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 New Canon PowerShot SX150 IS, ELPH 510 HS and ELPH 310 HS cameras announced: LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 23, 2011 – Today’s tech-savvy consumers expect to have a photo-capturing device always at hand that is adept at producing exquisite images and video without sacrificing quality. Delivering these users’ must-haves, Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital […]

UPDATE – April 20, 2012: Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC Manual Focus lens is in stock!. Check it [HERE] UPDATE – February 15, 2012: Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 ED AS UMC lens is available for Pre-Order!. Click HRE to check it. Note: as mentioned on earlier posts and below at this article, Samyang, Rokinon and […]

UPDATE #2 – September 22, 2011: After more than 1 month, this lens is back in stock again. According to B&H they’re in very limited quantity. If you want one, act quick. Buy it or check stock status clicking here. UPDATE #1 – August 3, 2011: The lens is now IN STOCK in limited quantity […]

Contents: What is a Hot Pixel? Hot Pixels & Remap Function Test your camera right after buying Features Request The case Support us   UPDATE – December, 2012: Holiday Specials The 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III are at the lowest price ever, for limited time. Check them: EOS 5D Mark II (Body Only) […]

Laser beams may be VERY dangerous, not only for your camera, but also (and much more important) for your eyes. Through many years we’ve seen and known several cases of cameras damaged by laser, and much more sad: people injured by them as well. Damage is NOT limited to DSLR with video capturing capabilities. Lasers […]

UPDATE #2 – January 20, 2012: We have almost finished our tests and will post the results of this great lens very soon. We’ll include pictures taken at different f-stops and also video recorded with this lens on a full frame camera. Stay tuned! You can subscribe to our site to receive email notifications when […]

The new Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS APO HSM AF Lens (full frame lens) for Canon and Nikon is now IN STOCK at B&H. This is a much expected, very handy and high quality zoom lens which provides f/2.8 constant aperture through all focal lengths. A very nice and flexible addition to those who […]

Our friends at Robino Films (who already made very nice video tutorials related to video editing) have recently posted a nice overview demo of “Gradiest” for iPad: “Gradiest is an iPad control surface to use with Cineform FirstLight. (Hopefully other color correction software support will follow.) This is a very brief overview of Gradiest. There […]

“A Life Through Signatures” Chris Leising and Ben Majoy, currently working in Boulder, CO, have recently submitted a short to participate in The Young Lions Film Competition, held in Cannes during the Festival week. Guess what? It was shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. But the most important thing is that the competition […]

The new Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS APO HSM AF Lens (full frame lens) for Canon and Nikon is available for pre-order at B&H. This is a very handy zoom lens which provides f/2.8 constant aperture through all focal lengths. A very nice and flexible addition to those who shoot in the 100-300mm range […]

Since the beginning we have been following and supporting all possible campaigns requesting improvements for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and other Canon HDSLR cameras. So we contacted Chuck Westfall at Canon USA on this regard (read below). On April 21 James Drake posted a VERY interesting article: How YOU can change the Canon […]

More than two years ago, we started the “5D Mark II Team” blog with the purpose of helping and supporting all possible campaigns to encourage all Canon users to request improvements for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II via firmware update (especially “full manual control”, and later “standard 24/25/30p modes”). We even posted, long ago, […]

UPDATE: May 10, 2011 – Tim Kang from TSK Pictures has posted a preset file for Adobe Premiere CS5: As those of you that shoot DSLR video with Canon cameras may know, Technicolor (the big name movie post-production facility) released a new Canon picture style to aid in post production toning. You can download their […]

In 2010, Elcomsoft, a software development company with headquarters in Russia, claimed to find a vulnerability in Canon Original Data Security System. Check their press release: Canon Original Data Security System Vulnerability. But today Elcomsoft has also claimed to find a vulnerability in Nikon authentication system: Nikon Image Authentication System Vulnerability It is hard to underestimate […]