[REVIEW:] Fashion Show Season 2: GF-1 with Legacy Lenses – The Primes – Toad (Shuttertalk)
Well, the original Fashion Show featuring large Nikon zooms was pretty much a disaster – both looks-wise and usability-wise.
Nevertheless, I wasn’t quite ready to give up on using legacy lenses on the GF-1 just yet – particularly in the face of some of Kombi’s successes in this avenue. — Toad
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[REVIEW:] Pentax SLR Camera Review – K200D With 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 Lens With Shake Reduction – pongg yungg
Like any added abecedarian photographer, I’ve been application point-and-shoot agenda cameras for years. I’ve consistently capital to get a agenda SLR camera but it’s alone now that I got the assumption and the money to assuredly get myself one. I apprehend bags of reviews and accessories on which agenda SLR cameras would be best ill-fitted for a abecedarian such as myself, and I assuredly acclimatized on accepting a Pentax SLR camera, the K200D. — pongg yungg
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[REVIEW:] Zeiss Distagon 21mm – Zig (Shuttertalk)
There is a long story to this but I won’t bore you with it here.
After some grinding sacrifices, saving hard, getting rid of the Canon16-35mm f2.8L MkII(ouch) and simply taking a step of faith, I received a Distagon 21mm f2.8 in the post today.
I, probably like yourselves, have read all sorts of exuberant, well- and ill-informed hormonal responses to this lens that range from informative to knee-jerk mouthings of greed, envy and sour grapes that someone got the lens before someone else did.
I tried it out for an hour tonight and truly my most sensible and restrained summation includes so many superlatives that I fear I’ll be deemed as emotional as anyone else. — Zig
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[REVIEW:] Tech Review: Olympus E-P2 w/ 17mm f/2.8 & VF-2 – 35 Photography
It’s the vector that modern photography is taking … digital. Recently, over the last 4 months all of the photo labs in my area have either gone out of business or went dry (which means they no longer develop in house). As such, I was having to send off all my rolls of film for up to two weeks to get developed. Much to my dismay, I came to the decision to move into a strictly digital setup. My main camera is a Nikon DSLR so digital wasn’t new to me. Over the course of a week, I sold all my film-based cameras (other than my Polaroid land Camera 450) and bought the Olympus E-P2 bundle w/ 17mm f/2.8 Prime M. Zuiko lens, and the VF-2 electronic view finder (EVF). — three five photography
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[REVIEW:] Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm 1:4-5.6 review – Andy Westlake (dperview)
The M Zuiko Digital 14-150mm F4-5.6 is Olympus’s fourth lens for its Pen series cameras, and the first to venture into the telephoto region. Its 10.7x zoom ratio places it firmly in ‘superzoom’ territory, covering a very useful 28-300mm equivalent range, and making it ideal for general purpose ‘walkaround’ or travel use. (Indeed Olympus says that with it on your camera ‘you will never miss a photo opportunity’, perhaps begging the question as to why the company still makes other lenses.) — Andy Westlake
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[REVIEW:] Sony NEX-3 / NEX-5 Review – Richard Butler (lens section by Andy Westlake) – dpreview
Ever since Panasonic and Olympus created their Micro Four Thirds mirrorless system, all the talk has been about what the other players in the market will do. Micro Four Thirds has been steadily building its market share, seemingly without response from the three companies that account for over 80% of DSLR sales (Canon, Nikon and Sony), to the extent that ‘Micro’ risks becoming the generic term for these mirrorless systems (‘When will Brand X make a Micro camera?’ has become a fairly common thread title on our forums). — Richard Butler (lens section by Andy Westlake)
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[REVIEW:] Nikon D5000 Lenses And DSLR Digital Camera Review – Fur Music
Nikon have been quite well-known in the production of their cameras, making the best digicam for the people to take pleasure in with. They have been enhancing its uses and improving it extra for people’s satisfaction, giving them the nice footage for their memories to be cherished for an extended time. Individuals have by no means been glad on what they have. That’s the reason Nikon is continuing its work in enhancing its product to fulfill their customer’s likes at the moment line. — Fur Music
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[REVIEW:] Panasonic 7-14mm f/4.0 – Matthew Robertson (thewsreviews.com)
The Panasonic 7-14, aka Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0, is a little lens with big shoes to fill. It’s the second lens with those specifications, following up on the immensely capable Olympus 7-14, which I reviewed almost eighteen months ago; I’ve also written up a brief head-to-head comparison. — Matthew Robertson
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[REVIEW:] Tamron AF 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II LD [IF] Asph. VC macro – photozone
There’s not only a mega-pixel war out there, we’re also seeing a race for the highest zoom ratio in lens land. Tamron has always been at the forefront of providing extreme range zoom lenses. The relatively new Tamron 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 does already provide a class-leading performance (class-leading = “good”) but it falls a little short in one important aspect: it may provide the highest zoom ratio (13.9x) of the industry combined with decent quality but it does not offer any optical image stabilization. — photozone.de
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[REVIEW:] Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 L II USM Lens Review – The-Digital-Picture
It takes a lot of glass to be that fast – and it sure looks nice. It is especially attractive with that red ring around the end of it. 
The biggest downside to the original Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 L USM Lens was the very slow focusing speed. If you were shooting portraits, it didn’t matter. But, a lens this fast begs to be used for indoor action sports. — The-Digital-Picture
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