclusion of a 14-140mm superzoom lens makes it look pretty expensive compared to its sister model, the G1. However, with its second Micro Four Thirds camera, Panasonic is offering more of a stills/movie hybrid than we’ve yet seen – and the designed-for-video lens is very much part of that. So can one camera offer fully-featured video and first-rate stills? Lars accompanied it up the red carpet to find out. Read our full review here. Given that the lens is an integral part of the camera’s capabilities, Andy subjected the Lumix G HD 14-140mm F4-5.8 OIS lens to its own screentest, to see if it helps justify that high entry price.

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SanDisk

SanDisk has introduced the world’s fastest 32GB SDHC card. It reads and writes at speeds of up to 30 megabytes per second and adheres to the new SD Association Class 10 specification. The card can record up to 160 minutes of 1920×1080 pixels HD videos at 24Mb/s data transfer rate. It will start shipping in August.
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Olympus E-620 Review

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In DSLR
9Jul 09

More reviewOlympus E-620

Olympus has established a tradition of offering very well specified cameras at the entry-level, and was one of the first to offer two cameras in this bracket – the little E-410 and its image-stabilized big brother, the E-510 (later upgraded to the 420 and 520 respectively). Now it has introduced the E-620, a model that will ’sell alongside’ the E-420 and E-520 (in the sense that we suspect it will eventually replace the E-520) as the company’s attempt at a ‘500D-killer’.

And, even by Olympus’s standards of entry-level generosity, it’s not short on toys – including an articulated screen to make full use of its live view system, which itself is one of the better implementations of this feature (from the company that got there first). It’s also got ‘Art’ modes and the ability to shoot in four different aspect ratios – adapted from the features of the more expensive E-30. There’s also in-body Image Stabilization and a level of configurability that is unparalleled in this class. In fact it’s astonishing how much Olympus has crammed into its small dimensions – it’s nearer to the size of the E-4X0 than the E-5X0 series (due in part to use of the small BLS-1 battery), and the E-420 was famously the smallest DSLR in the world.
by Richard Butler and Lars Rehm
Of course, since the E-620 was announced, Olympus has launched the E-P1 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, which shares many features with the E-620 and is still smaller. However, the through-the-lens optical viewfinder and fast, phase-detection autofocus system mean that the E-620 shouldn’t face too much of a threat from its more compact sibling (despite the degree of shared componentry, they’re different cameras that fulfil rather different needs).

More importantly, perhaps, the E-620 seems to address some of the main shortcomings of the E-520 – the viewfinder is slightly larger and has been reworked so that the information panel appears below the view screen, rather than tucked-away off to the right. It also moves on from the old three-point AF system with the introduction of a seven-point version, which includes five cross-type sensors. In fact, the specification of the E-620 is so high that it makes as much sense for us to compare it to Olympus’s semi-pro body, the E-30, as to the company’s existing entry-level models.


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